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Cutting a live power cable.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...089#post180105
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...134#post138227
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...080#post141129
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...500#post135831
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...506#post132064
You can only play that joke on the new guy once.
Wow. Hope those were NOT steel conduits he was standing on. OSHA would crap their pants on that one.
He needs a longer handled hammer. Wonder how much flopping around the freshly cut live cables do after that.
I thought most people did this using a backhoe or excavator…
Could someone explain what's going on here? I mean, I understand he's trying to cut a large, live cable, presumably because there's no disconnect on the grid end, but what then? Are they going to try to seal/insulate the hot cable end and bury it? Maybe, this was a way to trip the breaker on the pole to kill the power? Whatever they are trying to do, it brings back memories from college when I cut through a line cord, forgetting I hadn't unplugged it from the wall, and ended up with a pair of dikes with only one jaw.