branch cross phasing a power line

[DanielSon]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c60_1267243854

short

enjoy!

 

[Dan_Watkins]

oh man, thats crazy, really shows how dangerous phase to phase is. it just bursts into flames and pieces!

 

[Tree-Taylor]

That's so effing cool. Love it when it bursts into flames.

 

[dieselcutter]

FREAKING AWESOME!!!!! almost like special effects!

 

[Paul Biester]

Im sure glad no one had a hand on the other end of that thing huh!! That would have looked alot like the hot dog demo the electric guys put on

 

[easyphloem]

Where did that branch fall from?


Looks staged to me. The perps should be fined for messing with something that could kill them.


SZ

 

[southsoundtree]

EZ, I didn't realize Chuck was into black guys. Maybe its a beard thing.

 

[easyphloem]

I think he just pities the fool.


SZ

 

[Gerald_Beranek]

It looked real to me. Because in 1977 I was in a redwood looking down at the very same thing happening.

 

[Rookieclimber]

what kinds of damage did the phase-phase cross do to the lines? any outages, failed conductors, or transformers?

 

[easyphloem]

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It looked real to me.

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Yeah, I didn't think it wasn't real. I've seen it happen in real life too. I just was saying I think someone threw that stick up there on the lines and then taped it.


SZ

 

[Gerald_Beranek]

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It looked real to me.

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Yeah, I didn't think it wasn't real. I've seen it happen in real life too. I just was saying I think someone threw that stick up there on the lines and then taped it.


SZ

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That could have been the case. Pretty ballsy if it was. I Knew a fellow who had his climbline melted from the arc during a cross phase incident. Put half of the coast out of power for about an hour. Took them that long just to find the trouble.