First time I've ever had a rattlesnake climb into an electrical box. Glad he didn't get fried. This was the second snake picked up in the new Sunridge subdivision this year
Please tell me the neighborhood was without electricity from that enclosure! That snake could have stayed until it connected one of those phases to ground. The trip out would have got the attention of the power company. Once, we came to work after a 3 day weekend to our facility and found the whole place with no electricity. We looked inside the fence where some transformers stepped down the primary voltage to 480/240 VAC. Seems like an opossum could not resist climbing the ceramic insulators on the transformer. 7200 volts found its way through the animal to the transformer case! Knocked out one phase and took the whole facility off line.
Here is a real dilemma: you need someone who knows what he is doing around a electrical terminal box, you also need someone who knows what he is doing around a rattlesnake. Which one takes precedence? In the end it has to be the electrician because 8000 volts bites worse than a rattlesnake.
did i not hear, "can i poke my stick in there...NO, there's 9000 volts in there...and so the story goes. how many viewers were waiting for the electrical shock, sparks to go flying, and two guys (knuckleheads) on their kesters...oh, and fried rattlesnake for dinner. so many wrongs, but entertaining and good videoing.
FLYBOY123456789 there's 13,000 volts in there. In the U.S. we use a standard 4kv 13 kv 26kv underground system. A direct buried underground system like in this development is typically 13 kv (13,000 v)
FLYBOY123456789 if that snake grounded out the high or low side, it would go bang too, and probably kill these two, I remember one day I was at work and the sanitation crew was in a electrical room, on top of switch gear, spraying it with cleaner, sweeping it off! They didn't understand the hazards of their actions, just doing what their boss told them to do. As soon as I told them about it their mouths all dropped and they thanked me.
That snake could have blew them up, I would have left the snake alone, arc blasts aren't nice, I've been on jobs where switch gears blow up, scary shit
Why? Are you worried that my feet and ankles are at danger... when I've handled thousands of snakes, when I know strike distance, and when foot/ankle bites are the least-likely kind of rattlesnake bite statistically?
Real safe guys. Probably a 50 KVA transformer feed by a pass thru 13 kv line and open secondary and not a stich of PPE worn. (Personal Protection Equipment, for the regular man..... and actually this for the Underground Lineman too. Because he obviously doesn't know what it is either)
John Adamski ya. This entire video scared the fucking shit out of me. Not the rattle snake. I couldn’t care less about the fukn snake. But about the guy with metal tongs grabbing into a box all willy nilly.
Greg Shuffield Well that was a true quote of ignorance. If everyone kept SAFETY to themselves, we would have a bunch of dead cavemen. Ill be sure to take advice from YOU Greg, thanks for the tip. :-/
Nah probably just 1440v with a 120/240 secondary now the secondary is usually open but the primaries are pretty much sealed with a boot. But even still the secondaries can go boom but more likely the snake will just hum and smoke lol.
The video should be titled "How to get electrocuted and die" No hard hat, safety glasses, rubber sleeves, rubber gloves, over shoes, and used unknown tools to stick in the transformer instead of his shotgun stick or even long stick. Also that is most likely 14,400 volts.
This power guy should be fired, the power in that box is more dangerous than the snake...I like it when he had the snake guy put his sticks in the transformer also one wrong move and he would have been dead!
grassroot011 Been working safely with rattlesnakes for years, and you're the first person to suggest that my footwear isn't safe, haha! Not! Foot protection is for the snake that you don't know is coming, that you stumble into. If you know strike distancing at all, and where a snake is, there's no danger at all. But thanks for the critique
Drop some mothball inside the transformer box and leave, the smell will drive the snake out of the box. If he gets across a hot leg and ground, he'll blow a breaker and fry. Either way, oh well.
I agree man yall venomous snake handlers should have emergency lights and right of way bcuz just anybother emergency vehicle it could mean life or death
More like unaware of the safety issues of this kind of circumstance and was therefore following the lead and instructions of the expert who arrived to assist me. And I'd love to hear your ideas about how to more efficiently catch the snake in this circumstance. As far as the efficiency of release goes, I've been using the releases as an opportunity to get more comfortable using the hook, so that hopefully one day I can stop using tongs altogether. So thanks for your criticism, but you're wrong about my putting the video creation over any of these matters
Rattlesnakes hibernate in the same place year after year. Their winter hibernation is the only home they know to go to during the winter so when you relocate one you severely decrease their chances of living through the next winter
Well aware of this, and the locations of many of the winter dens. That is where the snakes are relocated to, the nearest known hibernaculum. This is all regulated and licensed through Alberta Fish and Game with species conservation in mind
abc xyz why is it stupid to release the snake? Snakes are an important part of the ecosystem. As long as you release it in an area that's far away from people, that's the right thing to do. It isn't the snakes fault that people are building homes in their natural habitat and causing encounters like this to happen. Rattlesnakes, and most other snakes, really just want to be as far away from people as possible. Bites happen when people step on them, poke at them or reach into their personal space so that they feel threatened and react. Killing it just because it's a snake is the stupid thing to do.
