Lightning is static electricity, and here is my story. About 10 years ago I was stripping out the wires in an electrical panel. I was taking two of the ground wires out of the Romex and lightly twisting them together and putting them under the same screw because I was getting short on spaces. A thunderstorm was taking place at the time and lightning hit the transmission lines at the end of the driveway. These were the large lines on the towers that look like a giant with his arms holding the wires. Well anyway I was holding these two wires, one in each hand, pulled tight from the connector at the top of the panel and suddenly I heard a loud SNAP. I jumped and cussed a bit at that point. My right shoe was wet on the outside edge since I had stepped in some water outside, and my foot at that spot had a mark the size of a pinhead.
That spark had to jump several inches to hit those two twisted together wires. I have no idea as to the voltage, and I never went to have anything checked out either. Fortunately the juice had a "safe" path to get out of there.
On the subject of the tractor just starting, well I have seen that also with dads Fordson. While trying to work on it one day we hooked a battery up to the coils to make sure we had juice. At one point I hooked he battery up and everything must have been just right because it just started right up on it's own. First time I saw a Fordson with an electric start! :)
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