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If that thing got energized to the point that the trailer tires caught fire I'd guess that he doesn't have a story to tell...
Never really thought about it but I suppose the dielectric properties of a steel sidewall would be greatly diminished from those of a nylon or whatever sidewall.
 
Never really thought about it but I suppose the dielectric properties of a steel sidewall would be greatly diminished from those of a nylon or whatever sidewall.
Certainly. With a steel sidewall your biggest uninterriped stretch of rubber it has to go through is the tread. With a nylon sidewall you've got multiple inches of rubber/plastic separating the nearest metal from the ground.
 
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No signs on the doors, yup.

Thats not how you repo a semi. Anyone sent to repo a truck usually has a key for the truck. Most company trucks have gps on them, so they're easily located. They will wait till the driver leaves the truck and then they take possession of the truck. If there's any issue, they’ll have an officer escort them. Usually whoever takes possession will let a driver get their stuff out. Most times the truck has been abandoned, so alot of companies just send another driver to get the truck and pay them for their time.
 
I'm guessing more along the lines of the guy who owns the tow truck is 59 days behind with nothing to lose and he's gonna take every $350 tow that comes his way:laughing:
 
If that thing got energized to the point that the trailer tires caught fire I'd guess that he doesn't have a story to tell...
Report says he got out and left the scene. Cops had to track him down. Safe to say he may have been impaired.
 
He may also look like a doctor Frankenstein creation now too
We had a dude get into one of our substations earlier this year and get a little too friendly with a 115kv bushing. I don't think he actually contacted it because there wouldn't have been anything left, but got close enough to get induced. They found him down the road with no clothes, hair or eyeballs sitting in someone's pond/fountain thing. No idea how the fuck he got out or even was alive. They flew him to Seattle but I'm sure he didn't survive.
 
We had a dude get into one of our substations earlier this year and get a little too friendly with a 115kv bushing. I don't think he actually contacted it because there wouldn't have been anything left, but got close enough to get induced. They found him down the road with no clothes, hair or eyeballs sitting in someone's pond/fountain thing. No idea how the fuck he got out or even was alive. They flew him to Seattle but I'm sure he didn't survive.
and that right there is why I am scared of electricity
 
Reminds me of a story of a guy in the town I went to college in. Wife divorced him so he went to a substation to kill himself. He grabbed something with both hands and held on until his arms burnt through above his elbows. Now he wanders around homeless with no arms, no idea how he lived
I can think of no less than 10 different easier ways to accomplish that goal

horrible and sad
 
Reminds me of a story of a guy in the town I went to college in. Wife divorced him so he went to a substation to kill himself. He grabbed something with both hands and held on until his arms burnt through above his elbows. Now he wanders around homeless with no arms, no idea how he lived
Just no arms? It has to come out somewhere. Everyone I know who's been burned has an equally or worse exit wound(s).
 
Just no arms? It has to come out somewhere. Everyone I know who's been burned has an equally or worse exit wound(s).
if it burnt his arms off, you would think that it traveled though his chest to the other arm....the side effect would be a microwaved chest organs

one time a old timer told me:
If you are ever working on electricity that you aren't sure it is off, use one arm, then it will travel down the side of your body not hitting your heart
I responded with:
Of you can just be sure it is off before you start :laughing:
 
if it burnt his arms off, you would think that it traveled though his chest to the other arm....the side effect would be a microwaved chest organs

one time a old timer told me:
If you are ever working on electricity that you aren't sure it is off, use one arm, then it will travel down the side of your body not hitting your heart
I responded with:
Of you can just be sure it is off before you start :laughing:
One of my buddies took 7200 through the right hand and out his left hip into the concrete pad he was leaning on. He's fat and the Dr's told him he most likely survived because the current traveled around his chest instead of through it, so now that's his justification for being a fat fuck :lmao:
 
Reminds me of a story of a guy in the town I went to college in. Wife divorced him so he went to a substation to kill himself. He grabbed something with both hands and held on until his arms burnt through above his elbows. Now he wanders around homeless with no arms, no idea how he lived

16 year old rod buster a few weeks ago got zapped. Load line on the crane hit a high voltage line, blew the kid's arms off cause he was holding the cage they were moving. Crane operator had to use the extinguisher to put the kid out. Last I heard he was still in an induced coma. We were talking about it at work, one of the guys said he saw the same thing happen 15 or so years back, but the rod buster had cotton sweats on under his work pants, and they were on fire under the carhartts for quite awhile before anyone figured it out.

Scary shit, those electrons.
 
I've met one guy that got zapped and lost both arms. Was a little weird you could see the muscles of his shoulders moving like he was gesturing. I think the story was he was working on a line that ended up being energized when it shouldn't have no.
 
Just no arms? It has to come out somewhere. Everyone I know who's been burned has an equally or worse exit wound(s).
My cousin was a PGE lineman. i know of a couple of his friends that got ”hooked up” as they call it and blew their arms off around the elbow
 
My dad raised the tower of the well rig into pge primary wires before I was born.
It burned his hand and a hole through his boot. The front tire of the truck blew out the the 3" wire reinforced suction hose caught on fire. He used a block of wood to lower the tower back down.
 
My cousin was a PGE lineman. i know of a couple of his friends that got ”hooked up” as they call it and blew their arms off around the elbow
That usually happens in the secondary, that shit can fuck you up bad even though the voltage is so much lower.
 
We have done crane pics around high voltage
how many voltages I don't know. But we had a power plant and it was the wires going to the grid

But I would get real nervous with that damn crane up there and constantly question the crane operator about it
 
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