I grew up on a farm and the weekends of my youth invariably involved working on the farm for my father. One Sunday I had to hook up a trailer to take waste out to be burned in one of our fields. The tractor I was driving had a front end loader [deere.com], the bucket wasn't fitted it was just the arms. So I'm looking backwards over my shoulder reversing in to the trailer to hook it on when I hear a loud bang. Because I hadn't been paying attention to the front of the tractor I hadn't noticed that the FEL arm had swung under the tension wire supporting the electricity power pole in the middle of the yard (yeah stupid place for it). I had pulled the whole pole over towards me and the power lines had snapped. Unfortunately for one of our cows it was scratching its arse against a metal gate where the power lines landed and got blown away. It was on it's back with its leg twitching in the air. I thought it was well cooked and I was in shit with dad. However after 10mins it was up and off munching grass as if nothing had happened. Tough animals, cows. The major damage was that I blew out the power grid for all of East Kilbride [wikipedia.org] on a Sunday afternoon. The power company guys weren't pleased about their Sunday call out, or the angry phone calls about spoiled Sunday roast dinners, but my father was pleased because they not only reconnected it but moved the pole to a more sensible location where it wasn't in our way anymore.
You did not give the GPS coordinates of the new pole's location. If still present, lots of us, (okay maybe the extremely bored, quarantine crazed people), might like to google satellite view the location.
So, if you don't mind, GPS please.
And 2 thumbs up for giving us the name and link to the town, (in Scotland no less!).
This is the best I can find using google maps. [google.com] You can just make out a thin black shadow on the ground coming from the side of the building. That's the pole that was moved up against the building, out of the way. It's original location was at the corner edge of that concrete the shadow is lying on.
Now scroll down and you'll see another pole shadow at the edge of the field. The layout was a bit different back in the 80's but next to that pole was where the metal gate, and cow, was. The farm is closer to Glasgow b
Electrocuted a Cow (Score:5, Interesting)
I grew up on a farm and the weekends of my youth invariably involved working on the farm for my father.
One Sunday I had to hook up a trailer to take waste out to be burned in one of our fields.
The tractor I was driving had a front end loader [deere.com], the bucket wasn't fitted it was just the arms.
So I'm looking backwards over my shoulder reversing in to the trailer to hook it on when I hear a loud bang.
Because I hadn't been paying attention to the front of the tractor I hadn't noticed that the FEL arm had swung under the tension wire supporting the electricity power pole in the middle of the yard (yeah stupid place for it).
I had pulled the whole pole over towards me and the power lines had snapped.
Unfortunately for one of our cows it was scratching its arse against a metal gate where the power lines landed and got blown away.
It was on it's back with its leg twitching in the air. I thought it was well cooked and I was in shit with dad.
However after 10mins it was up and off munching grass as if nothing had happened. Tough animals, cows.
The major damage was that I blew out the power grid for all of East Kilbride [wikipedia.org] on a Sunday afternoon.
The power company guys weren't pleased about their Sunday call out, or the angry phone calls about spoiled Sunday roast dinners, but my father was pleased because they not only reconnected it but moved the pole to a more sensible location where it wasn't in our way anymore.
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OMG this wins.
Re:Electrocuted a Cow - GPS please? (Score:2)
So, if you don't mind, GPS please.
And 2 thumbs up for giving us the name and link to the town, (in Scotland no less!).
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This is the best I can find using google maps. [google.com]
You can just make out a thin black shadow on the ground coming from the side of the building.
That's the pole that was moved up against the building, out of the way.
It's original location was at the corner edge of that concrete the shadow is lying on.
Now scroll down and you'll see another pole shadow at the edge of the field.
The layout was a bit different back in the 80's but next to that pole was where the metal gate, and cow, was.
The farm is closer to Glasgow b
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Scotland is on my bucket list, though the way things are going, I am going to kick the bucket before I get a change to empty my bucket list.
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If he *had* electrocuted her, he could've provided the neighbors with replacement roasts!