 and wear shoes!
or not....be the ground! i have always done just about everything barefoot; from training horses to welding....everything except rollerskating!!!
only this week have i felt current from the clamp...put on shoes? no! solved by sitting on a wooden mechanic's creeper!
when i was in school, the welding instructor demonstrated the complete safety of arc welding by touching everybody with the stick...oi, nebraska!
sure, everybody is appalled at my barefoot state, but it came in handy to find an electrical fault that the "electrician" had made....
i had made some hay racks for the horses that had shoots going up to the hay loft...so hay could be dropped all the way down thru to the horse...one attachment point was the conduit.
when the "electrician" wired up the barn, he somehow made the conduit hot.
when the horses wouldn't eat, i found the short too...becauses i was barefoot.
the "electrician" wouldn't believe he had made such a mistake because he couldn't feel it...until i told him to take his shoes off! then he decided to check his work instead and found the hot conduit connection!!
thanks for the lesson in making sure the grinder doesn't fry!!
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