This email that I got one time may be of some interest:
The telephone people send crews to other states in times of crisis to help
restore services, just like the Power Company does.
A lineman from Michigan was working here in Alabama, when he was sent to
repair a pedestal which had been destroyed by a 'Bush Hog'.
Upon getting to the site, he called in to the office on the radio and said
he could probably get the wires put back together, and get a new pedestal
installed, but that he was not getting out of the truck until they got some other backup to the scene. "I don't know what a bush hog is,
and I don't see one around anywhere, but after seeing what it did to that
pedestal, I ain't getting out of the truck till you get someone here to
watch my back!"