4800 Volts and a cat

[Diggin It]

Are you saying ....

I'm saying ...

This morning I stopped and looked around . A heavy truck had pulled up on the shoulder of the road .There were dozens of work boot tracks around the base of the power pile.

.... somebody did something. We don't know if it was the utility, FD, an electric line contractor or someone else. Might have even been the cat's owner who was able to coax it down without risk.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

!. That's why you call the utility who has the trained crews and proper equipment intended to protect their system.

2. Do you often find skeletons of dead squirrels, raccoons, skunks, opossums, rabbits or any other small game that meets their fate in the wild? Sometimes I do, most times not as other predators will drag them off.

Don't look if you're squeamish.

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[CobyRupert]

Don't look if you're squeamish.

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....I'm sure someone can tie the two themes here together and make a "cat burglar gone wrong" joke.

A reminder to never confuse "hot" (a stolen item) with "hot" (electrically energized). Big mistake.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

....I'm sure someone can tie the two themes here together and make a "cat burglar gone wrong" joke.

A reminder to never confuse "hot" (a stolen item) with "hot" (electrically energized). Big mistake.

Man, you got that right. Could be a fatal mistake!

 

[buickanddeere]

I'm saying ...




.... somebody did. We don't know if it was the utility, FD, an electric line contractor or someone else.

The crew would have been Hydro One .

 

[turnkey4099]

Not true.

Yep. I have seen outages caused by birds.

 

[turnkey4099]

!. That's why you call the utility who has the trained crews and proper equipment intended to protect their system.

2. Do you often find skeletons of dead squirrels, raccoons, skunks, opossums, rabbits or any other small game that meets their fate in the wild? Sometimes I do, most times not as other predators will drag them off.

The weird one I found was a deer in the ditch along the well-traved highway. I was on my daily 2 mile hike so It was a fresh road kill. I watched it gradually melt away until it was nothing but bones. Coyotes (and we have a lot of them including a den not a quarter mile away) never touched it.

 

[bunyip]

We get possums running along the wires between poles at night, if they step onto the wrong platform they put on quite a lightshow for a while, I think their amp rating is a bit lower than the circuit breakers as we rarely get an interuption, just a bit of flickering.

 

[k0ua]

We get possums running along the wires between poles at night, if they step onto the wrong platform they put on quite a lightshow for a while, I think their amp rating is a bit lower than the circuit breakers as we rarely get an interuption, just a bit of flickering.

Here with our 120 volt outlets in our homes you can put a copper electrode from hot on one end to neutral on the other end of a standard hotdog and it won't blow a 15 amp breaker. It is a pretty dangerous thing to do, but people do it to cook hotdogs when they don't have any other way. I wonder how much current a "possum" would pull at 4800 to 5600 volts? Might depend on how juicy he was.

An old stringy dry one, might not pull as much current as a nice young fat and juicy one!

 

[3Ts]

I've always been confused when I see people or firemen rescuing cats out of trees. If cats really got stuck in trees (or on poles), wouldn't people be finding cat skeletons in trees?

Interesting thought. - One place I lived a kitten climbed up a tree a long ways. It decided it couldn't get down so started yowling. All the neighbors came out to see. No FD to rescue it, to high for the neighbors and no lower limbs to climb. The mama cat climbed up and yowled at it. Quite a ruckus for awhile. Jumping to the end, the cats all got down on their own.