Re: Top Gear

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:06:38 -0000, Huw wrote:

Even if a live wire fell on a tractor, I don't think it would
harm the driver unless he tried to dismount. Maybe someone had experience of
this?

No directly but the contractor who did the field across the road snagged
the pole and disrupted electricity to the house while we were in Italy a
few years ago. We lost about £500 in stuff in the freezers and I was very
glad I had given up an earlier trade in biological samples (could have cost
100s of 1000s). The contractor of course denied everything then gave me a
lecture on claiming off *my* insurance, git.

The live conductors lay across the land and over an "A" road for about a
week. No one noticed, no one was harmed, not even the cyclists or
pedestrians. Which I reckon was a miracle.
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