There is an interesting Youtube channel, "bobsdecline" which discusses some of the problems linemen have to fix.
I checked out a couple of them. The wedge grip trick works, but I use channel locks and go ahead and pry them apart. It’s quicker, and it’s going in the trash anyway...
amazingly enough it’s never raining, or icing in the videos. Suns always out...
Sometimes I’m out there at 2 in the morning, in the rain, and 32 degrees praying it doesn’t fall one or two more degrees..
That’s when it isn’t so glamorous.
Some electricians work the same..
There’s little worse than a hot attic on a summer day and the job has got to be done now.
Also, not sure how the rest feel about this, but is there any place colder than a closed in house or building, with no heat at all? Even if it’s 20 degrees outside, it seems colder inside...