electrocution!!!

[GeoffE]

If I remember when I was a nipper the electric fence around livestock was only a 12 or 24 volt battery.

Hi Ricky

Aye, the battery is only 12 or 24 volts (same as in a car/lorry) but, as in a car, several thousand volts are used http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/NicoleCastellano.shtml

[ricky1]

Hi Geoff

I remember it used to give a big kick, but wouldnt have thought it would have killed someone unless they had a weak heart

[d.weaving]

I always thought it was the Amps that killed not the voltage.
Derek.

[bobgraham]

2 things.
1 Derek are you related to a Brampton Weavings?
2 Around the 60's  (and if you can remember them you weren't there, remember) there was an electrocution of a youth behind elterwater av. in workington but this was where he had climbed a pylon  and hadn't realised just how far high voltage can jump.
I don't remember any more details and wouldn't even recall it except my grandparents lived on elterwater at the time and they lived there from about 1959.
Could this be a euphemised story of the poor boy being electrocuted but by being where he shouldn't have been?
bob

[d.weaving]

2 things.
1 Derek are you related to a Brampton Weavings?
2 Around the 60's  (and if you can remember them you weren't there, remember) there was an electrocution of a youth behind elterwater av. in workington but this was where he had climbed a pylon  and hadn't realised just how far high voltage can jump.
I don't remember any more details and wouldn't even recall it except my grandparents lived on elterwater at the time and they lived there from about 1959.
Could this be a euphemised story of the poor boy being electrocuted but by being where he shouldn't have been?
bob

Bob...can't say I am related to a Brampton Weaving...all of mine are from Gloucestershire.
Derek.

[meles]

Bob

That's a very credible story.  More likely than a fence.

meles

[bobgraham]

Derek,
I only asked as there is a Dr. P. Weaving at the Brampton practice. He could have come from anywhere I suppose.
bob

[cass]

Thanks for everyones answers. Unfortunatley the only details I remember is 'uncle Buster'. The one that Bobgraham mentioned seems the most reasonable as I seem to remember pylons. But it would seem that Buster was old enough to be referred to as uncle. Cass

[ricky1]

Hi Cass

Just because he was called Uncle dont mean to say he was old. I have an Uncle who is only 10 years older than me and an Auntie who is only 5 years older than me.

ricky