WD4JIM |
True Story-Funny as Hell!!!!
If you have ever used an electric fence or know someone who has one you should read this. The lan-guage used is a bit salty, but 'he tells it like it is' without cursing. If you don't laugh hysterically at this, CHECK YOUR PULSE... this is funny... and true. This was sent by a retired dentist. We have the standard 6 ft. fence in the backyard, and a few months ago, I heard about burglaries increasing dra-matically in the entire city. To make sure this never happened to me, I got an electric fence and ran a single wire along the top of the fence. Actually, I got the biggest cattle charger Tractor Supply had, made for 26 miles of fence. I then used an 8 ft. long ground rod, and drove it 7.5 ft. into the ground. The ground rod is the key, with the more you have in the ground, the better the fence works. One day I'm mowing the back yard with my cheapo Wal-Mart 6 hp big wheel push mower. The hot wire is bro-ken and laying out in the yard. I knew for a fact that I unplugged the charger. I pushed the mower around the wire and reached down to grab it, to throw it out of the way. It seems as though I hadn't remembered to unplug it after all. Now I'm standing there, I've got the running lawnmower in my right hand and the 1.7 giga-volt fence wire in the other hand. Keep in mind the charger is about the size of a marine battery and has a picture of an upside down cow on fire on the cover. Time stood still. The first thing I notice is my pecker trying to climb up the front side of my body. My ears curled downwards and I could feel the lawnmower ignition firing in the backside of my brain. Every time that Briggs & Stratton rolled over, I could feel the spark in my head. I was literally at one with the engine. It seems as though the fence charger and the piece of crap lawnmower were fighting over who would control my electrical impulses. Science says you cannot crap, pee, and vomit at the same time. I beg to differ. Not only did I do all three at once, but my bowels emptied 3 different times in less than half of a se-cond. It was a Matrix kind of bowel movement, where time is creeping along and you're all leaned back and BAM BAM BAM you just crap your pants 3 times. It seemed like there were minutes in be-tween but in reality it was so close together. It was like exhaust pulses from a big block Chevy turning 8 grand. At this point I'm about 30 minutes (maybe 2 seconds) into holding onto the fence wire. My hand is wrapped around the wire palm down so I can't let go. I grew up on a farm so I know all about electric fences. But Dad always had those piece of shit chargers made by International or whoever that were like 9 volts and just kinda tickled. This one I could not let go of. The 8 ft. long ground rod is now accepting signals from me through the permadamp Ark-La-Tex river bottom soil. At this point I'm thinking I'm going to have to just man up and take it, until the lawnmower runs out of gas. To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them...’’
— Richard Henry Lee, 1787
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RandyMc
a story to read while trying to drink a cup of hot coffee unless you want it spewed on your keyboard or snorted through your nose down the front of your shirt. WD4, I have a fence around my place and have considered doing just this. After reading this story, not so sure its such a good idea. Thanks for the laugh.
Randy
CharlesW
Man that must have hurt
Oh that was WD4JIM LMAO
RandyMc
I was reading this story and had just got a mouthful of coffee when I read the part about him reaching down to grab the wire. I almost lost the whole mouthful in the ways I described. I have seriously thought about placing an electric fence around my place but had decided not to as yet. This just reinforces my decision because I would likely do something similar as for the transformer and what not. I would NOT reach down and grab a wire laying on the ground unless I knew it was not just turned off, but also disconnected. Too many people around here use solar panels to power their electric fences and you never know when one might appear to be off and connected and still be on.
CharlesW
even took the breaker out of the box. I knew it was dead.
Tested it with a meter.
Then I touched both sides of the thermostat. Don't ever
do that. When they go out they store energy. Knocked me
across the room.
Snake
Never under ANY circumstances ever put full trust in your electrical class partner. I learned that lesson the hard way. I was working with my buddy on running a wiring setup on a practice station, 2 GFCI plugin's,2 lights and 2 switches one turning off the lights at one side and the other turning on the lights and vice versa. Anyways we had the wiring up and what looked to be in order. The teacher who says he has 30+years in the electrical field inspected it and said it looks good. Feeling proud my buddy decided to hook it up to the breaker box with the permission of the teacher. Unaware of such permmision givin by the teacher I resumed to add a few wire nuts on the connecting wires and had a pair of needle nose pliers holding a HOT wire while adding the wire nut to it as my fingers are to fat to hold it. Also the pliers had the rubber handles covers removed so I was basically holding a mini lightnig rod. Anyways my buddy without warning me flipped the breaker box on sending 120+ volts of pure unadult rated controled lightning through the wires into the pliers into me thus knocking me for a loop. Needless to say I was so fucking pissed at him I literllay threw my tool belt at him cussed him and was dissmissed from class that day on the grounds of I was wreckless in class. My point is when working in eletrical fields the only person you can trust is yourself.
Vaquero
Sounds like a good time to learn "lockout, tagout".
Ask yer teach about it.
Snake
Lock out tag out is where you put a lock on the box with a card that has your signature on it and only you have the key to said lock. Anyways thats would have been a VERY wise choice but it didnt run across my mind at the time....which I am solely to blame on that one I say.
Vaquero
I really hope you understand the being dismissed from class. The scenario you described will get you dismissed from your job. "Fired" If you get my drift.
You can leave with a pink slip or a paramedic.
Snake
Yeah I understood. No hard feelings about that. I may have over reacted but man it did piss me off. And I understand fully that my actions could have injured someone so being dismissed was a good call by the teacher. I respect that.