OH NO!!! NO WAY!!!!!

Varmintmist · May 5, 2005

( Yea just imagine if that truck were to slip or tilt even a few inches what the ride would be like in the bucket. )

A slow sinking feeling as your work starts to get higher in the air. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

It happens when you put the truck on a slant and your tummy pretty well maxes out the weight limit for the bucket /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The bigger stuff like that one have outriggers and stabilize pretty well.

Harv, did you ever sneak up and hit the DOWN on your dad when he was in the bucket?? You only have to move it 2-3 inches if he isnt looking /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

hobbyfarm · May 5, 2005

( Even more nutso are those guys who sit on the leg of a helicopter while it hovers next to 500,000 volt lines! They wear some kind of metal mesh suit and "clamp on" with a pole from the live wire to the suit - they sort of become part of the circuit! Craziness! )

Craziness!?? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif What ever do you mean? Electricity won't hurt ya...until you ground yourself! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

_RaT_ · May 5, 2005

It's knowing just how grounded you are. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif That ability to know gets less and less recognizable as the voltage goes up. I would routinely swap out 100 amp or smaller panels for 200 amp panels. It almost always required me to re-energize the new panel with the hot feeds coming from the pole. I would take all precautions when doing this since I would be grabbing one hot leg at a time, stripping it, and clamping it all hot and with only one hand. Only once did I get a tingle and to this day, I still have no clue why or how I was grounded. I don't like getting shocked. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

hitekcountry · May 5, 2005

Rat

Grounding is of course an important factor but not the only one. The broader issue is voltage differential. You can be completely isolated from ground but if you grab L1 with one hand and L2 with the other, your dead. I know I’m not telling you anything you don’t know, but someone reading your statement may think as long as they’re not ground they will be safe, not true.

Fred

_RaT_ · May 5, 2005

Good point and also for those more familiar with electricity why I put this in there:

"I would take all precautions when doing this since I would be grabbing one hot leg at a time, stripping it, and clamping it all hot and with only one hand.

wroughtn_harv · May 6, 2005

( ( Yea just imagine if that truck were to slip or tilt even a few inches what the ride would be like in the bucket. )

A slow sinking feeling as your work starts to get higher in the air. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

It happens when you put the truck on a slant and your tummy pretty well maxes out the weight limit for the bucket /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The bigger stuff like that one have outriggers and stabilize pretty well.

Harv, did you ever sneak up and hit the DOWN on your dad when he was in the bucket?? You only have to move it 2-3 inches if he isnt looking /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )

No. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Back in the day we used to use set up splicing platforms for doing work on aerial cable. Even though you tightened that puppy down as much as possible there would invariably by that one to two inch drop when one party stepped off.

If the other party wasn't ready for it, well, it's the first half inch of fall that causes the heart attack. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I used to be really good at getting the other guy busy and then do the step off. It was funny. But sometimes the payback came when you least expected it. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

hitekcountry · May 6, 2005

I used to be really good at getting the other guy busy and then do the step off. It was funny. 
Harv

I’m beginning to get the impression that working with you could be rather exciting at times. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif I seem to remember a story about this big guy who came to the conclusion he might want to quit on you, something about his sense of humor wasn’t keeping up with yours. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif I believe you were helping him along with his decision making process. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif