Calling sparkys

[WorkshopChris]

Red button should drop the breaker out, handle is used to charge it ready to close. Might be an idea to get DNO involved to "hard" isolate it?.

Thanks this was 20 years back,strange who the mind works i can see it as if its still in front of me, but couldn't think, logic said just pump to close but couldn't remember for sure. Just had a google but couldn't see much. i remember it was bit of brown trouser moment at the time, as the site had 2 hv transformers feeding the 2000a intake. Not something i would want to do every day.

 

[WorkshopChris]

was just going to twist it round and refit to the rebuilt wall

Farmers and electric do not mix, some of that old cable with the tar insulation is so brittle it can almost snap.

 

[evobilly666]

Farmers and electric do not mix, some of that old cable with the tar insulation is so brittle it can almost snap.

...and then burn like a roman candle as it's highly unlikely that the dno fuse next up the line will trip. Ive seen it happen. Fire brigade wouldn't touch the resulting fire until dno confirmed power up the street was off. By then it was too late to save the (uninsured) property. £2k for the dno to move the cutout seemed quite cheap after that. Felt bad for the owner that decided it was worth the risk, albeit against our advice.

 

[the snooper]

Farmers and electric do not mix, some of that old cable with the tar insulation is so brittle it can almost snap.

still got that in the substation here, lost power a few years ago ended up taking the engineer to the sub station as he couldn't find it, once in there, there was or had been tar dripping out of the cables, he said they are overloaded and was never intended for the power used today they have been there since the late 30s

 

[gaz1]

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Your welcome.

you forgot to add the wedding ring in there

 

[Wedg1e]

I still don't wear one, even though I'm not sparkying, just from force of habit of not wearing it.
Plus the wife showed me what happens when a wedding ring gets yanked off your finger forcibly...gross isn't the word

My uncle lost half a finger when he jumped a barbed wire fence and his signet ring got hooked.
'De-gloving' is the technical term when the flesh gets stripped (so Nursy tells me ).