Has someone called EDF to notify them of the failure?
I called them Friday afternoon and was quite surprised when a crew rolled up Saturday morning! I didn't think they'd bother about sending anyone out until after the weekend for a non-urgent thing like this.
Anyway, we now have a nice shiny new guy line, with one of the newer "square" insulators in matching silver-gray:
Maybe when the whole thing falls over, it will finally get repaired properly.
More or less what one of guys I spoke with said. He pretty much agreed that it's what I've thought for some time: EDF no longer carries out much in the way of preventative maintenance. They only come out when somebody reports a problem or there's a big bang and the lights go out.
Funnily enough, I was making the most of a sunny day yesterday to do some work on a vehicle outside when I saw a couple of EDF linemen in fluoro jackets walking up the road dropping envelopes off at every house, so I met them at the gate. They were delivering notices about a planned outage for Saturday, February 16th.
For one moment I thought they were actually going to tell me that EDF was going to replace the tatty feeder on "my" pole outside and finally fix the lashed up head. No...... They're installing a new xfmr over at the caravan park somewhere and are doing some HV work at the same time.
One of the guys turned out to be one of the crew who did the temporary job on the head back in the summer though, of which he was reminded when I mentioned it.
"That was months ago, wasn't it?" and looked up at the pole. He was surprised that nobody else had been back to do anything else yet. Then he noticed the new stay wire and laughed. Turns out it was his brother I'd been talking to on Saturday.