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[SlabLapper4sure]

Could have been a real tragedy!
From another post but couldnt share and thought if anything else, i need to share this.
We come across some of the damnedest things on our job.
The line was still hot when we got there.
After we made our repairs and went on to the next job it struck me.
This downed line was only 80 or so feet from a hunters blind.
Had that hunter been on his way out to hunt on that morning, it would have been in the dark.
He would have never known what hit him and would be lying next to those deer.
Downed lines are very hard to see, even for us at times.
Just a little note to my fellow hunters.
Keep your head on a swivel.

[Mike1234]

Thanks for the heads up. Most hunters aren’t thinking about something like that when there hunting.


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[LowePro]

Wow!!!!! That is unreal!

[Speck]

Scary!!

[trypman1]

Wow, that is unreal!

[Redge]

Thanks for posting this. I would have never thought!
So powerlines don’t have a breaker on them. (don’t laugh)
Explain this to me, please.


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[scrat]

It's a wonder that the power line didn't start a fire also. I seen one place that caught fire from a downed line. If anyone see down line don't investigate call the power company or 911 as fast as you can.

[fishman57]

Dang. I might have to move my stand


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[canebreaker]

Reminds me of when my son was at the Shrine burn center. A boy was brought in. He and some friends were off road bicycle riding. They needed to pull their bikes up a hill. He grabbed the guide wire on a utility pole. The bike was on his calf muscle. The bike grounded out and it blew a hole in his leg.

[Mac Daddy]

Thanks for posting this. I would have never thought!
So powerlines don’t have a breaker on them. (don’t laugh)
Explain this to me, please.


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Redge, I'll explain it as best that I can. FYI, I was a lineman, and worked for Entergy for 14 years, a long time ago. Yes, there are either fuses or breakers, called reclosers, they are called that because they will trip out and then reclose back a couple of times in an effort to clear up a momentary fault, such as a limb hitting a line during a wind storm, tripping the breaker then the limb falls off and clears the fault, it closes back and the lights stay on then. But in this case, whether it's a fuse or a recloser, it appears that this tree is dead, probably for a long time and dried out, therefore in its dried state it acts like and insulator preventing the electricity from making it to the ground and blowing a fuse or tripping the breaker. If it had been wet or green wood it "may" have acted like a conductor sufficiently enough to have blown a fuse or trip the breaker. But you can never assume that ever, under any ​circumstance. I've seen them laying totally on the ground and still be hot, or in the case of one of my friends, during an ice storm, the line was laying on the ground totally encased in ice, which can also act as an insulator even though it's made up of water, and he picked it up assuming it had to be dead and it killed him. That line is most likely energized at 7,620 volts with enough amps that it will not allow a mistake if you touch it. Sorry so long of an explanation, but I hope it helps.