People that understand line work in English speaking North America
understand the definitions.

There is no "I wonder if it is alive?"

There is only two definitions ie."alive" and "dead".

When it is equipotentially grounded and all known feeds are locked out and
tagged under a documented safetyl ogging system it is "dead"
Any other condition is "alive"

The "fry a lineman" is just BS from those having no knowledge of electrical
lines practices.

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"J. Clarke" wrote in message
in.local...
Yep, they can and do work with live wires, but it helps if they know
that they're live.