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[climberjones]

Ok so ive always been trained that electricity can travel down a rope but has anyone ever actually seen it happen?:msp_scared:

 

[mattfr12]

Ok so ive always been trained that electricity can travel down a rope but has anyone ever actually seen it happen?:msp_scared:

Depends on conditions. Add moisture it can go pretty far. It can come through tree branches as to there high moisture content. Dry clean rope doubt it especially if your 100 foot of rope away. I still wouldn't try it on a dare.


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[amert]

Just once, we were trompin in this right of way that was like a swamp, so covered in mud. Big oak can down and splintered the crossarm. It was a feeder on private prop. So we were sticking it hot, and using the handline to pull the phases up to the arm. Started raining like a mother. It started tracking down the handline groundman said it felt like he was getting stung. So he put on his runners.

 

[amert]

Rubbers, as in gloves.

 

[mr. holden wood]

Depends on conditions. Add moisture it can go pretty far. It can come through tree branches as to there high moisture content. Dry clean rope doubt it especially if your 100 foot of rope away. I still wouldn't try it on a dare.
Really?, a g.m was killed last week in seattle when a half inch tag line connected with a single phase res. How you guys have such little respect is beyond me.

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[mattfr12]

Depends on conditions. Add moisture it can go pretty far. It can come through tree branches as to there high moisture content. Dry clean rope doubt it especially if your 100 foot of rope away. I still wouldn't try it on a dare.
Really?, a g.m was killed last week in seattle when a half inch tag line connected with a single phase res. How you guys have such little respect is beyond me.

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Like I said I wouldn't try it. If it conducted in ever situation his ground man would be fried chicken. The conditions have to be correct. I guess when your around it everyday you get use to it. Most of the trees we cut are in the juice. I have a good investment in ADI Stick saws.

My avatar picture the crane is put out under a single phase.

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[mattfr12]

If you go on my YouTube channel I made a video for the truck manufacturer of how the bucket works. In that situation we where jibbed out under a two phase. Hit the up button to hard on accident and it's over. Electric lines and steel booms are like fire and water.




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[mr. holden wood]

Like I said I wouldn't try it. If it conducted in ever situation his ground man would be fried chicken. The conditions have to be correct. I guess when your around it everyday you get use to it. Most of the trees we cut are in the juice. I have a good investment in ADI Stick saws.

My avatar picture the crane is put out under a single phase.

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This reiterates my thought that you and alot of other climbers are retarded when it comes to power. "The conditions have to be corrrect" what a joke. Good luck, with that "you get use to it attitude".

 

[no tree to big]

only guessing at a possibility why the juice did not run down the rope here but maybe the rope itself was not in direct contact with the wire and the power was just traveling through the part of the limb that was touching each line. now, if the rope was between those points or was draped across the lines maybe a different story

 

[mattfr12]

Ok so ive always been trained that electricity can travel down a rope but has anyone ever actually seen it happen?:msp_scared:

So I guess what I'm saying is don't wait until you have to see it to believe it can happen. It can conduct through a lot. When we do clearance it amazing the power they have they incinerate a two inch limb in a second. A lot of times we gotta cut the limbs when they are sticking ten foot out the other side of the juice. So theirs always that one little piece that's gonna bump. Man do they put on a show blue purple yellow sparks and flames. We where arc shields boots gloves and are running stick saws tho don't attempt with a 200t.


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[mattfr12]

This reiterates my thought that you and alot of other climbers are retarded when it comes to power. "The conditions have to be corrrect" what a joke. Good luck, with that "you get use to it attitude".

We do a lot of work for the power companies. You know what a three phase is correct. All three lines are not even carrying the same voltage or frequency and sometimes one is a ground. To generate an arc a hot usually has to come in contact with a ground or different frequency of electricity. So the rope to get a good surge of electricity would have to cross two of the phases.


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[TreeAce]

BM,I am glad u n the gm are ok. It actually take balls to even post this story. The first step to making sure it doesnt happen again is admitting it was your own fault. I know for me its a helpful post cuz it gets me thinking. I am certian you know what ur doing and if it can happen to you....well...it can happen to me to. Dont beat yourself up over it

 

[mattfr12]

This reiterates my thought that you and alot of other climbers are retarded when it comes to power. "The conditions have to be corrrect" what a joke. Good luck, with that "you get use to it attitude".

You have to get use to it if you want money$$ or keep messing with backyard trees over a gutter or some other no challenge tree that every other tree guy with a saddle and saw can take down. However far you wanna take it I guess. I'm not good with cutting trees down for a thousand or two. I got bigger fish to fry. Lol


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[mattfr12]

BM,I am glad u n the gm are ok. It actually take balls to even post this story. The first step to making sure it doesnt happen again is admitting it was your own fault. I know for me its a helpful post cuz it gets me thinking. I am certian you know what ur doing and if it can happen to you....well...it can happen to me to. Dont beat yourself up over it

O dude it can happen to anyone. And electricity is by far one of the biggest killers in the tree care industry.


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[jefflovstrom]

Glad to see the word 'Qualified' instead of 'Certified'.
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[mr. holden wood]

You have to get use to it if you want money$$ or keep messing with backyard trees over a gutter or some other no challenge tree that every other tree guy with a saddle and saw can take down. However far you wanna take it I guess. I'm not good with cutting trees down for a thousand or two. I got bigger fish to fry. Lol

Damn yer such a d-bag. Keep posting pics of coons and little k-booms , while peasants like me make 2g's a day doing real tree work. Suck it little guy!
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[amert]

 

[mattfr12]

You have to get use to it if you want money$$ or keep messing with backyard trees over a gutter or some other no challenge tree that every other tree guy with a saddle and saw can take down. However far you wanna take it I guess. I'm not good with cutting trees down for a thousand or two. I got bigger fish to fry. Lol

Damn yer such a d-bag. Keep posting pics of coons and little k-booms , while peasants like me make 2g's a day doing real tree work. Suck it little guy!
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keep posting pics of you doing pine trees with a crane. thats what they train people on spruce and pine. no slinging skill their son. and i wouldn't even show up to a job site with the equipment in your pics that ####s embarrassing. i guess an old truck like that can only pull a chipper that size tho. so i can see why you got such a baby chipper. i really like when you post a picture of yourself makes me feel good. knowing someone that looks like you is out their.

dude seriously bragging about 2g's a day tho? thats pretty weak. AA probably does more than that in a day. for 2g's a day i wouldn't even start a truck. that might have been good money for a full time tree business in the 70's. i hope that is a typo if you wanna turn it up to like 4-5 ill let it slide.

 

[KenJax Tree]

The guys that want to start up a tree business and think all you need is a rope,saddle,and saw to be a tree guy need to read this thread. I learned ALOT doing line clearance and what i learned there i use everyday.

 

[mattfr12]

don't want to derail this thread anymore because holden wood seems he have to prove he's a man to me.

but this is what the power company provides us with to see if lines are live or dead. i keep this guy handy in the pickup. the actual testers stay in the truck. it won't tell you what is flowing but at least if anything is flowing. you can put it on the end of a jameson pole. its sensitive enough to pickup static electricity by rubbing it on your shirt.