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Utility Service Pole Replacement
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The constant rain this last week has hastened the demise of the pole. The service lines have sagged another foot and the pole is definitely taking a lean toward the hose. 
Sounds like you may need to temporarily guy-wire the post until it can be replaced.The constant rain this last week has hastened the demise of the pole. The service lines have sagged another foot and the pole is definitely taking a lean toward the hose.
Just thinking out loud here. Could you relocate your pole and meter and then run underground to the house? Might end up being cheaper. But, may also run afoul of codes.
Hope you can get it done reasonably, however it works out.
Hope you can get it done reasonably, however it works out.
I checked into converting from overhead to underground. There is too much asphalt involved. The price is ridiculous. Just had a locate done. Somebody feels confident they got the job. hmmmmmm
Well that turned out good so far. I'm getting the job done tomorrow the way I want it done and for the right price. Hope I feel this way after all is said and done Stay tuned
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I hope it all goes well! I am waiting on getting a large leaning oak cut; that is heading toward my secondary drop.
I would cut it myself if it was not so heavily leaning toward the power line.
I would cut it myself if it was not so heavily leaning toward the power line.
I'm glad my power coop goes underground. My wife got on the phone after they buried the cable to discuss the bill and somehow they ended up paying us $400 to put it in, instead of charging us $400.
Sometimes it pays to be married!
The coop supplied me the meter base for free and I put it in myself. I attached it to the side of the house before I put the siding on.
And since it is a coop I think 4 months out of the first year's power was free.
Any money left over is given back to the customers, lets say if fuel prices decline during the year,
or somehow they have money left in the coffers. Sort of a non-profit power company.
So I made over a thousand dollars in the first year to install/use power when I built my house.
Sometimes it pays to be married!
The coop supplied me the meter base for free and I put it in myself. I attached it to the side of the house before I put the siding on.
And since it is a coop I think 4 months out of the first year's power was free.
Any money left over is given back to the customers, lets say if fuel prices decline during the year,
or somehow they have money left in the coffers. Sort of a non-profit power company.
So I made over a thousand dollars in the first year to install/use power when I built my house.
Normally, Yes, this is the case.
I have placed plenty of poles over the years, hopefully they can get the equipment back there, but I also have done plenty in areas that no equipment can go.
4 man crew typically do this type when equipment can't get there.
Back in the day, poles were about $500-750 ...
Power company here is the Province... and their "jurisdiction" goes right to the meter, whether it be on the house or on the last pole. After the meter is the customer's problem. Really like the setup here. I did ask once when they replaced a pole farther down the line a few years ago, cost of the pole and labor for the job was about $5k. Of course there were about a dozen union employees, a bucket truck, the "pole-hole-digger truck", a couple 1 ton work trucks and some half tons; a few of them were likely foremen or managers... several different colored hard-hats... but they got the job done.
Just had them here to fix a bad neutral connection at the transformer, no cost to me of course, and when they were here they decided to replace the #2 drop cable from the transformer to the house with #1/0 cable. Wish that would go underground too but I am not complaining!
The power company will have the equipment to replace the pole and enclosures etc. but their price might not be reasonable, ask though just in case. Finding someone to do a job like that in a rural area is getting difficult these days. No one wants to venture outside of the city. Kind of like medieval maps, anything away from shore or not familiar was full of dragons and monsters.
Just had them here to fix a bad neutral connection at the transformer, no cost to me of course, and when they were here they decided to replace the #2 drop cable from the transformer to the house with #1/0 cable. Wish that would go underground too but I am not complaining!
The power company will have the equipment to replace the pole and enclosures etc. but their price might not be reasonable, ask though just in case. Finding someone to do a job like that in a rural area is getting difficult these days. No one wants to venture outside of the city. Kind of like medieval maps, anything away from shore or not familiar was full of dragons and monsters.
The job is done and turned out really well. I was amazed how easy he got the new pole into the ground. Very little digging involved. So he didn't tear up a lot of ground to do this. No boom truck or heavy equipment, just 8 hours of hard work and expertise.
No boom truck or heavy equipment, just 8 hours of hard work and expertise.
He started at 8 am and the pole was out of the ground at 9:30 am. He then showed me how to stick a square peg in a round hole
One interesting thing about this experience is the attitude of the service locators. I had three of them to locate the services for the pole replacement and all three of them had a really poor attitude. Their work order read "locate for utility pole replacement in alley at my address" All three of them tried to locate for the power company pole across the ally from me. And all three were really pissed off that the work order read "locate pole in ally" and my pole wasn't really in the alley just close. They didn't care what pole was being replaced they were going to locate that power pole. As if they have ever located a power company pole
There it is, yeah, that one over there.
You know, that doesn't surprise me. I don't think many take any pride in doing a good job any more. (especially public employees)
I've got an ongoing 'issue' with the city here. No I won't 'get into it' here and now. But may start a thread if it gets resolved, in either way, they fix it or I suffer.
"Never rains, but it pours" Sheesh, of course there has to be fallout from the power pole job and it appears my irrigation controller bit the dust because of the power outage. It's back-up battery didn't last the whole day. The irrigation guy told me this was his second controller that died because of a power outage this year. The programming and clock get corrupted and the unit won't respond correctly. So time for a new one and not to bad. You can get an Orion 6 station control for under $25 . Well last night( couple hours ago) I wake and think I hear the faint sound of water running somewhere in the house. I get up and wander around and sounds like it's coming from the water heater closet. Nope! under the house a broken pipe hissing away. Dang it! I hate plumbing in confined spaces full of spiders.This time of year the water company boosts the pressure to around 80-90 psi and that's when you find the weak spots in the plumbing. It will crack my water filters too Well I wait for daylight and the investigation into what needs fixed now. Can't seem to keep up with all the repairs this spring.
Well I wait for daylight and the investigation into what needs fixed now. Can't seem to keep up with all the repairs this spring.
I am with you there. I have fixed many though with my body contorted into strange shapes.
Trying to get to some of these places and get it fixed.
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