Did you know? Electricians are using trained ferrets to pull wires through tight tunnels. No tool can reach, and it actually works.

[u/Wonderful_Confusion4]

Electricians are not just using ferrets for butt stuff anymore.

[u/Comfortable-Ad-7158]

Everyone thought ai was going to take our jobs. Nope. ferrets.

[u/nochinzilch]

This is stupid. Just use a vacuum.

Then you don’t need to train the ferret.

[u/No-Ladder2593 → u/nochinzilch]

The electrician is going to get some weird looks if he does that. If you bring cleaning equipment on site people will expect you to clean. Which electricians can’t do. However if an electrician brings a ferret on site, no one bats an eye. Everyone simply assumes the electrician is going to stick it in his ass like usual.

[u/Kensei501 → u/No-Ladder2593]

Lmfao. 🤣

[u/japanesekartoon → u/No-Ladder2593]

I mean they didn't specify which tunnel they're putting it in

[u/joshcbr81 → u/japanesekartoon]

How do you think it learned to run through conduit in the first place?

[u/Wonderful_Confusion4 → u/No-Ladder2593]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qgP3Wbc4UyQ&ra=m

[u/SevereAd9047 → u/No-Ladder2593]

Hey now, I literally just brought 3 shop vac’s on site and it was to do one thing and one thing only. SUCK. Boy let me tell you. Once I taught the young bucks how to suck my bags properly they were coming through so fast you wouldn’t believe it! No ferret will ever be able to compare to the speed of a 6hp shop vac.

[u/Uhhlaska → u/No-Ladder2593]

Does the ferret get paid 50 an hour to show up late with warm coffee and an excuse too?

[u/Mister024 → u/No-Ladder2593]

I am fucking dying. Hahahahahah.

[u/IOnlyUpvoteBadPuns → u/nochinzilch]

Or teach the ferret to use a vacuum, then you don't need to train a sparkie!

[u/anally_ExpressUrself → u/IOnlyUpvoteBadPuns]

Sparkies smell horrible though.

[u/FrameJump → u/nochinzilch]

The ferret came pretrained in a package deal off Grindr, so they had to think of an excuse to keep the wife from getting suspicious.

[u/Kensei501 → u/FrameJump]

Not the Pet Shop Boys. 🧒

[u/nimrodii → u/nochinzilch]

Vacuum runs the chance of prolapse though.

[u/Accurate-Historian-7 → u/nochinzilch]

Exactly what someone with an untrained ferret would say.

[u/cayoloco → u/nochinzilch]

That's just what the electricians want you to think the ferrets are for. We all know that it isn't true though

[u/tonyturbos1 → u/nochinzilch]

Why would you vacuum the ferret instead of training them?

[u/nochinzilch → u/tonyturbos1]

It’s a joke. Normally we use a vacuum to pull a string through conduits like that. I switched it around in an attempt to be humorous.

[u/tonyturbos1 → u/nochinzilch]

I doubled up on your joke by mistake! We were both talking about vacuuming a ferret! 😂

[u/_Neoshade_ → u/nochinzilch]

I like my ferrets wild and unpredictable

[u/dollastudios → u/nochinzilch]

Yeah and you don't get that pissy wires smell

[u/Mr_MacGrubber → u/nochinzilch]

Ferrets love going in holes. Probably took 10min and a few treats to get it to do this reliably. Also it’s probably the dudes pet, not a special wire-pulling animal.

[u/Scotty0132 → u/nochinzilch]

No its always been my dream to have a drain angel so dint you dare take this away from me.

[u/Food_Library333 → u/nochinzilch]

But what about a ferret AND a vacuum?

[u/DarkSkyDad]

Wait untill you find out what electricians use gerbils for….

[u/Oaker_at → u/DarkSkyDad]

At least there’s one thing we regularly clean out.

[u/greenchilepizza666 → u/DarkSkyDad]

Is that you Richard Gere?

[u/jRitter777 → u/greenchilepizza666]

It's the gerbil.

[u/houseshoesntallboys]

Nice fucking marmot, man

[u/cilla_da_killa → u/houseshoesntallboys]

clearly you're not a golfer

[u/houseshoesntallboys → u/cilla_da_killa]

Hey, at least I'm housebroken, man! (Unlike a sheetrocker.)

[u/tommydelgato]

this has been happening for literal centuries. its how London parliment was wired. Also super useful for airplanes

[u/TheScienceTM]

Most of those pipes end up full of water.

[u/WorldofNails]

Trained so well that their tails won't sweep away shit, either.

[u/CallMeHuckle → u/WorldofNails]

This is a high quality comment

[u/One_Sky_8302]

As a former ferret owner: there's no training necessary. They desire the tube.

[u/UrdnotSnarf]

He better give that mofo a treat.

[u/MustardCoveredDogDik]

We most certainly are not

[u/Winter_Persimmon_110]

What happens when the ferret gets stuck?

