Well........actually this WAS a first for me, I admit. In hindsight, my posting may have been sideways over a slight amount of repressed resentment over having to use this cheesy mess.(I know..I know...no excuses) Guess I kinda identified with the welder and do any of us actually know his situation which led up to his ...contraption? Could have been lazy...but look at how much duct tape he used (would'a made Red Green proud). Actually, I lied. It's worse than I told you. My FOREMAN'S "service" actually consist of a 10 foot #12 extension cord with only 2 alligator clips...followed by a 100 foot.....followed by a 50 foot, from somewhere deep in a cornfield to our site. Being the only wireman there, this is how far I have to walk into chest high foliage to make the connection to an aging meter/disconnect, which serves 240v. cathodic protection for an oil pipeline. There is NO grounding available and the buried galvanized pipe carrying the 240v. has corroded itself from making contact with the disconnect. Of course, this is crazy. But here's the good news..... I finished the substation's service and AC distribution box today, replete with 4/0 grounding to the cadwelded ring grids. So...tommorrow I can connect my foreman's cheesy mess on the downstream lugs of our newly installed control house disconnect and plug into true grounded outlets........whew...and no...he would NOT accomodate the trouble of making it safer since he had nothing to make it safer with.......exception 12 foot copper electrode stakes and rolls of 4/0 bare copper for the grid.......mmmmmmmmmmmm..sigh
