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1. Container ships destroying bridges … Farmers destroying high voltage power towers … cats, dogs … living together … Muslims shutting down American colleges …

   End Times I tell you. We’re living in End Times.

   1. End Times sure, but with the second coming of Trump to smite & smote this evil plague we’re not done yet.

      1. [deleted. Stay on topic. ED]

      2. Nice!!! This is gonna be fun to watch.

2. I haven’t been drinking, ociffer. Swerved to miss a deer. I swear.

   1. I’m guessing they were asleep in the cab operating on GIS … which knew nothing about a high voltage tower. Modern Farming. The fields are plowed straighter than Jeremy Clarkson’s … but …

      PS … can’t wait to hear Quick Dick’s commentary …

      1. You bet.

   2. Is that your wife stuck in the grill?

      1. She looked like a deer … OK … a very well fed deer. I amuse myself per usual

   3. Bunny, you sound like my husband.
      Saskatchewan, you say? Looks like it could also be the stretch of Highway 401 through Chatham-Kent, Ontario.

3. Likely a young kid who remembered to make sure the overlap stayed where it belonged and watch the gauges. But didn’t check what was ahead. It would take a very patient dad/employer not to kill him over this lapse in attention.

4. Dial before you Disc!
   There could be foundations for a high voltage tower buried on your property.

   At any rate it’s impressive what big machinery is capable of. My 1947 Farmall Cub would have hit that tower like a slow-motion replay of a grasshopper hitting a windshield.

   1. Dial before you disc! Hahahaha ha ha ROTFL … is there such a thing? If not, there should be. Just like Dial 811 … right?

      https://call811.com/

      1. What you need to know if you have already hit the power line or come across a downed power line. This advice could save your life.

         https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jDU8XQkmDeQ

         1. Dang! I would never think to shuffle away from the live wire.

            1. Kenji – with everyone in California soon to be driving EVs, this is good to know, right? 🙂

            2. yep. all true. the issue is at those 6 digit votages, the voltage drop in the ground over the distance of a step way more than enough esp since it breeches the rule of contacting 2 conductors simultaneously: dont sent the current thru your chest. ie better to contact a hand and elbow same arm as opposed to each hand kind of thing.

            3. Actually, I’m gonna take live wire safety advice from the thieves who cut the Tesla high power fast charger cords … They must know how to properly ground themselves while cutting the giant copper wires.

      2. We need “dial before you disco” at least as urgently.

5. Yet another story of someone getting into trouble because they did what the GPS told them to do. Same guy has probably driven into a lake more than once.

   1. Geez…you’d think that they might try entering the coordinates of the towers into their GPS as spots to avoid! When I was fishing we had marks on our plotters of things not to drag the trawl over…sunk boats, boulders, spots where undersea cables were off the bottom, etc. Fishermen shared the coordinates of these around with one another.

6. Does anyone have a link to the actual news story?

   1. I was searching, turns out this sort of thing is unsettlingly not as rare as you’d think.

      1. Sounds like this is wildly exaggerated.

         1. I dunno man, I just searched “Saskatchewan tractor hits power line” or something like that in an image search and saw a few of them. The fact it’s more than one and so many people here instantly said “GPS” is telling.

   2. https://discoverweyburn.com/articles/saskpower-no-harm-in-farm-incident-involving-power-transmitter

7. Big time farmer in the Sarnia area had a unit pull down a tower. No word on what the claim might be when all of Chemical Valley had an outage. One shouldn’t ask.

8. That’s funny!

9. Back in the 70s the power companies were building a transmission line one some neighbouring farm land an dad chuckled wryly that with the ever increasing size of farm implements some farmer or his kid would snag one of those towers and bring it down. He never lived to see it happen but.

10. spoof

11. This happens every year. I work in electrical operations. We get the outage calls. Lots of transmission and distribution structures/poles in close proximity to arable lands, or in the midst of arable lands. The stories we get told from the alleged offenders must always be parsed for truths.

12. Where was this collision? I was looking at the SaskPower outage maps and didn’t see any unplanned outages. I’m guessing they can feed the customers from alternative lines or this wasn’t Saskatchewan?

13. it’s a spoof, I think.
    Looks staged. The tractor is in front of the tower, not under it.

14. I suspect someone got a new wider seeder but used last years GPS track to plant.

15. Tell me this was an Autonomous Rig..??

16. It’s bullsh*t. And a damn poor set up. Can’t even say “nice try”, it’s so phony.

    1. Look at Nick’s post above from yesterday with the story from Discover Weyburn.

17. Good thing they aren’t yet seeding using electric tractors, or a bunch of agriculture would have come to a halt.