[AT] OT: Lucky break and a very lucky break.

[charlie hill]

Yep you got really lucky.
I knew a guy that died that way.
Cut a big oak and when it started to fall he turned and
walked away but something cause the tree to twist and fall in
the wrong direction.  He never knew what hit him.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Will Powell
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 7:05 AM
To: email, Antique
Subject: Re: [AT] OT: Lucky break and a very lucky break.

Yes, that was a lucky break.

I guess I will confess that I had one yesterday also.

An ash tree had fallen in my woods (an ash bore victim)  and I decided to 
section it up into 10 food sections and eventually pull it out with a 
tractor.

I have an old growth forest and all of the trees go straight up to compete 
for the sunlight.

On the way down the ash knocked over the top of an oak tree about 30 feet up 
in the air. The oak was still connected but the top was tangled on the 
ground with the top of the ash. At the break the oak was about 6-8 inches in 
diameter. I knew that the oak would require some attention and thought I 
would come back with a long chain later and attend to it.

Started sectioning the ash, got three 10 foot large sections cut and moved 
toward the top. I cut a 6 inch diameter section which released some of the 
energy in the top and it rolled away from the trunk..... All of a sudden the 
top of the oak thumped down in front of my face, about 12 inches away 
parallel  to the ash. It shook the ground.

Well, that was really a widow maker. I've cut down well over 50 large old 
growth trees, some over 30 inches in diameter and I've never been this close 
to major injury or potential death...

Need to keep my guard up with tractors and trees. I'm always going to 
address the leaners first from now on. Upright trees have so much potential 
energy...

I won't be telling my wife about this one.



Regards,

Will

SE PA.

----- Original Message -----

From: "hill, charlie" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "email, Antique" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 10:45:06 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT:  Lucky break and a very lucky break.

Well it's very certainly 220 V.  Actually the capacitor might only
be pulling from one leg and might just be 110 V but it's got
a lot of kick coming out. It would have smarted!

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 9:55 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] OT: Lucky break and a very lucky break.

Glad you're OK Charlie, I don't mind working with 110v, but when working
with 220v, I'm VERY careful.

Mike M
On 9/2/2014 8:08 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>
> My air conditioning went out today.  I could tell by the way it was trying
> to start
> and failing that it was something to do with the start capacitor.  Well I
> just replaced
> that a few months ago so I was figuring I got a bad one.  I disconnected
> the
> power,
> pulled the cover off and thought myself lucky to find that one of the wire
> connectors
> that fastened a wire to the capacitor had corroded and burned into.  No
> problem, I can
> fix that.  I grounded out the capacitor for safety reasons,  pulled the
> old
> connector off
> the lug, put a new connector on the cleaned up wire and stuck it back on
> the
> capacitor.
> What's this ..... a big spark.  Turns out I had not grounded out the
> capacitor.  I attempted
> to but apparently my screw driver didn't find a good ground when I did it.
> That's what I mean by a very lucky break.  I could have been badly shocked
> and maybe even
> injured.  Just by fate I didn't hit the lug on the capacitor with my hand
> in
> the process.
> Well, not exactly luck because I'm always careful around electricity but I
> could have accidentally
> hit it.
>
> Just a reminder to myself and everyone else to be careful and check twice.
> Yes the AC fired off and runs fine now.  Cost me about a dime.
> Wonder what that would have cost me if I'd called the service rep?
>
> Charlie
>
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