How to not electrocute yourself scrapping. - Page 2

Had one 6 battery one in my dads truck I had cut like some of the stuff on and it started raining and we looked back and it was smoking. Those things are dangerous, but the batteries bring good $

"Those things are Dangerous" Way back in the 1960's a man named Otis wrote /sang about it and a lady named Aretha sang about it too - R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - Now both were talking about something different, but equally dangerous, for some. Working with electricity you soon learn about, just how dangerous and lethal it can be. RESPECT has to be learned one way or another.

You guys have it all wrong. All you need to do to check a power supply is to give your wife the bolt cutters. I knocked an electric line down on purpose with my skidloader this fall because it was in the way (hanging too low). Abandoned farms have the electricity turned off.....right? WRONG !! Anyhow, I told the wife to grab the bolt cutters and cut the line off and roll it up. I didn't see it happen, but she said when she cut the line, sparks flew everywhere and there was an audible POP. Good thiing the handles were insulated. Wife is fine but she doesn't trust me anymore.

Us Canadians are just too darn practical!!

Um, lady, would you mind dressing in coveralls and gumboots? I can't concentrate on my work...

J.

Coveralls & Gumboots now that is "BORING". Ladies please don't dress like that!

Giggedy giggedy giggedy giggedy giggedy!

Originally Posted by t00nces2

I have been shocked, but not by scrappin'. The scariest $h!t I had to work on was 277v. Hot and nuetral just like 120v, but the hot leg is 277v.

AKA :Three Phase

Scrapper and a model?

blue push up bikini set

Never know these days.

Been learning about electricity from this forum over the last year. When I was 18 and being paid as a millwright I was hanging upside down welding an overhead bead on an I-beam during a rain storm. Since I am scared of heights, one arm was wrapped around the I-beam and used the other hand to weld. When the rod ran short I asked my supervisor to put a rod in the stinger. He laughed and said if I was that scared of heights, it was time to learn a little trick. He said put the rod in the mouth and attach the stinger to it. Needless to say, the only thing hanging on the beam after this trick was the safety harness.

Shortly after that I was sent for the board extender and beam shortening tools. They had fun, I learned a lot, and they paid well. To this day the only knowledge of electricity is not to put a welding rod in your mouth and attach the stinger.

The blurriness of Electricliquidators avatar is very similar to what was seen after this experience.

Thanks you for explaining that....as old as I am, I didn't know that.

Originally Posted by Abuilder

AKA :Three Phase

My thanks was aimed at this comment, not Patriot's rod in the mouth trick. I've been shocked enough by just having it in my hand. I'm not brave like those South Dakotans.

Originally Posted by Yunkman

My thanks was aimed at this comment, not Patriot's rod in the mouth trick. I've been shocked enough by just having it in my hand. I'm not brave like those South Dakotans.

Stupidity outweighs bravery in this case. Remember at 18 you know everything, but understand nothing.

At 18 I thought I knew everything and was STUPID-BRAVE.

Originally Posted by jimicrk

I just wanted to get a better view of what's in the background. It's been a few years since I've seen the ocean.

If any one believes the above, I have some ocean property for sale in Nevada, rofl