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High Guide electrical wires in your back yard?

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My son is looking at a house that has electrical towers running behind the property! Somewhere as I remember these aren't a safe scenario?
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  • Maalox
    I don't have any hard data on the harmful effects of hi voltage lines close to homes but I would not buy a home with these in close proximity.
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  • bpost
    He can forget AM radio reception the HV lines play havoc with it.
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  • Hessian
    They say depending on the voltage 200+ yards is the safe distance. I'd guess they affect some people more than others. I used to work with really large electric motors, I'd feel disoriented on occasion. I used to think it was all in my mind :) until I replaced half a dozen digital watches in a relatively short time period and scrambled the brains in numerous digital VOM meters.

    A lot of studies about the effects of strong magnetic fields, mostly RF and MW. None of them have good things to say.
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  • mrmike08075
    :( when you can walk around with fluorescent bulb tubes in your hands and they spark up from energy radiated from power lines you may want to reconsider having a domicile in such close proximity...

    Mike
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  • Smitty500mag
    I wouldn't chance it. If it's a great deal there's probably a reason for it.
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  • brier-49
    A friend of mine in PA has lines right there at his backyard, been there for years no problems at all.
    Where I shoot here in CT the lines are right there & so is the house, no problems there either.
    I've been shooting there for at least 20 years,
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  • spasmcreek
    grab your test fluorescent bulb and walk around......let us know ...i would not live there though..always scared me farming when i went under big cross country lines and the dust would blow up there..i was told the electric charge was carried in a corona around the wire ????......neighbor kid knocked down a REA pole leading to a farmstead...he stayed IN the tractor cab till crews got there but the voltage going thru the steel belted tires to the ground put a zillion tiny holes thru the tractor tires and the disc tires...had to buy all new...
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  • mrmike08075
    It's all about blind spots and comfort zones...

    How much radiated energy does your cell phone produce - I was born in 1971 and while a child raised on science and science fiction I must remind myself how much energy is radiated providing wireless connection from my phone and the cell tower network or satellite string of pearls comsat and GPS low earth orbital platforms...

    And that the phone is always powered up and updating and tethered even when not in active use and it's kept in close proximity to our brains and primary sensory organ cluster and genitalia...

    Did madame Curie suspect she would end up irradiated and glowing in the dark...

    In grade school my father's class played with / handled room temperature liquid mercury and asbestos fibers and fiberglass insulation...

    I have a watch (longine wittenauer) packed away that has hand painted radium hash marks and numbers - I have a set of night sights stashed away and that brightly fluoresce in zero light conditions...

    Heck I have a discarding saboted submunition high velocity monolithic solid depleted uranium dart used in anti tank munitions - smoke detectors still contain americium...

    And I am all to familiar with the effects of chemical and radiation poisoning.

    Yes the navy can keep a crew healthy in a sub underwater were for 6 months you are never very fat from a nuclear reactor...

    We don't know what we don't know.

    Mike
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  • JamesRK
    A bunch of years ago I was driving through one of the Midwestern states, I think it was North or South Dakota but don?t remember for sure. There was high voltage power lines strung on towers for as far as I could see in both directions. I had to take a leak and I was the only somebody on the road, so I did the reasonable thing and pulled off the road and got out. The wires were singing. As soon as my feet hit the ground every hair on my body stood up. I didn?t unzip, I got back in the car and held it until those wires weren?t in my rear view mirror no more. I don?t know if there was a real danger, but it scared hell out of me.
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  • bullshot
    Tell him to keep looking
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  • Toolman286
    One township required the buyers of houses near power transmission lines to sign wavers that held the twsp. harmless for issuing the building permits.
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  • BobJudy
    Over one side of our property runs high voltage transmission lines. We had no choice as the power companies here in Michigan have never lost a case when property owners took them to court. They had to pay dearly for the easement but I'd give the money back if they would take the lines down. Neighbors don't seem to mind and they are only about 50 yards from their house. It is about 250 yards away from ours and when it is super humid or raining the hum is kinda loud. Not sure how they stand the noise being so close. Did some research when they put the lines in and don't think I'll grow a third eye or arm. They are ugly, somewhat noisy and restrict what I can do with the land in the easement. For those reasons I'd say pass. Bob
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  • Cornflk1
    mrmike08075 wrote:
    :( when you can walk around with fluorescent bulb tubes in your hands and they spark up from energy radiated from power lines you may want to reconsider having a domicile in such close proximity...

