HIGH-TENSION LINEBREAKS
CAUSES CLASSIFIED ■. . ; Statistics of high-tension line-breaks, and causes thereof, taken over twelve months by the Hydro-Electric Department, show a total of 250 breaks. The principal cause was falling trees and branches, which accounted for 62 out of the 250. With falling trees should be bracketed another of. the listed causes—, felling trees. Trees that were felled—as apart from those that simply fellcaused 15-breaks. Second in the list of causes, numerically, is “storm,” with 41. Defective jointing is credited with 14 breaks; “vehicle colliding with pole,” 11; bad workmanship, 7. Birds are blamed for four breaks. What a bird can do to high tension w.ires was shown in the Waikato some time ago, when a human life and some animals were lost'tiirough a break due in.the. first place to the impact of a flvi.ng bittern. . 'The opossum is -a great pole-climber in.country districtsrvor used to be until t,he plan .was adopted, of. attaching to each' pole a .sheet of galvanised iron, into whii:h the sharp, claws of the climbing opossum cannot penetrate. Since this device was adopted the opossums have ceased tp Blondin on the hightension lines.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 122, 17 February 1926, Page 8
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188HIGH-TENSION LINEBREAKS Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 122, 17 February 1926, Page 8
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