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  • austin20

    Watt did you say?

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  • Floyd621

    Do they call him Sparky..??

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  • austin20
    @...: 30330643283227/comments/30330673948827

    Do they call him Sparky..??

    not sure of his name but I do know what kind of car he drives..




    Voltswagon

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  • SW0320

    I was an electrician in the Navy and still have my eyebrows. ๐Ÿ˜€

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  • tnranger

    Reminds me of when, as a fresh faced kid, I "found" a 5k volt underground line with the State Parks backhoe - nice display of sparks and smoke. I had been told that the rubber tires would keep me safe unless I created a ground by stepping off the machine. Seemed like forever until the Superintendent wondered where I was and rescued me by shutting down the power. I don't know til this day whether I would have been fried by stepping off the backhoe, but I sure wasn't about to find out.

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  • Ditch-Runner

    like the wood shop teacher with two or three fingers missing

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  • Ruger4me

    When I worked in cable tv early 80s just out of the Army my co-worker with a jack hammer hit an underground electric and it blew him out of the hole, scared the crap out of me, he survived with some minor numbness but he was already a little screwed up so didn't notice much difference... I also remember the wood shop teacher with the missing fingers, kind of always wondered about that...

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  • KenK/84Bravo

    That is Low Brow Humor. ๐Ÿค”


    I also was a "Heavy Equipment Operator" at a "in the Boonies," Sawmill here in Mtn City. Most of the "Old Timers," were missing a finger here or there. ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

    It was a very dangerous job. I took two logs through my Grapple Loader window, (Volvo L90E) in a two year time frame. (Not my fault.)

    Crappy pay, Crappy benefits, found a new job.

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  • elubsme
    SW0320: 30330643283227/comments/30330646621723

    I was an electrician in the Navy and still have my eyebrows. ๐Ÿ˜€

    Seabees??? MCB-10 here.

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  • SW0320
    elubsme: 30330643283227/comments/30330668421147

    https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11382848#Comment_11382848

    Seabees??? MCB-10 here.

    No tried for a slot in the Seabees but there were no openings at the time.

    Was on a destroyer DDG-17. It is no longer in service it had a forward boiler room fire burnt through the 04 level, killed 18 sailors and one officer.

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  • elubsme
    SW0320: 30330643283227/comments/30330692383515

    https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11383018#Comment_11383018

    No tried for a slot in the Seabees but there were no openings at the time.

    Was on a destroyer DDG-17. It is no longer in service it had a forward boiler room fire burnt through the 04 level, killed 18 sailors and one officer.

    Long shot, thought we may have known each other.

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  • austin20
    Ditch-Runner: 30330643283227/comments/30330675554971

    like the wood shop teacher with two or three fingers missing


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  • toad67
    tnranger: 30330643283227/comments/30330646791963

    Reminds me of when, as a fresh faced kid, I "found" a 5k volt underground line with the State Parks backhoe - nice display of sparks and smoke. I had been told that the rubber tires would keep me safe unless I created a ground by stepping off the machine. Seemed like forever until the Superintendent wondered where I was and rescued me by shutting down the power. I don't know til this day whether I would have been fried by stepping off the backhoe, but I sure wasn't about to find out.

    Jump off with both feet at the same time, don't step off and create a circuit.

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  • tnranger
    toad67: 30330643283227/comments/30330693518491

    https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11382851#Comment_11382851

    Jump off with both feet at the same time, don't step off and create a circuit.

    Thought about that at the time, but didn't think it was worth risking something I thought might work. Comparatively, the backhoe seat seemed mighty comfortable, even if a might cold.

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