Give Ye Thanks

[BoxaRox]

It is with a certain degree of grateful humility that one puts down the screwdriver and goes outside to reset the 200 amp breaker at the meter.

[oneeyeddick]

Did you not give someone candy last night, and you got "tricked"?

[BoxaRox]

Nope, let go of a ground wire and dropped it onto the hot bus. Bright flash then darkness.

[Deb Prothero]

ah, you tricked yourself!

[BoxaRox]

I proved it was not my day to die.

[Deb Prothero]

And a good thing that is, for sure.

[LeChatNoir]

It is with a certain degree of grateful humility that one puts down the screwdriver and goes outside to reset the 200 amp breaker at the meter.

Got a cold sweat feeling reading this.

We lost power in a machine shop I once worked in. Come to find out a blacksnake had crawled up and wrapped around the transformer top and crossed one leg of incoming power with the neutral. When the service guys popped his cooked ol’ body loose and threw him down, he hit the ground like a very hard piece of car tire.

Glad you’re still around.

[gyre]

Glad you're okay.
A friend had a screwdriver arc in a high voltage box.
He fell some distance and was blind for awhile.

When we were building a recording studio downtown on beale here, a couple of guys pushing aluminum scaffolding in the area hit some high voltage lines with it.
The wheels insulated the aluminum.
They went up in smoke.

Remember to keep one hand behind your back when working with potential live wires.
And insulated tools are getting much easier to find.
Carbon fibre and plastic knives are quite cheap now.

[Deb Prothero]

And a good thing that is, for sure.

[goathead]

almost as fun as fire.

200 amp, nice bright flash.

glad your ok.

sure puts a different way of thinking in motion real quick doesn't it.