TRENTON, Ga. – The clock starts as soon as Thomas Terek jabs his boot spike into the telephone pole.
Thirty-five seconds of flying splinters later he is 35 feet in the air, frantically fastening his safety lines.
At 44 seconds in, he has his fluorescent orange wrench out, loosening an insulator post from the power pole.
At a minute-15, he places the insulator into a basket, which his team members lower and raise with a new unit in 10 seconds flat.