stock panels and lightning????

we have three paddock/stall areas enclosed with 10ft x5ft (tall) galvanized stock panels. SWMBO and I were at a pasture trimming hooves when a storm pops up before schedule( :roll: )..... I was on my scooter and her in her vehicle. I got home just ahead of the rain but there was gail winds lightshows and crashing thunder... She wasn't home so I take the car to look her. Find her cleaning one of the paddocks surrounded by the nice shiny panels........... Got her outta there and in her vehicle just before the downpour hit and we got home...... She can't understand why I was upset...

Anyway, should I have these grounded? Each place consists of about 250 ft of panels clamped solid together. Or would it serve any purpose? Never really gave it a thought until today when she was there with the storm..... Scared he!! outta this little fat guy...... All I could think of was one of them cartoons where the cat grabs a wire and you just see the skeleton, and that I need to get a healthy life insurance policy on the old bat.........

(quoted from post at 17:17:20 09/11/12) we have three paddock/stall areas enclosed with 10ft x5ft (tall) galvanized stock panels. SWMBO and I were at a pasture trimming hooves when a storm pops up before schedule( :roll: )..... I was on my scooter and her in her vehicle. I got home just ahead of the rain but there was gail winds lightshows and crashing thunder... She wasn't home so I take the car to look her. Find her cleaning one of the paddocks surrounded by the nice shiny panels........... Got her outta there and in her vehicle just before the downpour hit and we got home...... She can't understand why I was upset...

Anyway, should I have these grounded? Each place consists of about 250 ft of panels clamped solid together. Or would it serve any purpose? Never really gave it a thought until today when she was there with the storm..... Scared he!! outta this little fat guy...... All I could think of was one of them cartoons where the cat grabs a wire and you just see the skeleton, and that I need to get a healthy life insurance policy on the old bat.........

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:lol: :lol: ...sorry, can't help you. All I have stuck in my head is the image of the 'cat skeleton' thingy... :lol: :lol: :lol:

That's just all I can picture at the moment.

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(quoted from post at 17:17:20 09/11/12) we have three paddock/stall areas enclosed with 10ft x5ft (tall) galvanized stock panels. SWMBO and I were at a pasture trimming hooves when a storm pops up before schedule( :roll: )..... I was on my scooter and her in her vehicle. I got home just ahead of the rain but there was gail winds lightshows and crashing thunder... She wasn't home so I take the car to look her. Find her cleaning one of the paddocks surrounded by the nice shiny panels........... Got her outta there and in her vehicle just before the downpour hit and we got home...... She can't understand why I was upset...

Anyway, should I have these grounded? Each place consists of about 250 ft of panels clamped solid together. Or would it serve any purpose? Never really gave it a thought until today when she was there with the storm..... Scared he!! outta this little fat guy...... All I could think of was one of them cartoons where the cat grabs a wire and you just see the skeleton, and that I need to get a healthy life insurance policy on the old bat.........

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:lol: :lol: ...sorry, can't help you. All I have stuck in my head is the image of the 'cat skeleton' thingy... :lol: :lol: :lol:

That's just all I can picture at the moment.

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Gotta love Tom & Jerry.........

Could you tell me what SWMBO means

jimmy

(quoted from post at 09:42:42 09/11/12) Could you tell me what SWMBO means

jimmy

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She Who Must Be Obeyed....... or wife.....

I could never figure that out either

The term was coined by John Mortimer's character Horace Rumpole, a fictional barrister and protagonist of the Rumpole of the Bailey books, which were made into TV episodes as well. He refers to his wife as She Who Must Be Obeyed (though not to her face). The abbreviation came about during the digital age as far as I know.
Zach

If they are metal and setting on the ground, they should already be grounded as good as they ever will be.

What kind of posts? Now you have me thinking but I
think I would just get some "T" posts and drive a
few in and wire them to the panels, between the
panels sitting on the ground and the "T" posts
you'd be somewhat grounded.

(quoted from post at 10:29:23 09/11/12) What kind of posts? Now you have me thinking but I
think I would just get some "T" posts and drive a
few in and wire them to the panels, between the
panels sitting on the ground and the "T" posts
you'd be somewhat grounded.

