Hi, my name is George Hayden and to the best of my knowledge I have the only Mobile Lineman's Museum in the world. It is my understanding that there are now three Lineman's Museums in the United States. I know that finding out that I am not the only person trying to save the Line Material and Equipment that is no longer made, takes a big load from my shoulders. I have felt for many years that it is important to save for posterity, anything that reminds us of where we came from and how products, devices and equipment have evolved.

To forget the past is to place no value on all of those that have come before us. For all of those people who have made this industry what it is today. Or all of those who worked in deplorable conditions, who's every job was a backbreaking chore, bending the body, dulling the mind, but never crushing the spirit. And those who had the job of working with energizes conductors, and working with the most primitive tools imaginable.

Some of those tools and equipment has to be looked at, to understand and appreciate at all, how hard it must have been for those crews who was responsible for doing the work, especially when comparing the tools and equipment that was available to them and then compare that to the tools, equipment, training and support that is available to line crews today. It still seems almost impossible that some of the products that I have in my collection, really could have ever been used by men with a job to do, so many years ago.