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    Friend who worked in the coal pit running a crane that took apart the big coal digging machine during a rebuild.
    A generator took a lightening strike. This is a melted piece of copper wire.
    N.E Colorado, Nebraska panhandle

  • #2
    Wow I wouldn't want to be anywhere close to that lightening strike.
    Michigan Yooper
    If You Don’t Stand for Something, You’ll Fall for Anything

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    • #3
      Lightning and electricity does strange things,...I reckon a few N/A natives got struck now’n then.
      Floridaboy.

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      • #4
        Wow. I would have guessed that was natural. You would think the copper wire would be the last thing to melt, letting the current run through it easily. Strange to think about 80% of people hit by lightning survive. I was standing about 15 feet from a tree that got hit. Blew the bark off it like a bomb. Dented my car from the debris flying off from across the street.
        Central Ohio

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        • #5
          I wish I had taken pictures. lightning hit a Balsam Fir on my place. The entire tree exploded: Balsam Fir is full of sap. The ten foot splinters went up in the air and then stuck in the ground when they came down. It was a strange scene. My garden is about 250 yards from the lightning strike and still it blew the fuses in my fencer.
          Last edited by Ron Kelley; 09-30-2020, 02:18 PM.
          Michigan Yooper
          If You Don’t Stand for Something, You’ll Fall for Anything

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          • Fat
            Fat commented
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            I have heard similar.
            Ive seen a piece of straw thrust into a fence post after a tornado.
            Mother Nature has the power to make it look easy.

        • #6
          Not to tread on the thread, but here's a piece of Doug fir lightning struck wood I found on the river while fly fishing. It had aged nicely and makes a great display for a vintage beaded pipe stem.

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          San Luis Valley, southern Colorado

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          • #7
            Thats neat lumber. How does the pipe smoke? I wanna see it.
            plz
            N.E Colorado, Nebraska panhandle

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            • #8
              A friend introduced me to Alan Monroe's work a few years back and he offered me this Chiefs Pipe of silver inlayed catlinite. Its not been smoked as is the custom. Total length with stem is 35". Click image for larger version

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              San Luis Valley, southern Colorado

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              • #9
                That is nice. I use to go to pipestone minn. every year and harvest a few blocky specimens to trade and carve.
                Ive never heard of the not smoking custom.
                N.E Colorado, Nebraska panhandle

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              • #10
                Good article.
                Get some sage.
                Burn it, bless it
                Smoke...
                N.E Colorado, Nebraska panhandle

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                • Rio Del Norte
                  Rio Del Norte commented
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                  I even grow sweetgrass for my smudging but have a personal pipe so I'll leave this one for a special occasion.
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