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 Re: Practice safe hunting
[Re: aeb]
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03/30/16 01:14 AM
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Same thing happened to our neighbor. Assume it was lightening as well. Or a buddy heater somehow combusted in the summer.
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/30/16 03:42 AM
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That looks like someone just set your whole box on fire to me. Hate to say it, but I'm with this  I tend to agree if there is no trace of lightning traveling along one of the legs to ground. Also, lightning would created an explosive impact that could have scattered pieces some distance away. Why would lightning cause an explosion? I looked at over 100 photos of structures that had been hit by lightning and they did not explode. We had a barn struck by lightning, destroyed a truck and tractor but no explosion.
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Re: Practice safe hunting
[Re: aeb]
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03/30/16 09:42 PM
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We have had two cabins on the lease struck by lightning. Both came thru the TV antenna, ruined the TV's but no fire. Plus, on both it blew OUT a metal framed window. IMO it doesn't look like lightning. Just my two cents.
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/31/16 12:15 AM
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It would burn and blow up if it had a propane tank inside when it was struck. Coleman fuel as well.
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Re: Practice safe hunting
[Re: blackcoal]
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03/31/16 01:44 AM
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That looks like someone just set your whole box on fire to me. Hate to say it, but I'm with this I tend to agree if there is no trace of lightning traveling along one of the legs to ground. Also, lightning would created an explosive impact that could have scattered pieces some distance away. Why would lightning cause an explosion? I looked at over 100 photos of structures that had been hit by lightning and they did not explode. We had a barn struck by lightning, destroyed a truck and tractor but no explosion. "Explosion" might have been too strong a word. Still, it often blows bark off trees for some distance, not to mention the ones it's been known to shatter. Still, it brings up the point that lighting actually begins from the ground, usually as several extremely quick charges reach upward, only only one of them completing the circuit to ground with the charge you see coming down. It explains why some people have been known to survive so-called lightning strikes. No one ever survives a direct hit.
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/31/16 01:51 AM
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"Explosion" might have been too strong a word. Still, it often blows bark off trees for some distance, not to mention the ones it's been known to shatter. I was told that is from steam generation between the live tissue and the bark due to superheating caused by the electricity flowing thru the live (moist) tissue to the ground.....we had a large tree hit by lightening and a few (hand size) pieces of bark flew 40+ yds.....I do not know how much the wind also affected this.
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Re: Practice safe hunting
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03/31/16 02:01 AM
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"Explosion" might have been too strong a word. Still, it often blows bark off trees for some distance, not to mention the ones it's been known to shatter. I was told that is from steam generation between the live tissue and the bark due to superheating caused by the electricity flowing thru the live (moist) tissue to the ground.....we had a large tree hit by lightening and a few (hand size) pieces of bark flew 40+ yds.....I do not know how much the wind also affected this. Makes sense to me.
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