Show Protect Yourself Against Lightning Lightning causes nearly one one- third of oC all U. U S. S farm fires Furthermore lightning dam dam- damages damages ages more than personal prop prop- ert erty It is estimated that thal more than 1300 persons are injured cry year About 90 per cent of oC this tol tot occurs in rural areas states Wayne B. B Ringer sion engineer Utah Stale State University Uni Uni- a Farm buildings and homes can be protected from Crom lightning complete lightning protection protections s system slem This means more than just installing rods Today's 55 systems terns are engineered to collect static charges from the entire building and the thc things in it and dissipate the static into the air For a copy of the new buletin bul- bul etin eHn write or call your county county coun coun- t ty agents office ortice in Farmington Although few lew farmers install I their own lightning protection I the bulletin will enable enable enable en en- I able the to determine whether installation wore is being done properly and to make periodic ready installed For farm buildings as wel as trees a lightning p lection system consists of three e parts air terminals rods or points conductors and ground connections The terminals arc are copper aluminum or galvan galvan- steel rods or tubes ten to 24 29 inches long installed at every cry projecting high point on ona ona ona a building Conductors arc the parts con con- the Ule terminals with the ground and nowadays s 's usually are arc made of or copper copper copper cop cop- per cable although rods also arc satisfactory A ground connection can be made in one of oC four ways by driving a copper clad or galvanized galvanized gal gal- steel rod into the ground at least ten feet by copper conductor cable and burying it in a trench by clamping copper conductor n j f mets of oC met cable to a buried sheet al plate or by clamping it to toan toan i ian an underground metal pipe Carefully made ground 4 lh they v connections are arc vital Hal to operation of a lightning protection protection tion system x j |