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Re: Tractor Fire!!!!!
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Posted by Fred Milner on February 08, 2004 at 06:06:35 from (66.168.91.91):
In Reply to: Tractor Fire!!!!! posted by Poor So. IL. Farmer on February 07, 2004 at 22:54:00:
A ground fault receptacle would have tripped and you would not have this problem. OSHA has required these to be used for several years now and they have helped to keep people from being hurt a lot of times. The electrical code requires them for outside circuits also. You can get them for about $7.00 each and they are not hard to install in the same box you are using now. You only need one per circuit. You put it in the first receptacle and it will protect all the others behind it. It could save your barn, tractor, your child or grandchild. You might be careful and not have a problem but will everyone else that helps you? If you happened to have wet feet and hit a bare spot on a cord it is quite a shock that a ground fault would save you from. Better to spent $7.00 and be safe with everything on the circiut than to just protect one item and spend more money on the one thing.
I had a bad experience with water and electricity and the ground fault would have helped but we didn't have one in place. We do now.
Good luck and glad it was not the barn and tractor.
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