19 hours ago, Kevin Beitz said:

I don't think they could call it theft if you just pulled it out of the air above your own land...

It may be "your" land, but if the power company has an easement across it that gives them the ownership of whatever the easement specifies.  I am not familiar with electrical utility easements, but I suspect the lawyers "got it covered".

If... If... the electric was lost to the air I think they would have a 

hard time collecting money for it if someone used it...

 

There is only two things for my thoughts of whats happening.

One... My pallet racking is catching bleed off from the lines.

Or...

Two... The electric is coming out of the ground and my

pallet racking is acting as the ground...

 

Either way I did run a ground wire between the racking and my

conduit for my safety. 

18 hours ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

Maybe, but I still am stumped on how he has half of line voltage.  He disconnected all the wires going to the shop yet still has the 64 volts.  How?  And why half line voltage?  So somewhere a ground or a common wire has touched the power wire, or black wire if done correctly.  The high voltage lines would not give a 1/2 line voltage reading.  Would be as spike, maybe even let the smoke out of a wire.    

You may be putting more import to the 63 volts than warranted. It is also the voltage (or thereabouts) of what Ma Bell used to send to your phone when a call was coming in. (The higher voltage was needed to ring the actual bell in the phone). If there is no utility power entering the building, I’d have to lean on the voltage being induced somehow. If the pipe that the wires were in, that have now been pulled out, is a metal pipe who knows what ground issues could be happening? I’m betting there is at least one fact that we don’t know about, that would help explain this. When I was at the voke school learning how to be a sparkie, they told us that back in the day of first running out the high voltage distribution lines, the farmers figured out that if you wrapped a bunch of wires around a barrel and placed it under the wires you could transform your own electricity. If memory serves they actually named the court case where the utility company took the farmers to court and won. A situation that made the newspapers locally out our way was about a property owner who built a house under the power lines. Didn’t get a permit or any inspections. Had some fluorescent lighting in the house that were half lit. House did NOT have power connected to it. You got no permit, no inspections, you get no power. The municipality was suing to make him demo and remove structure. I am NOT an engineer, got no idea how large an ungrounded metal roof would/could be to induce power under utility lines. Got no other thought from the facts we have, to make guesses. BUT something is inducing/producing/or distributing electricity, large enough to be metered/measured. The only time I have seen 63 volts from a utility is on a three phase system where 1 line into the transformer was broken. The 125 volt duplex receptacles had either 63-73 volts, or 173-183 volts to neutral/ground. I can’t see where this could be a possibility here.

1 hour ago, Artie said:

If the pipe that the wires were in, that have now been pulled out, is a metal pipe who knows what ground issues could be happening?

 Bingo, that could be what is crossed to power somewhere, and thus giving us voltage.  Had forgotten about being inside a metal pipe and what can happen.  Probably why I use the PVC all this time.  

13 hours ago, Artie said:

BUT something is inducing/producing/or distributing electricity, large enough to be metered/measured.

 This is the reason why there are such strict rules on grounding in and around swimming pools.

All under ground wires is in plastic. No 3 Phase within miles

of my home. No shocks for about a year now...

So what was final diagnosis of problem?

I just ran a heavy solid copper ground wire down to the ground

from the racking and forgot about it....