Posted by The tractor vet on November 09, 2019 at 06:56:00 from (104.179.81.68):
In Reply to: Overhead Powerlines posted by stroby on November 09, 2019 at 04:51:42:
Don't let the idea of being on rubber tires is going to help one tiny little bit. My buddy's kid was plowing a field that had a the one high voltage like 7600 volts running in it and it jumped from the line to the muffler about three feet . When this happened it blew every shear off the plow took out all five tires trashed out every bearing in the tractor whipped out the engine as it arched the crank and bearings and one pair of shorts and sounded like a 155 going off . Getting under them high tension lines can give you and education also , case in point here the sale lot at Tri Green in London Ohio .Years back my one buddy that he and i travelled to sales together went down to a March sale it was misty and cold when Donny and i got there Early and he and i were scouting the lot for some of our stuff that got moved and see what else was there so we could work out our game plan . He saw his piece of equipment and got out to look as the tag was not wright and it was setting under one of the towers , he was driving that day and we had his S 15 , Donny is shorter then i am and i am scrunched up in the passenger side , he jumps out and the wind blows the door closed so he finds his tag placed out of site and moves it so it can be seen . He grabs the door handle and is promptly knocked to the ground by and electrical shock . The power lines over head are sizzling and creating a static charge , now now being to bright he gets up and trys again to open the door and gets Zapped . I had to unfold myself and climb over all the junk we had inside to get behind the wheel and move the truck up from under the power lines , that day you could not touch anything setting under or around the towers with out getting zapped big time.
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