My parents had a tree fall during an ice storm which ripped down the service cable. It was that twisted stuff. The phase conductors were intact but the neutral snapped.
Power company was swamped for days so I used a car battery jumper cable to bridge the snapped neutral. Used both cables in parallel so the load capacity was more than enough.
Now if it was a phase conductor that was broken I would not have done this.
[This message has been edited by Gus99 (edited 05-30-2006).]
