2 bads and a good.

[grizz272]

I had 3 bad things happen this last week end. No one got hurt but the potential was there.
1. While looking for holes mice could get in I touched
the trailer frame and felt some electric current. I reached up and touched another piece of metal and felt the same thing.
I pulled out my outlet checker and found a bad outlet at the house. The ground was dry. I can only image what would have happened if I was lying in a puddle. Since I had the tester out out I checked all of the outside outlets on the house only that one was bad.
2. For some reason I removed the wheel chocks before I hitched up to come home. When I started lowering the hitch on to the ball the trailer rolled forward the hitched bounced on to the step bumper and stopped. I could have easily been pinched between the truck and the trailer.
NEW RULE. Never remove the chocks before completely hitched.
Now for the good. My son and my 4yr old grand son came up and camped over night for the first time. He had a ball. Had smores. Learned about cam fires. I had the cleanest campsite in the campground. There were no twigs or sticks over 1 inch long on the site after he found out how to add wood to a fire. He wanted a campfire the next morning. I told him, that is a warm your butt fire.:B I can only image what my DIL will have to say about that. She is not a camper.:(

[TimnJo]

Horizon170 wrote:
There are three types of people-------those that can count and those that can't.:D

Nope, there's only 10 kind of people; those that understand binary and those that don't

[Horizon170]

There are three types of people-------those that can count and those that can't.:D

[wa8yxm]

Re the electrical shock... Likely you were getting only 60 volts on the skin withotu "load" and almost no current. so had you been lying in a puddle.. not a whole lot worse.. I can explain why this happens with an open ground, but it is kind of technical.. Happens under some other conditions as well. but the danger if everything else is working properly (and that is a BIG IF) is not great.. Now if something is shorted within the trailer.. Well then the danger is GREAT.. But normally it's minor.

[j_p_f_]

problem #3......dil finding out about the "warm your butt" fire...

[NanciL]

We learn by our mistakes.
You are probably two up on the newbies.

Sounds like you had a good time with your grandson. Who had the mot fun: him or you?

jack L

[gbopp]

ol Bombero-JC wrote:
Hmmmmm - sosmehow missed #3 of 'Bad Things'..:@

However -two will do- .......

Suggest you go to one of the ancestry sites (or Google) and research "Joe Btfsplk"!!

He may be one of your kin...:W

~

The OP got his story to us just fine. Math probably is not one of his strong points. I can identify with that. :B

[ol_Bombero-JC]

grizz272 wrote:
I had 3 bad things happen this last week end. No one got hurt but the potential was there.
1. While looking for holes mice could get in I touched
the trailer frame and felt some electric current. I reached up and touched another piece of metal and felt the same thing.
I pulled out my outlet checker and found a bad outlet at the house. The ground was dry. I can only image what would have happened if I was lying in a puddle. Since I had the tester out out I checked all of the outside outlets on the house only that one was bad.

2. For some reason I removed the wheel chocks before I hitched up to come home. When I started lowering the hitch on to the ball the trailer rolled forward the hitched bounced on to the step bumper and stopped. I could have easily been pinched between the truck and the trailer.

Hmmmmm - sosmehow missed #3 of 'Bad Things'..:@

However -two will do- .......

Suggest you go to one of the ancestry sites (or Google) and research "Joe Btfsplk"!!

He may be one of your kin...:W

~

[Lwiddis]

She's not a camper for a reason...bad experience? Fear? Win her over.