bigshea13

ive seen some pretty amazing things not only in line clearence but also as a comercial electrician. lines are silent killers. my brother got complacient and didint put a rope in before felling a 60 foot oak. as he started his back cut he saw that it was hollow. the tree fell across the trani lines. the lines are designed to blow off a certain amount of debris{branches/small trees} most of the time they will blow several times then the faults will kill the line. because the substation was going threw renovations it was set in manual mode. the linesmen had to physically shut it down. by the time they reaches the station the tree had been blasted numerous time. i cant remember exsctly how many times but it eventually caused the tree to explode into flames.
another time a young man just starting out{1yr or so} was felling alongside the kvs. something went wrong. they found him in a kneeling position as if frozen in time. there was nothing left of him except a charred figure. the nearest they could figure was that he was trying to pull the tree back on course after an inital poor cut. im sure there are hundreds of misfortunate stories. bottom line.......pay attention and dont cut around them unless your trained to understand the basic properties of electrity and how it behaves.