Are you saying that if you were the electriction you wouldn’t feel any regret for not do that job first?
With the benefit of hindsight, I know I would.
“Are you saying that if you were the electriction you wouldn’t feel any regret for not do that job first?”
anybody would, but he would have had no way of knowing which job of many to do first to prevent a future unknown accidental event
Additional reading seems to indicate that the irrigation system dates back to 1976 (lots of time for anything electrical to age and deteriorate) and that it is hydraulically driven, which means there would be no electric wires along the pipe. If the pump is not electrically driven, I don’t see any need for electric power to the system. Google-Earth does not have a good picture for this farm and I cannot identify the well.
Apparently the property owners do not live on the farm and were on vacation at the time of the accident. A cold front with accompanying rain & thunderstorms had moved through the area on the previous day, Sunday.
Raising hybrid seed corn takes specialized equipment and I am sure the land owner does very little of the work except maybe for soil preparation and in this case any necessary irrigation.