True! Good input. At 05:52 AM 5/18/2008, you wrote:
>If I might insert a line on the power lines and any kind of ladder >usage . there comes a time when a blnd person needs to consider safety >and having to ask a sighted person for advice. I'd like to see all of >you stay on this list and not be fried. of course maybe to be fried by a >power line there might have to be some bad wires but that is possible >too. when I first moved here and bought with my wife my inlaws estate >we found the wiring to be really really outdated even the wires leading >to the meter were partially exposed. then I learned my lesson when >using a metal extension ladder one day and a nice or decent neighbor >yelling" stop Lee oh my gawd stop" apparently I wa sinches inches >from a bare spot on the lines leading to the house which over the years >had brushed up against the corner of the roof and the end of a gutter. >It sure is great that you and I as blind folks can do many things but >at the same time keep in mind that maybe, just maybe we need a sighted >person t scope out some jobs we are about to do.Lee > >On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:25:15PM +0100, Kevin Doucet >wrote: > > Wow! Thanks for the explanation. > > > > > > At 02:14 PM 5/17/2008, you wrote: > > > > >Kevin, a fiberglass ladder basically will not conduct electricity. > > >The problem lies with the voltage level and surface dirt. I am not > > >sure at what voltage level it starts at; but when around high > > >voltage lines that run on top of poles and near buildings, one has > > >to allow room. Voltages in the 12,000 to 15,000 volt range will > > >follow a path to ground, it does not necessarily need a conductor, > > >just a potential difference that leads to ground. Humid situations > > >with dirt lower path resistance and allow path flow at lower > > >voltages. One also has to remember that at those voltages, survival > > >rate is next to zero. > > >..................bob > > > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > >No virus found in this incoming message. > > >Checked by AVG. > > >Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1448 - Release Date: > > >5/16/2008 7:42 PM > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > Kevin Doucet > > <mailto:contactme%40kevindoucet.com>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > confuse as says > > > > Blind man with unmarked forehead has large belly! > > > > > >-- >Bullwinkle:You just leave that to my pal. He's the brains of the outfit. >General:What does that make YOU? >Bullwinkle:What else? An executive. >-- Jay Ward >Do you Jabber? I do. My JID is: ><mailto:stonedge%40jabber.org>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG. >Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.20/1453 - Release Date: >5/18/2008 9:31 AM Thanks. Kevin Doucet [EMAIL PROTECTED] confuse as says Blind man with unmarked forehead has large belly!