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No posts, but they do need "tightened" up a little... I'll be driving some 2" galvanized posts and will clamp them tight. They are setting on cement pavers...

Thanks

my guess is if she was standing inside a pen surrounded by wire panels,ground wire wouldnt help much.if they are setting on the ground or attatched to metal posts,your probably not gaining much by grounding them. my opinion of course.now if you took a lightning rod every 15-20ft on top the fence on insulated connectors ,with ground wire of suffecient size,and a ground rod at each one you may help, but if lightning hit the panels themselves my guess is anything inside has problems simply because it could arc accross or anywhere.

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(quoted from post at 09:42:42 09/11/12) Could you tell me what SWMBO means

jimmy

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She Who Must Be Obeyed....... or wife.....

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I thought the Bible states that the wife is to obey the husband!!!:wink:

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Anyway, should I have these grounded? Each place consists of about 250 ft of panels clamped solid together.

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Davie
Trees are grounded and people have been electrocuted standing under them in a thunderstorm so what good is it going to do grounding the panels????????

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(quoted from post at 12:17:20 09/11/12)

Anyway, should I have these grounded? Each place consists of about 250 ft of panels clamped solid together.

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Davie
Trees are grounded and people have been electrocuted standing under them in a thunderstorm so what good is it going to do grounding the panels????????

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had you read, you'da maybe noticed that I was asking a question dipshit...........
you do a better job as a hall monitor anyway. crawl on down to site comments where ya can feel important.....

davie
:lol: I think I hear you SWMBO telling you to clean up horse manure faster and stop playing on the key board. :lol:

yea yea.....

Some times we have to drive a grounding rod into the ground because a T-post only 6" + into the ground is not a good ground. When we hit rock we will lay grounding rod (Copper) Hozizontal as deep as we can go. I did two 10' rods for my shop Elec.

Dave, your question:

Anyway, should I have these grounded?

ANSWER: Tx Jim is on the right track, It likely wont hurt anything, but as an electrical engineer but certainly NOT any lightning protection expert, if its not done properly like an old fashioned entire lightning protection system its probably not gonna help much if any at all.

The potential difference exists between a charged cloud overhead and mother earth. A true lightning protection system has the pointed spires (easier to emit electrons) way up high up on the rooftop which are connected with huge copper braided cables to proper earth grounds. The theory is to bleed off and dissipate the charge potential difference in lieu of a high energy total sudden discharge. When a strike occurs there can be several associated side discharges all seeking paths to earth, which is why if youre under a tree that gets hit you can be in the path of one of them many secondary arcs and wake up dead. I.E. DONT SIT UNDER TREES OR ANTENNAS ETC THAT ARE PRONE TO LIGHTNING STRIKES

So those relatively low fences and panels arent really any sort of lightning protection (like rods on rooftips with huge braided cables etc) and I doubt any grounding you would perform to tie them would be much help and if you were near one that took a hit you would probably be fried by a side strike regardless........BUT HEY IT WONT HURT AND POSSIBLY COULD HELP!!!!!!

John T retired Electrical Engineer but NOT a lightning protection expert so NO WARRANTY

Heres some info on lightning strikes.A boy was struck while carrying a steel fish pole.I had a steel pole when I was 10.A boy standing on a small porch was struck and killed.A wire dog run ran from the porch to a tree.The lightning stuck the tree and trveled along the wire.Ive read old reports where a man was carrying a hoe over his shoulder and was killed by a strike.There was a burn on his neck and the hoe.Two fellows were burned when lightning struck a hay wagon they were loading hay on to.I have a friend who has been struck by lightning twice,in his kitchen and while fishing in an aluminum boat .Knocked out both times.A boy was struck while sliding in January .Kids playing sports are always at risk in the open.I have had some close calls with lightning.There was a Forest ranger who had been struck a dozen times.Some strikes while in his car.He shot himself.Lightning is unpredictable.Lightning is present every month of the year.Some dogs can hear a thunder storm coming long before we know it and get very nervous.Cast iron stoves attract lightning strikes. I have heard a lightning strike go down a chimney.