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SteveB
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Lightning and run-in shed
      03/30/03 05:47 PM
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I'm going to put up a new run-in shed for our horses this year in a new pasture. There is a telephone pole about 25' tall (with a transformer) and a group of three trees about 50' tall. Does anyone know how far I should locate the run-in shed from these lightning attractors? Obviously I don't want to come home and find all my horses cooked in the run-in shed after taking shelter from a storm.

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GERARD
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Re: Lightning and run-in shed new [re: SteveB]
      03/31/03 02:14 PM
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Interesting question. Upside to being close to the poles/trees is THEY will take the strike before your shed. If you move the shed far out to the middle of the pasture, the shed MAY be the tallest object around and hence take the strike. Either way the ground will become somewhat electrified as the strike bleeds out into the ground. Don't know if this would kill/hurt the horses or not. Sorry this isn't an answer, I'll defer to an electrician/engineer on this one!

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LazyJ_Arabians
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Re: Lightning and run-in shed new [re: SteveB]
      04/01/03 09:04 AM
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I had 3 large (100' plus) pines on the south end of my barn and about 4 years ago lightning hit the tallest/farthest from the barn, about 25' away. There were 6 horses in the barn at the time and none were physically hurt although one took out the complete outside wall of her stall. I was told the relatively dry bedding in the stalls insulated them from any significant shock. I've debated several times on taking out the other two trees but their shade is so valuable. Quite a quandry...

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SteveB
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Re: Lightning and run-in shed new [re: LazyJ_Arabians]
      04/01/03 10:50 AM
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Thanks for your experienced input. The pasture is about 2 acres and I have no idea yet where I'm going to out the shed. I want to put it on the fence line so the back side of the shed is not exposed to the horses. I also wanted to put a small fence around the 3 trees and the telephone pole, so I thought it would also be possible to incorporate the shed into one of those fences, but that would probably be too close.

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WVBill
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Re: Lightning and run-in shed new [re: SteveB]
      04/01/03 12:01 PM
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Here are some threads from over on Tracorbynet from a while back where the issue of lightning in rural settings was discussed. Some good first-hand experience and knowledge in these.

Thread One

Thread Two

Thread three




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