Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 2]
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AstonZagato said:
Someone who actually knows will be along shortly but I can tell you that they have been used to make the wires more visible to birds.
Someone I know who runs a shoot had a set of high voltage wires that ran over a drive. The birds would crash into the wires killing themselves (it almost cuts them in half). He phoned the electricity company and they installed those discs. Apparently the birds aslo potentially damage the wires (not sure how) so they were as keen to avoid it as the estate owner.
Not sure about the lines "cuts them in half". Those power lines you see hanging from your average pylon are not some thin bits of wire like they appear from a distance, they're typically about as thick as a sewage pipe and weigh a ton. However, flying into them will ultimately result in the same thing, I agree.Someone I know who runs a shoot had a set of high voltage wires that ran over a drive. The birds would crash into the wires killing themselves (it almost cuts them in half). He phoned the electricity company and they installed those discs. Apparently the birds aslo potentially damage the wires (not sure how) so they were as keen to avoid it as the estate owner.
AstonZagato said:
Someone who actually knows will be along shortly but I can tell you that they have been used to make the wires more visible to birds.
Someone I know who runs a shoot had a set of high voltage wires that ran over a drive. The birds would crash into the wires killing themselves (it almost cuts them in half). He phoned the electricity company and they installed those discs. Apparently the birds aslo potentially damage the wires (not sure how) so they were as keen to avoid it as the estate owner.
ahh that makes sense, thank you for your answers, it will finally not bug me every morning now!Someone I know who runs a shoot had a set of high voltage wires that ran over a drive. The birds would crash into the wires killing themselves (it almost cuts them in half). He phoned the electricity company and they installed those discs. Apparently the birds aslo potentially damage the wires (not sure how) so they were as keen to avoid it as the estate owner.
All that jazz said:
AstonZagato said:
Someone who actually knows will be along shortly but I can tell you that they have been used to make the wires more visible to birds.
Someone I know who runs a shoot had a set of high voltage wires that ran over a drive. The birds would crash into the wires killing themselves (it almost cuts them in half). He phoned the electricity company and they installed those discs. Apparently the birds aslo potentially damage the wires (not sure how) so they were as keen to avoid it as the estate owner.
Not sure about the lines "cuts them in half". Those power lines you see hanging from your average pylon are not some thin bits of wire like they appear from a distance, they're typically about as thick as a sewage pipe and weigh a ton. However, flying into them will ultimately result in the same thing, I agree.Someone I know who runs a shoot had a set of high voltage wires that ran over a drive. The birds would crash into the wires killing themselves (it almost cuts them in half). He phoned the electricity company and they installed those discs. Apparently the birds aslo potentially damage the wires (not sure how) so they were as keen to avoid it as the estate owner.
AstonZagato said:
All that jazz said:
AstonZagato said:
Someone who actually knows will be along shortly but I can tell you that they have been used to make the wires more visible to birds.
Someone I know who runs a shoot had a set of high voltage wires that ran over a drive. The birds would crash into the wires killing themselves (it almost cuts them in half). He phoned the electricity company and they installed those discs. Apparently the birds aslo potentially damage the wires (not sure how) so they were as keen to avoid it as the estate owner.
Not sure about the lines "cuts them in half". Those power lines you see hanging from your average pylon are not some thin bits of wire like they appear from a distance, they're typically about as thick as a sewage pipe and weigh a ton. However, flying into them will ultimately result in the same thing, I agree.Someone I know who runs a shoot had a set of high voltage wires that ran over a drive. The birds would crash into the wires killing themselves (it almost cuts them in half). He phoned the electricity company and they installed those discs. Apparently the birds aslo potentially damage the wires (not sure how) so they were as keen to avoid it as the estate owner.
MV and LV cables will obviously be thinner, though.
Edited by All that jazz on Friday 7th November 12:52
AJS- said:
Just what the hell is going on in Coming Round The Mountain?
Who is this woman? And why is she driving 6 white horses round a mountain, in her pyjamas?
I don't know but she has some seriously deviant sexual practices.Who is this woman? And why is she driving 6 white horses round a mountain, in her pyjamas?
"She'll be riding six white horses when she comes..."
ETA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She%27ll_Be_Coming_%2...
mattdaniels said:
krunchkin said:
why do trucks and buses have some wheels in which the centre points outwards and some where the centre is sunk inwards?
Why does this question keep getting asked (and answered) on here?What is the fascination with inny and outy wheels?
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