Are you a manly electrician?

Tom@Hilltop_Machine

Tom@Hilltop_Machine

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Out of the 1913 electrical handbook.
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jeepinmatt said:
I'm certain @mikek learned this way. One of his "mentors" also drilled into his head "Anybody can work on it with the power off. They pay us a lot of money to work on it with the power on!" :laughing:
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That’s one thing I hate and avoid at all costs if I can. I’ll do all the testing needed with power on but when it comes to making the repair, you better believe I’m cutting power lol
 
R Q said:
I've been zapped a couple times, I need a light on to see what I'm doing! :laughing:
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120 volts ain't never killed no dry people. :rockon:
 
My grandfather was an electrician in the navy in ww2, and then until he retired from a paper mill. We used to have an electric fence charger that I have seen kill a full grown possum. To test if the fence was working, he would just walk up and grab it and never flinch. Im still not sure how he was able to do it.
 
Ive been hit a few times over the years. Not a manly man i guess because that shit hurts
 
Shocked to many times to count when you get used to the sparks and green light well your over it
 
CasterTroy said:
If you pissed on a livestock fence on a dare as a kid...a slight tickle really isn't that big a deal 🤷🏻‍♂️
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For me it wasn't a dare....it was just out of complete obliviousness to how close I was to it. My mother told me I was 3 or 4 the first time I pissed on the electric fence. She said I was juuuuust a-rockin and a-swaying, seeing how high I could arc that stream. Then I hit the fence. Then I was a-dancing and a-screaming, still mid-stream. Funny to hear her tell it.
 
Scooter402 said:
For me it wasn't a dare....it was just out of complete obliviousness to how close I was to it. My mother told me I was 3 or 4 the first time I pissed on the electric fence. She said I was juuuuust a-rockin and a-swaying, seeing how high I could arc that stream. Then I hit the fence. Then I was a-dancing and a-screaming, still mid-stream. Funny to hear her tell it.
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I’m laughing at you and with you on this exact scenario
 
CasterTroy said:
If you pissed on a livestock fence on a dare as a kid...a slight tickle really isn't that big a deal 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Funny story.... My uncle (in his 40s at the time) was hunting a few hundred yards from me one morning and stood up to take a leak before daylight. Thought he turned away from the fence, and instead turned to it. When he screamed, we all thought something was trying to eat the dang fool.
 
ramjo said:
My cousins husband is a lineman and calls me to come do electrical work at his house....He's ok working with enough juice to blow his arms off but the thoughts of that tingly feeling in his elbows a no go.
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I have realized that linemen actually have no idea about electricity. They know how to do the physical work and how to be safe, but don't particularly understand the particulars. I had a transformer go bad and the linemen came to replace it. They got done I ask if it was good to go. They said it was. I ask them if they had checked the voltage and they said they hadn't, they didn't even have a meter with them of any kind. I grabbed my meter and popped the door on my main disconnect. The lineman back up and said "i dodn't mess with 480, that shit will kill you." Wtf? He was just 2ft from transmission voltage, but got weirded out when I checked the house power.
 
I usually work on my 110V house circuits live simply because the main subpanel isn't labeled well and I have not had the desire to figure it out. What usually hurts more is my elbow unexpected hitting an immovable object when I get zapped.
 
I've worked up 480V hot - mostly 120/208/220/277.

I've done a lot I did not enjoy, but done out of necessity. Anyone I've been "training" or showing how to do something, I state "kill it before it kills you" (work w/ the power off)
 
I did apprentice work with my grandfather for years growing up. Been shocked a lot, doesn't bother me any more. He was funny though, it never bothered him and he never flinched, but when he would touch a hot wire he would just mutter "you son of a bitch" and keep going. Every single time.
 
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