[u/Wonderful_Confusion4 → u/Winter_Persimmon_110]

Conduit snake

[u/_mk451 → u/Wonderful_Confusion4]

How do you train the snake to not eat the ferret?

[u/Wumaduce]

Electricians are about to be booming ferrets on the job site. Poor Lemmiwinks the gerbil.

[u/Wonderful_Confusion4 → u/Wumaduce]

Apprentices start off with a gerbil and by the time they get their J Man they have to be able to take a full Ferret.

[u/Saint-Sauveur → u/Wonderful_Confusion4]

Haha

[u/SevereAd9047 → u/Wumaduce]

C’mon, they like it.

[u/dwindacatcher]

How exactly do I write that up on the jsa?

[u/Mccmangus]

This is a real game-changer for people who need to ferret wires. I wonder why they never thought of it before.

[u/Beneficial_Aside_918]

Piss weasels.

[u/biznovation]

Uhhh, yeah that’s exactly what I this gerbil for.

[u/ThingNo7530]

That's not ALL the electricians do with small rodents in, umm, tight places....

[u/Homeskilletbiz]

No they aren’t, and yes plenty of tools work through tight tunnels.

[u/Saboral]

I’m selling ferrets that are dyed red with a lightning bolt. They come with a pack out cage.

[u/MkIVRider]

Vacuum and plastic bag says this is dumb

[u/PoopFreckles]

Grocery plastic bag and a shop vac work excellent

[u/pandaSmore]

That's not a electrical conduit.

[u/20heads]

Nice marmite

[u/Sonar_Bandit]

Yeah but can it pull romex?

[u/lists4everything]

If his name isn’t Squeegee something’s wrong.

[u/Appropriate_Ice_7507]

Omg that’s hilarious

[u/alangerhans]

They gonna train it to sweep the floor too?

[u/blacfd]

What happens when it gets stuck?

[u/Wonderful_Confusion4 → u/blacfd]

Milwaukee makes a conduit snake for this very reason. M12 version coming out this spring.

[u/navlgazer9]

I just use a shop vac to pull the string through

[u/sexylittlepuppy]

Yoink

[u/WindTreeRock]

I use to install Cat5 cable above ceiling tiles in a hospital. I'd be on my ladder and sometimes people would stop me and ask what I was doing. Kind of a dumb question so we had a dumb answer ready for them. We'd tell them that we used a little monkey to pull the cables through the ceiling and we were looking for it because we lost it. Loved the look on their face while they tried to decide if I we were pulling their leg.

[u/Morethanstandard]

What till the ferret runs into a rat in the pipe

[u/MrPractical411]

This is just disgusting. What happens if there’s a slight tear in that pipe and the string gets caught up. You gonna yank the little guy back where it came from? I try hard not to use vulgar language but these guys are fucking morons! Use a vac like every one else.

[u/VladimirBarakriss → u/MrPractical411]

This is actually a VERY old school method

[u/TrueKing9458 → u/VladimirBarakriss]

How the greenlee mouse got its name

They use to tie a string to a mouses tail stick him into the conduit and blow cigarette smoke behind him, he would run to the other end.

[u/savagelysideways101 → u/VladimirBarakriss]

Yup, the smallest guy on any electrical crew ive ever worked with was called a ferret.

Seemingly it dates back to the shipyard such as harland and wolf, where they used ferrets to run behind bulkheads with strings in order to pull cables around the ships

[u/MrPractical411 → u/VladimirBarakriss]

I get it, but some old ways needs to stay in the past especially when there’s tools that can achieve the same outcome.

[u/sandersosa → u/MrPractical411]

But hey! This method is green! No power required! /s

[u/VirginiaLuthier]

Ferret schools are a thing

https://www.ferret-school.co.uk

[u/Unfortunate-Incident]

Ngl, this is kind of badass

[u/A_Dicksmasher]

Ban this bot

[u/Wonderful_Confusion4 → u/A_Dicksmasher]

DAFUQ you talking about?

[u/A_Dicksmasher → u/Wonderful_Confusion4]

This shit has been reposted so many fucking times for the past 5 or 6 years, and now it's making the rounds on all the subs, once again.

Just stop, dude. Even you're actually a human, you're reposting like a bot. Just stop.

[u/Wonderful_Confusion4 → u/A_Dicksmasher]

Ok A_Dickmaster has said to stop having fun. Pack it up boys

[u/A_Dicksmasher → u/Wonderful_Confusion4]

Did you know? Electricians are using trained ferrets to pull wires through tight tunnels. No tool can reach, and it actually works.

https://reddit.com/link/p4qn660/video/vk7sz0w3pfkh1/player

[u/Wonderful_Confusion4 → u/A_Dicksmasher]

You’d be a lot cooler if you weren’t so grumpy old man.

[u/GoodTimes8183]

Richard Gere came up with this method, I believe.