[TowerTalk] Close call with death

[Pete Smith]

Too true.  a brief story.

A few years ago we needed to put in a new well, and the backhoe operator 
digging the trench for the pipe and power to the well "found" the 220 
feed to our garage about a foot down.  "No problem", he said, "The 
backhoe is grounded so all that happens is it trips the breaker."  He 
might not be quite so blase' if it was 15KV!  Unfortunately, "Miss 
Utility" won't mark privately-owned lines here, and our power, phone, 
TV, etc. are above-ground.

73, Pete N4ZR

The World Contest Station Database, updated daily at www.conteststations.com
The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com,
spots at telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000



On 1/15/2011 10:17 PM, Randy wrote:
> FWIW, I once stuck my hand in a hole full of water, due to a broken
> sprinkler at a condo
> that I worked at, and found a 220V line for a nearby halogen light, on a
> pole, about a foot down.
> Things are not always where common sense would tell us that they ought
> to be.