Would you get electrocuted?

one way to find out....

epocheatsout wrote:

one way to find out....

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I doubt it if you're hanging on to just one single cable. Birds don't fry

I'm pretty sure that birds don't fry because they complete the circuit when both of their feet are touching. Because the circuit is completed, no charge builds in their bodies.

No they don't get fried because they aren't connected to anything that the electricity wants to be conducted to. If a bird were to touch a wire and the ground, though, it would get fried, because the electricity can go someplace once it is transferred into the ground.

When it is just the bird on the wire, though, the electricity would have to go out of its own way to go through the bird. Since electricity is lazy and always takes the shortest route, the birds and you both would not get fried... unless you were close enough to the ground or the metal tracks for the electricity to make a jump, but hopefully that wouldn't be the case.

You would have a voltage potential, but no current would flow as our atmosphere is a wonderful insulator. However, if you were to let go of the wire with one hand and touch another wire or anything else that is electrically conductive, current would flow through your body.

electricity doesn't take the shortest route, but the path of least resistance. The wire has less resistance than your body.

epocheatsout wrote:

one way to find out....

another way to find out would be to post it as a challenge on Lets Run.

OOps is that what just happened?

First the Beer Mile then the Powerline Hang how do we end this Triathalon?

Electrocuted? No. But it would not be a pleasant experience. When the linemen do hotstick work on the high lines, they have to wear special suits with hoods to make sure that every part of their body is at the same potential as the line. Otherwise, it would feel like bees stinging at any part of your body that isnt highly conductive.

what does it mean to get electrocuted? do you necessarily have to die?

Probably not. On Home Alone, the bad guy didn't.

If you put both hands on the wire, the current would go through you. If you put one hand on the wire, it might try to pass through you, but it wouldn't succeed.

Electricity will take the easiest pathway to earth.

It loves soft fleshy material such as the human body !

If you hang from over head conductors by one arm, 2 arms, or both arms and legs, provided you do not touch earth or anything connected to earth, then you will not get electrocuted.

But to get there safely you have to jump on and off without touch the lines and earth at the same time.

Live liners, whether they be hot stick or glove and barrier do not wear hoods in my country; they wear insulated gloves, and arm protectors, industry standard hard hat, safety eyewear, fire proof overalls, and work out of an insulated bucket truck, which is bonded to earth, so that should any stray current slip through a potential, but unlikely fault in their equipment it will take the path straight to earth.

All equipment undergoes regular electrical testing.

I do not have a high voltage (11,000 volts) live line certification, but are certified to work on live low voltage ( 400 volt service lines ).

The risks are still there for us standard lineys though, the 400 volt system kills far more people than the 11,000.

I don’t recommend it, but if you were to come into contact with the 11, you will get blown off, and may well lose bits of your body and live to tell the story.

But if you get hooked up in the 400, it will contract all the muscles in your body, and you can stay stuck there until you die.

The tricky jobs for us is when we work on the 400 volt lines, which hang directly under live 11,000 volt lines. We have what is called MAD’S which stands for Minimum Approach Distances.

The reason for this is that electricity gives off what is called ‘induction’.

In layman's terms that means that you don’t have to touch the conductors to get a shock, the current radiates around the conductor, and should you get too close without the right protective gear on, it will grab you, and whammo it’s lights out !

And yes I have been whacked, but thankfully I was one of the lucky ones and are still here with all my digits,and have learnt some valuable lessons.

Lineman thanks for the real skinny.

How much does an 11,000 guy make? and a 400 guy?

I've seen photos of guys fixing lines from a helicopter,do you do stuff like that?

marijuologist wrote:

what does it mean to get electrocuted? do you necessarily have to die?

Electrocution means DEATH by electricity, so YES, if you're electrocuted it means you're dead.

Online dictionaries are your friend --

So what you're saying is if one is electrocuted, then that person dies. But if the current doesn't kill you, then what is it called?

I'm sure I'll be shocked by your explanation...

Pamela Anderson's Left Nipple wrote:

So what you're saying is if one is electrocuted, then that person dies. But if the current doesn't kill you, then what is it called?

I'm sure I'll be shocked by your explanation...

It's called an electric shock.

Surprisingly.

But how come that kid was blown off the electric fence in Jurassic Spark?

Dumb spark wrote:

It's called an electric shock.

I'm shocked! Who would've known? Shocking, totally shocking!

Dumb spark wrote:

But how come that kid was blown off the electric fence in Jurassic Spark?

Hollywood thought it was cooler than what actually happens.