    Mike

    Yes, an excellent test.
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  • mjrfd99
    mrmike08075 wrote:
    :( when you can walk around with fluorescent bulb tubes in your hands and they spark up from energy radiated from power lines you may want to reconsider having a domicile in such close proximity...

    Mike

    Yep. NOT a good idea IMO.
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  • NeoBlackdog
    An electrician buddy of mine tells a story about a rancher to our west over in Umatilla county that has those lines running across his property. According to my buddy the rancher took some 4x8 sheets of plywood mounted on stands, wrapped 'em with copper wire and placed them under the lines. According to him the rancher was able to run lines to the house and pretty much do away with his electric bill. Don't know if it's true or not, but I sure wouldn't want to live under those lines!
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  • diver-rig
    NeoBlackdog wrote:
    An electrician buddy of mine tells a story about a rancher to our west over in Umatilla county that has those lines running across his property. According to my buddy the rancher took some 4x8 sheets of plywood mounted on stands, wrapped 'em with copper wire and placed them under the lines. According to him the rancher was able to run lines to the house and pretty much do away with his electric bill. Don't know if it's true or not, but I sure wouldn't want to live under those lines!

    Up in the north woods of minnersota, my extended family used to hunt deer along the power lines cutting through the woods.

    Heard tales of the electric companies going out and looking for transformers laying under these lines on the ground. Seems fellars would do this, then power up their hunting shacks out in the woods.

    Heard tell you will have the wrath of the power companies coming down on you, if caught. Much like the phone cops came after Johnny Fever.
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  • Grasshopper
    It a chance I would buy it- 0%
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  • roswellnative
    Gotta think about resale someday... I would say homes in view are 10-15 percent lower than similar homes w/0
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  • babun
    diver-rig wrote:
    NeoBlackdog wrote:
    An electrician buddy of mine tells a story about a rancher to our west over in Umatilla county that has those lines running across his property. According to my buddy the rancher took some 4x8 sheets of plywood mounted on stands, wrapped 'em with copper wire and placed them under the lines. According to him the rancher was able to run lines to the house and pretty much do away with his electric bill. Don't know if it's true or not, but I sure wouldn't want to live under those lines!

    Up in the north woods of minnersota, my extended family used to hunt deer along the power lines cutting through the woods.

    Heard tales of the electric companies going out and looking for transformers laying under these lines on the ground. Seems fellars would do this, then power up their hunting shacks out in the woods.

    Heard tell you will have the wrath of the power companies coming down on you, if caught. Much like the phone cops came after Johnny Fever.

    Wow!!! 2 totally false tall tales about the same thing. :lol:

    Transformers under high power lines???? Where did they get a transformer that drops
    514,000 volts of the common hi lines to 240 volts? :lol:
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  • bustedknee
    There are buried power lines all over the place.

    We live, work, and play near them all the time and no one worries.

    Tell him to don't look up and everything will be OK.
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  • 11b6r
    There have been arguments for years about health hazards from the magnetic fields associated with ultra high voltage powerlines.

    There are none I have seen that show a direct causation of health problems.

    The biggest issue is going to be the effect that those lines will have on the property value, and the time it will take to sell the property when it is time to leave. Buyer is looking at 5 houses- one has a honking big 250,000 volt power line, BIG tower-yeah, let's look at those other 4 again....

    PS- re: tires of a vehicle in contact with a high voltage line- tires are not rubber. If they were, they would be white- like early rubber condoms were. They are rubber mixed with a lot of other things, including carbon black- which conducts electricity. Not really well, but it does- enough to heat up a tire until it catches fire and/or explodes.
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