Moose gets stuck in power line....!

[fkovalski]

Apologies if this is a re- post... . first I have come accross it.



Snopes says it is true: MOOSE



"They were laying new power cables which were strung on the ground for miles. The moose are rutting right now and very agitated. He was thrashing around and got his antlers stuck in the cables. When the men (miles away) began pulling the lines up with their big equipment, the moose went up with them. They noticed excess tension in the lines and went searching for the problem. He was still alive when they lowered him. to the ground. He was a huge 60 inch bull and slightly peeved !"

 

[AMink]

Too bad they had to shoot him.

 

[CSnyder]

I dont believe its true because if the line is pulled up through streamers at the poles then wouldnt he have slid to the center between poles when it was going up? I also cant believe hisrack didnt break or that the streamers that hold the wire to the poles would hold that much weight.

 

[fkovalski]

I dont believe its true because if the line is pulled up through streamers at the poles then wouldnt he have slid to the center between poles when it was going up? I also cant believe hisrack didnt break or that the streamers that hold the wire to the poles would hold that much weight.

I hear ya' ... I have a hard time believing it... . hence the Snopes link. But what if Snopes is wrong??? Who appointed them the "myth busters" of the internet?



But... stranger things have happened :-laf

 

[bmoeller]

or that the streamers that hold the wire to the poles would hold that much weight.

I don't know that they would've broken. Given how much tension on the lines, I dout the weight of a moose would be enough to break them.

 

[fkovalski]

I don't know that they would've broken. Given how much tension on the lines, I dout the weight of a moose would be enough to break them.

That was the concensus in my office, but...

... if the line is pulled up through streamers at the poles then wouldnt he have slid to the center between poles when it was going up? ...

This is what got us thinking... unless his antlers were REALLY tied up in the wires.

 

[bmoeller]

With the trashing around it might have been doing, it very well could've gotten the wires wrapped around mone than one part of the antlers.



With antlers, they are pretty tough. They might not break. Since they are used for fighting, the weight of an animal shouldn't break them.



I've seen cattle break their own horns off, but it was one heck of a hit into a heavy steel gate, or concrete wall.

 

[PToombs]

I thought this was about Moose 00!

 

[Moose Truck]

I thought this was about Moose 00!

Once a Moose, always a Moose

 

[nickleinonen]

there was a picture floating around my workplace of a deer that was tangled up in some lines by rail track. . story behind it was some train [i can't remember the details] smacked it and tossed it up and it landed in the lines. . almost intact

 

[TRAMPLINEMAN]

This is an old photo that's been floating around the linework world for quite a while. I'm not too sure what you guys are referring to when you say streamers, but I'm guessing it's the travelers. Travelers are the roller looking things near the top of the poles. Depending on the size and make of the traveler, some can hold tremendous down strain. Earlier this year I was on a job where radio communication was lost while we were pulling in rope. The Cat operator didn't hear everyone yelling hold the pull and kept coming up on the ropes. The ropes were snubbed off to the flatbed of a one ton dully Duramax. I witnessed this Duramax get lifted vertically about 6 feet off the ground before the Cat operator realized something was wrong. These ropes and travelers will hold this kind of weight.



The part of this story that's hard to believe for me is that the moose ended up where he did in relation to the structure. Being this line is on a hill, they would have pulled rope uphill so they could pull the wire down hill. If this was the case, when they winded the ropes up, the moose would have had to pass thru the traveler to end up where he did. I think someone did a good job Photoshopping this pic.

 

[Signal73]

I thought this was about Moose 00!

that was him 3 haloween's ago :-laf

 

[Crazy Horse]

It is a true story from about 2004. It was originally reported by this Newspaper in Fairbanks, Alaska. I had it saved but the url isn't found today. You can try searching through the archives if possible. I know it's true and they did have a photo when the article was run.

 

[Missouri Mule]

The photo looked real.

 

[fkovalski]

The photo looked real.

Yes, while it looked real... 'most ANYTHING can be photoshopped... just loook at the size of my... (uhm)... , er... tires in the photo gallery :-laf :-laf :-laf













... guys ALWAYS exagerate... . :-laf :-laf :-laf ... . even if it is "BULL"

 

[Crazy Horse]

Here's some info for you all disbelievers:

http://www.alaskamagazine.com/stories/0205/ktob_trophy.shtml



http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=1428782



http://www.cryptozoology.com/forum/topic_view_thread.php?tid=1&pid=354247



Here's another photo angle and you see the cable guides attached to the poles as the line was being drawn up by a winch.



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