Winter that is. Just got my 1st of the season..."AHhh,I just hit a big pipe with my BoB-Cat, Can You come right away and look at it?" Call.

KA-CHING!!

LOL one of those eh? What were they doing digging with the machine or clearing snow and sheared off a pipe?
I hate those calls as I had one about 3 weeks ago to repair an underground conduit, problem being it was cold wet, muddy and snowing... Good thing I go back to sparky school on the 7'th for 10 weeks where its going to be nice, warm and dry

A.D

Happy New year!

Snow removal! Only a 2" phone riser.Snapped of the LB.
Scheduled phone co for Wed. AM.

No Biggy.

I was sent last week to one small lot in West Hartford CT, the plow guy took out two out of eight poles in one night.

They had a large loader with the big pusher on it....



......must have been his first day with the big stuff.

I also noticed a lot of rubble in the snow piles, sections of torn up fences, crushed shopping carts, curbs.....:D the owner of the plaza is going to flip out come spring and all the damage is exposed.

LOL Bob!,
That things enormous.

i have repaired few parking lot luminaires post go off from the base.

I dont know why but seems the plow driver used them as target pratice or one of [ beeped ] plyon thing and i did one not too long ago the base is rather meaty base it have 30 inch diamater [3/4 metre ] base with 5 feet [ 1 1/2 metre] deep and koncked half of it off i say WHAT??
the only hevey thing can knock it off either large front end loader or hevey laden plow truck konck them off.

Merci, Marc

Where I am in Maine we've had over 50 inches of snow in the last 4 weeks, 20 inches in the last 3 days. Lots of broken stuff:).

A number of years ago I had a trouble call for power problems at a small commerical office. When I got there, I found that the 3 phase service was single phased. The power distribution was overhead with cutouts on the pole and an underground run to the transformer on the back side of the building. I called the utility and when he got there he saw an open cutout on the pole and went up in the bucket with his short hot stick to re-fuse it. When he closed it back in, it went off like a shotgun. Come to find out that the snow plow guy had pushed snow up over the pad mount transformer and moved it enough to short out one of the primary conductors.
Don

Every time the greens keeper at my wife's place digs a hole he seems to hit something. So far he has a 1" water line, the circuits to the 120v landscape lights (several times) and a fiber and that is only the six months she has been the manager there.

I guess he does not know who to call for a locate prior to digging

So far this has been their own stuff so there is nobody to call. They never mapped anything they buried, a policy that is now changed. They also never pulled permits or hired "trades" to do the work. That is another policy that changed when a building professional (my wife) took over.

Whoa!! A Biggy.Phone co> showed and stated the need for a "supervisor". WHAT??. None available.

Update. My "quick fix" aint right. (secured and made water tite).
This has a bank ATM, (the one that gives loans to ones that should not be here to begin with)So security is a concern. The store has lottery, so that is a concern (state revenue-(security?!).

But when it all got sheard off the only concern was to get it back on! Not lets repair the conduit.

Now the building owner tells me that verizon wants all new conduit and penitration into the building.(he wants all for nothing-Surprise!!).

30' of 2" conduit (rigid) down to an "LB",2' stub into the basement (of the conv.store)then typical connections.

So a new LB and some new clips. (depending on V's take.)

Suspect the owner wants all new wireing, The power is on the opposite side, undamaged!

Was taking a shower this morning when the power went out. Had to scramble in the dark to find flashlights for the kids (who of course woke up crying instead of just sleeping through it), and manually disengaged & opened the garage door only to find power was out on the 6 blocks around me. It's a clear night, it's just really cold- we've had a lot of new construction around and I suspect all the electric heat simply overloaded something. But ya know what? NOT MY PROBLEM! Someone else gets to freeze their ass off this morning fixing it! Ah, it's threads like this that make me REALLY REALLY appreciate having a desk job.

It takes a special kind of electric company to install 200A services to a half dozen homes, all with electric heat, and feed them all off a single 15kVA pole pig barely rated for 100A...

Just got a call from my wife, complaining the power is back on but the house is freezing. Seems just about the time the delay time turns off and the heater finally comes on for a few seconds, the power goes out again!

Hmmmmm, poco, you think maybe the 2-dozen houses you just hooked up service to *might* increase power demand a little? ARGHHHH!! I have a feeling this weekend will be a long and cold one

We have a strange setup om my street. There is one long 120/240 "bus" that goes about a block with 3 transformers connected to it. I assume that is because the lots were built out over many years and originally they spanned the whole thing with one transformer, simply adding the others as the load increased. Is that a normal thing?