On one multi disconnect service I attached my Grounding Electrode Conductor (EGC) to the neutral conductor of the service mast on the load side of the drip loop splice and the outside wiremen from the utility about had a fit. I insisted that the engineer be called to the sight and he had no problem with it.
When I first started in the craft the POCO in that area was a Rural Electrification Administration (REA) coop. Apparently REA had a rigid rule that the load side of the drip loop splice was the only acceptable place to attach the GEC believing that would provide better lightning protection to the electrical service. To this day if I'm doing a rural overhead service were the only grounding electrodes will be driven rods I make the connection there.
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Tom Horne
