Ha, that's nothing. I once watched a stubborn guy replace the bus bars in the input panel of a house. He did wear rubber gloves and boots and stand on a plastic stool. But, this is a kind of job where you are operating a socket wrench on the clamps holding down the bare ends of the thick direct-burial power cables, then wrestling the ends of the cable out of the way to unscrew and remove the bus-work from the panel chassis.
He did this without notifying the power company, so those supply lines were hot with 240V residential service. The weather shifted and a light mist started falling before he was done. Like another poster above, I was thinking I need to be ready to call 911, but wanting to be far enough away not to be hit by splattering metal or any surprise voltage gradients in the soil.
He did this without notifying the power company, so those supply lines were hot with 240V residential service. The weather shifted and a light mist started falling before he was done. Like another poster above, I was thinking I need to be ready to call 911, but wanting to be far enough away not to be hit by splattering metal or any surprise voltage gradients in the soil.