lightning

[knabe]

anyone ever put lightning protection IN trees?

out here in CA, lightning strikes are relatively rare, so most things aren't protected.

 

[showstud]

I haven't seen any lighning protectors but i sure know a school that couldve used them. My brothers FFA chapter lost over half their chapter herd due to a single lightning strike. Bad deal for the school but a lot of people have came out to support them.

 

[GONEWEST]

Too many trees here for that, lol. I just lost two donors and my best "regular" cow and her calf to lightning a few weeks ago.

 

[justintime]

We don't have many trees in these parts, but I have not heard of lightning protection for trees. Maybe there is such a thing, I don't know. Several years ago we lost several cows and calves in an early spring thunder storm. We were feeding the cows using an electric wire, and lightning hit the fence and killed 9 cows and 5 calves that happened to be near the wire. Of course, none of the calves belonged to the cows that were killed. Another cattleman not far from here, lost over 40 head in a thunderstorm a few years ago. His cows lined up against a barb wire fence in the shade of some trees, and lightning hit the fence. Every animal standing near it was killed.

 

[BCCC]

We don't have many trees in these parts, but I have not heard of lightning protection for trees. Maybe there is such a thing, I don't know. Several years ago we lost several cows and calves in an early spring thunder storm. We were feeding the cows using an electric wire, and lightning hit the fence and killed 9 cows and 5 calves that happened to be near the wire. Of course, none of the calves belonged to the cows that were killed. Another cattleman not far from here, lost over 40 head in a thunderstorm a few years ago. His cows lined up against a barb wire fence in the shade of some trees, and lightning hit the fence. Every animal standing near it was killed.

Same thing happened here about 3 years ago, we have a pasture along the highway 4 wire barb wire, and of coarse the grass was greener one the other side as the county plants grass in the ditches all the time. We had 15 head of replacement heifer that were due to be calving in the next 2 weeks, all laying dead half ways under the fence with about 4 foot of each other.

 

[HerefordGuy]

I hate lightning.  We have lost more cattle to lightning than anything else.  Almost lost my brother too.  Luckily he fell off a semi-trailer full of hay, and the impact jump-started his heart.