Lucky to be alive

farmer656 · Sep 2, 2021

This driver raised his bed into some high voltage lines , it was a shiny aluminum trailer

fixerupper · Sep 2, 2021

Ill bet that got his attention. Around here a feed truck driver will forget to lower his auger at a hog site and take down the power lines on the way out the lane. Usually tires blow out but not always.

Steve@Advance · Sep 2, 2021

I watched a raised trailer pull out of a construction site and snag a set or high voltage lines once.

I didn't see the trailer afterward, so I don't know what it did to it. But it took down the lines with a flash and a boom, and it was over. He was probably running 20-30 MPH when he hit the lines.

The driver let the trailer down and didn't stop!

el6147 · Sep 2, 2021

The definition of lucky: When preparation and opportunity meet.

I'm guessing he neither was prepared or felt other wise opportune.

brentb · Sep 2, 2021

I saw a gin pole truck that was backing up a hill and hit some power lines When he hit the lines he pushed the clutch in and luckily the truck rolled away from the lines and then for whatever reason he let the clutch out and did it again. When it was over no one was hurt but I do remember the rubber falling off of the rims when he was touching the wires

JDB · Sep 2, 2021

Thank God he is alive!

sms · Sep 3, 2021

Few years ago here a driver of a concrete pump truck was washing out and swung the boom too close to the power lines. Since he was standing in water he wasn't so lucky.

showcrop · Sep 3, 2021

(quoted from post at 19:41:03 09/02/21) I saw a gin pole truck that was backing up a hill and hit some power lines When he hit the lines he pushed the clutch in and luckily the truck rolled away from the lines and then for whatever reason he let the clutch out and did it again. When it was over no one was hurt but I do remember the rubber falling off of the rims when he was touching the wires

Brent, I'll bet that he didn't have a reason. He my have been a little shook up and not thinking, LOL.

Hdonly · Sep 3, 2021

As long as the driver was in the truck, he was pretty safe. The electricity is going to travel through the truck to ground many times blowing out the tires when it jumps from the metal wheels to earth.

miangus · Sep 3, 2021

He is lucky. That's what's called a third party contact in the electric industry, it's usually a polite name for a fatality. I had a job for awhile where they were reported to me. The protective equipment in the substation cannot distinguish between a fault and the load on the circuit(the new fancier equipment supposedly can do a better job). Often with gravel trains there is enough energy to set the tires and fuel on fire. Be careful.

Keith True · Sep 3, 2021

I worked for a contractor in the 80's that ran dump trailers.A driver called on the radio,and said he just blew tire.He was empty so I said bring it in slow and I would throw one on for him.Three minutes later he called with another blowout,and not next to the one that already blew.The boss in the office was listening to the radio chatter in the office,and asked if he had dumped near the power lines.He had,but with more than 10 feet of clearance.He told me to get 8 tires ready,he knew what had happened,and had done it himself.It was humid and enough juice had jumped through the air to turn the steel in the tires into toaster wires.He blew 2 more on the way back.We didn't lose any wheel bearings in that incident,but the boss said he had lost them when he did it years before.

Bret4207 · Sep 3, 2021

One of the guys on my truck unit got electrocuted helping a guy change a flat on an antique firetruck. The owner, a pro fireman from Ontario, was swinging the ladder to the side to get some weight off the flat and hit the power wires. My friend was under the truck. Killed both of them.

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