Tree Limb Explosion Overhead Electrical Lines

Wind Storm in Issaquah....branch burning on 7500 V overhead power lines.

[@Fester_]

14 years ago - now I get it. Thanks. See you all next year.

[@roymcbacon4417]

typically most power lines by the road are 7200v... (typically). Those cutout fuses are loud when they blow. One night the power went out, came back on 30 seconds later, then I heard a massive BOOM, like someone was shooting a shotgun. I think a power malfunction happened, The safety caught it, and blew the fuse to prevent any more damage. I think it was like 4 blocks down, But sounded like it was right outside. Cool video.

[@TheGodParticle]

We shall never forget him, pray my friends.

[@strictlyformyninja]

I dunno why, but I laughed my ass off when that thing finally blew.

[@SharterdHeart]

This happened near my house the other day, but with a whole tree and really high power lines...there's no more tree there...just a bunch of splintered wood

[@nakayle]

When the flames reach clear across the limb it creates a ionized path. Ionized air has low resistance and conducts enough current to blow the fuse.

[@p1harw66]

Ouch!!!!! Sounds like the branch did a good job of shorting out the circuit and blowing the fuse feeding this part of the circuit.

[@heavyboxes]

Powerlines are showing the branch who's boss. Hell yeah.

[@Eric_Cartman483]

der knall ist geil,wie ein maschinengewehr schuss

[@PeculiarLancer]

tree limb went boom!

[@ozzie_goat]

00:22 Boop!

[@Aveture]

The sound of the explosion and the raining debris afterward makes me cackle.

[@cellogirl11rw55]

Aw, it's crying. . . *Sniff. Poor limb. . . 😭

[@aussiespoon2471]

The fuse was probably a relay that sensed the problem and then annoyed people that thought the power being out is the power companies fault .Trees Bastards!!

[@VideoGuy84]

Tree branch fell across a couple of the phases, and since wood is not a good conductor the branch heats up and starts on fire. Once the fire reaches all the way across it causes the conditions to be right for the power to ionize the air and jump across. But I didn't see any "explosion". Thats my take on it.

[@jeromeb619]

and the crowd gos wild

[@NickManas]

Thanks good guy greg!

[@jllmmjj]

gotta love vaporized water

[@whatseems]

0:28 TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE EXPLOSIVE PART

[@peterwillymcjohnsonator7837]

cutout fuse blows, sounds like a shotgun. Its LOUD!. just the lines safetys working as they should when they detect a overcurrent fault.

[@HighAway]

was that pop act like a fuse?

[@fredyteuvi7169]

I am interested in overhead trees trimming line work,and that is what I am doing now as a supervisor

[@EphemeralProductions]

whistle, squeeeeee, *silence*...BOOM! lol Cool

[@pilot4820]

разве они не обязаны срезать верхушки деревьев?????

[@MrPedawdaw]

that branch tress is burning because the protection device of the system is not working.. because of it, the electrical current keeps flowing and burning that branch

[@chucknorris687]

When I was a kid I use to throw old Christmas tree lights on to live lines, gotta nasty burn one time too. : )

[@ronaldli5]

A fire like that can be a risk cause it can burn the wire, right?

[@fleabag899]

0:22 creeper sound effect

[@mopthermopther]

Whoa pum Gangnam style !!

[@guuuu666]

who won?

[@zyanzisabot8806]

Who's watching in 2021

[@laurdy]

it looks like a moustache in the thumbnail

[@OK2BCK]

sounded like motorola radio to me..

[@TheCRTman]

Poor tree! :(

[@glupgluplji]

did he died???

[@wdowa94]

It is not explosion, just ARC caused by fire and short circuit! Read some about dynamic resistance

[@cellogirl11rw55]

It sounds like it's crying. . . 😭

[@MrSatanican666]

No way that's only 7500 volts. I cut trees around powerlines, that's at least 33000

[@breezetix]

7200v is enough to do that to branches.

[@jakester0852]

who turned off the porn? oh a tree!

[@bullrunlover]

anyone notice that it got extremely quiet after the explosion?

[@bamaslamma1003]

The "explosion" was the upstream fuses blowing. No more power. No more noise. This looked like a phase to phase fault. When it arced over, the fuses blew.

[@denzel387]

boom !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111

[@daryndubois1012]

Im on the Electric side of KZbin

[@DerPuschnina]

Electric Funeral

[@HatefulDesigns]

lol wtf cashier register sound thing.

[@maxdpt]

I know why he stopped the video....because there was no more electricity

[@davidd1395]

Power company needs to do a better job at cutting trees back. Co-ops do a better job at this than IOUs imho.

[@cover887]

It's not exactly an explosion...

[@peterwillymcjohnsonator7837]

seriously?

[@sam-gg7uk]

why would the tree explode lol

[@AndrewChumKaser]

I'm no scientist or electrician, but my best guess is this: When 7500 Volts travel through the branch, the water inside of the tree's bark heats up. A lot. That steam is trapped inside the branch and can sometimes colgate into a pocket inside of the branch. Once the pressure is too much for the branch to handle, pop.

[@DrakkarCalethiel]

It becomes more and more conductive over the time. When the resistance is low enough the electricity can flow through the carbonised wood causing a short between the two lines.

[@Isaacs352]

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd lines dead...

[@dylann50]

WINDOWS ERROR

[@nico6307]

hahahaha fuse naturals