I find it is easier to use a hammer, and flatten the cable down with a few blows onto something hard, like a brick. Or find the builders chisel, and grab it along with some buff tape, a bit of wood, and use it to cut the cable instead. Builders would probably not notice the new chips in the edge anyway....... Lovely view there of the Indian ocean, but going to be cold tonight, down to 12C or less, and rainy the weekend. All I can compare with is the 4 fish eagles that were in the sky this morning, and the 40 or so mongoose that were busy running across the road and through the yard at work. At home, all I can see is the park, and the Vervet monkeys sharing the chelsea buns they liberated from the neighbour's kitchen this afternoon, sharing bites between them all as they sat on the roof. At least there you were intending to find the breaker, not do it using a drill like I did once. Didn't notice the slight bit of extra resistance till there was the soft ""pop" and the drill stopped. Tripped not the 20A breaker, or the earth leakage, but the 80A breaker on the far end of the power cable there next to the 400kVA transformer. Oops, luckily it reset perfectly, and the hole was deep enough anyway, plus there was nothing using that outlet, so just quietly disconnected it at the board and removed the socket, replacing with a blanking plate.
I find it is easier to use a hammer, and flatten the cable down with a few blows onto something hard, like a brick. Or find the builders chisel, and grab it along with some buff tape, a bit of wood, and use it to cut the cable instead. Builders would probably not notice the new chips in the edge anyway.......
Lovely view there of the Indian ocean, but going to be cold tonight, down to 12C or less, and rainy the weekend. All I can compare with is the 4 fish eagles that were in the sky this morning, and the 40 or so mongoose that were busy running across the road and through the yard at work. At home, all I can see is the park, and the Vervet monkeys sharing the chelsea buns they liberated from the neighbour's kitchen this afternoon, sharing bites between them all as they sat on the roof.
At least there you were intending to find the breaker, not do it using a drill like I did once. Didn't notice the slight bit of extra resistance till there was the soft ""pop" and the drill stopped. Tripped not the 20A breaker, or the earth leakage, but the 80A breaker on the far end of the power cable there next to the 400kVA transformer. Oops, luckily it reset perfectly, and the hole was deep enough anyway, plus there was nothing using that outlet, so just quietly disconnected it at the board and removed the socket, replacing with a blanking plate.