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Thursday, July 21, 2011

It's shocking

Today I'm gonna write a shocking story bout when I got the hell shock out me.

I used to have me this old aluminum skill saw.  As long as ya had shoes on an' it weren't rain'n, it worked just like any other Skill saw....you know, cut wood and stuff.  Well, I were barefoot and the ground were wet from a recent rain. I pick up that saw, put that blade right on the line an' squeezes that trigger. YEEE HAAAA.....turn it off....TURN IT OFF!!!! I were subjected to electrocution....or something like that.

Then another time, I had me one them old aluminum 1/4 drills. I were work'n under a house drill'n holes in duck work for the air conditioning. Well, I lay down cross a gas line, pick up that drill and squeezes the trigger. YEEE HAAAA....turn it off....TURN IT OFF!!! I were be'n electrified.

Then another time.....I were work'n on a walk in cooler at a fast food chicken place. I had that cool'n coil all took apart an' all I had to do was yank the defrost heater out....what was burn slap out. So's I reach up, grab holt to that defrost coil and give a yank. I were stand'n on a wet floor in bout a inch of water....YEEE HAAAA.....turn it off....TURN IT OFF!!!! This were 230 volt of mean ass alternat'n current electricity....boy howdy I mean to tell ya. Helper just stood there look'n at me....think'n I were play'n some kind of game. Turn it off damn it....turn it off.

Back in my Navy days I were shipboard electrician. In the kitchen we had a bunch of 440 volt electric ovens. Well first thing I do is turn off the breaker....right over there on the wall (bulkhead on a ship). Then I tag it with a pretty red "do not turn on" sign. So's, I climbs in that over an' start tak'n stuff apart. Bout that time.....YEEE HAAA.....turn it off....TURN IT OFF!!! One the cooks ignore the little red "do not turn on" sign an' turn on the breaker. I were electrified. I were rush to the ship hospital and come out there with bruises from head to foot.

The worstest time I ever get electrified was on a 230 volt DC pump motor. Well, maybe the oven was the worstest, but let me tell ya, when you get holt of DC voltage, ya gonna know it. Somehows I reach my fingers in there where them brushes lived and......YEEE HAAAA....I were knock flat on my ass....tooo late to "turn it off".

Ok, gotta go put Slime in the tractor tires......

5 comments:

  1. Fast learner hey. Learned to say turn it off real fast.
    Mickey

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  2. I knew there was some reason I felt a connection to you. The state of TX knows me as TACL020686C. How 'bout them apples?

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  3. I slid my head around behind an evaporator in a walk in freezer a few years ago to look closely when a wire with a burned off connector slapped me on the ear. OOOOOWWW. That smarted!

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  4. Billy Bob with all your hell raising, getting drunk, raising cars and all your almost electrocutions...it is a wonder you are still with us!!

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  5. Hmmm. I'm wondering if all that electricity was good or bad for you. Been real busy moving south so have enjoyed catching up with your earthy posts.

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