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- Posted by: @nate-the-surveyor
If you are human, you usually have experience with electric fences.
I’ve been bit by electric fences a dozen or times in my career. Most were no big deal, but the time I remember most clearly involved a gate with a chest-high wire. I had gone through that gate several times, opening and closing it carefully each time. But then I had to set a traverse point near it, so I got out my binoculars to make sure I had a clear line of sight to the point I had just left. I was moving around, jockeying for a clear shot, and inadvertently wandered a little too close to the gate. I hit the wire with both forearms. It’s a miracle that I didn’t drop the binocs, because that was one hot fence. I had burn marks on both arms.
My most recent encounter with a hot wire was while on vacation a few years ago. We had climbed to the roof of a church somewhere in Spain, and there were walkways with guard rails along various parts of the roof. I kept seeing these interesting stainless steel assemblies on the other side of the rails, and at one point the rail was right next to one. As I reached out to touch it, I got as far as saying “I wonder what this” before I made contact. At that point I could no longer speak, but I also had the answer to my question: pigeons.
- Posted by: @jim-frame
Given that they probably wired the 230 volt mains to it, you are lucky to be here.
Worst shock I’ve had in recent years was when we were salvaging antique fixtures from the old church building that was due to be demolished. I made sure the light was off and started chiseling into the plaster to remove the fixture, all sweaty from other work. I hit a wire embedded in the plaster (a code violation for many decades) while leaning against a radiator and had a serious jolt. I later deduced that it was hot to light, then switch to neutral (a code violation in recent decades).
. - Posted by: @nate-the-surveyor
When I was about Jr High age, I had an old electric fence charger that I would run on discarded flashlight batteries that just barely were able to make it tick. Of course the jolt was much less than its intended application. My siblings recall many incidents of booby trapped objects with a hidden wire. I wasn’t quite eligible for the Cash clan, but did have some less than stellar activities.
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