ARWadsworth wrote:
Mike Tomlinson wrote:
In article , The Medway Handyman
writes

Could you expand on why horses are more susceptible than humans
please Andrew?
They're big animals, so more of a potential difference (a larger
voltage, in other words) appears between the front and hind legs. The
current then travels through the body via the heart. Result: dogmeat.

A human standing on the same ground only has the p.d. developed
between their feet. And humans don't as a rule wear shoes with metal
soles.


The Sun has a theory.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ctrocuted.html


Quote "The two which died were shod in steel whilst the survivors were
wearing less-conductive aluminium."

I suspect that someone at The Sun does not understand conductivity values.

Perhaps it was a magnetic field inducing currents in the iron, but not
the al :-)