Nice work, Chris. Looks awesome as usual. And knowing it's dug properly has to be worth the time, if not the money. Geoff showed the hurricane aftermath at his place, and I want to compliment you on not only how well the ponds and drainage direct all that water, but your dirt work. You sculpted so much of the land around the lake. And it all acts like undisturbed ground. The 20+ acres (front & back) look so fine. No erosion, no sinking, no soft spots. You are the king. And you shared every step with us. Thanks, Chris.
Hi, let's dig. Here in the UK, we put plastic tape and think it's yellow with a black stripe about 2 to 3 in wide, say 6 inches over any cables in the trench of electrical telecoms, fibre, or pipe. It may be different colours for rhe diffrent sevices. Dont know if it's mandatory? But when someone is digging and gets near the pipe, the shovel or digger bucket exposes the tape first. Even if it's not mandatory, I think it's a good idea re the small cost and is outweighed by the cost of hitting a sevice or worse an accident, cost of repairing a main fibre line is an arm and a leg. Thanks for all your videos. No wonder you have a constant supply of work. Keep it up.
I’m a 71 year old man and I own a little 32 horse kubota with a little backhoe. I’d love to own a mini ex but at my age I don’t want to invest. I think they are wonderful and I thank you for all your videos
I have been thinking about y’all a lot today. I hope you all are safe and well. I know your area of NC got a good bit of rain from Debby. Hopefully flooding isn’t too bad. We are due to get it tonight and tomorrow as well here in VA. Y’all are in my thoughts and prayers. Thanks for the video. Great job as always! Take care!
just watching you trench giving me flashbacks from the 300 lightpoles our complex did. 2.5 miles in total trenching with walk behind trencher, 60% hand digging and fighting very high water table, unusually rainy summer, buried boulders, construction debris. trench came out damned good for as long as it was , the battle with ground water
trenching my life away ...just replace driving with trenching and some other words and you almost have a new song...Drivin' My Life Away Song by Eddie Rabbitt Well, the midnight headlight blind you on a rainy night Steep grade up ahead, slow me down, makin' no time But I gotta keep rollin' Those windshield wipers slappin' out a tempo Keepin' perfect rhythm with the song on the radio But I gotta keep rollin' Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away Lookin' for a better way for me Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away Lookin' for a sunny day Well, the truck stop cutie comin' on to me Tried to talk me into a ride, said I wouldn't be sorry But she was just a baby Hey, waitress, pour me another cup of coffee Pop it down, jack me up, shoot me out, flyin' down the highway Lookin' for the mornin' Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away Lookin' for a better way for me Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away Lookin' for a sunny day Well, the midnight headlight blind you on a rainy night Steep grade up ahead, slow me down, makin' no time But I gotta keep rollin' Those windshield wipers slappin' out a tempo Keepin' perfect rhythm with the song on the radio But I gotta keep rollin' Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away Lookin' for a better way for me Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away Lookin' for a sunny day Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away Lookin' for a better way for me Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away Lookin' for a sunny day, yeah Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away Lookin' for a better way for me
Chris You have digging with the Yanmar a long Line. You work with all Excavator a Perfect Line without every a Technological Instrument. Thid6 is Admirable. Your Videos always First Class. Thanks 💪👌👍
Fantastic ditch dig. Beautiful trenching. You can do it. Of course you took over!!! Time is money and it's your money!!! Great gob and video. Wish Texas had some of your rain and topsoil. Thanks Chris. Enjoyed the video. Have a good week.
I’m only a few minutes into the video, but I sure hope you are pulling in primary voltage cable and a new transformer. Primary voltage is often 12.47 kV or 13.2 kV (phase-to-phase). Boy, if you are running several thousand feet of secondary wire (120/240 Volts), it may be just too far a distance to prevent significant voltage drops. (My background is in electrical engineering and I designed utility feeders at primary voltages, and I’m a master electrician working on the 600 volts and lower systems. Thanks for the great content!!
Excellent job sir, pretty straight forward 1700’ of trench I would say. The mini sure does a nice job for you, thanks for the farm/ cabin update, enjoyed watching sir.
Like to watch reminds myself driving a mini excavator mainly a kabota now retired great watching chris again saving lot with electric company you doing trenches thanks 👍👍 again great content late Thursday evening 🌆 UK time
You saved a big bunch of money by doing the trenching yourself Chris! I just love the way the Yanmar does trenching. Hopefully, you didn't loose too much by not being on a job. It's great to see that you're having such a great season.
Watching that ditch being dug is so satisfying We have nothing but rock here and it pisses me off daily. Lol you’re the only operator I can watch on UA-cam. You actually know what you’re doing
Hi Chris after seeing what it cost Mat at Diesel Creek to have power connected to his place I think you got the best deal out there and he cut the trench too but as usual you have done another great job and all done before the hurricane hits, I see all the water that Geoff got on his place so I see not alot of work will be done over the next week thank's for another interesting and great video it looks like everything is coming together for you.
Yeah, that was a lot of rain here in Tampa. Looks like burning is going to a "go," once it dries up enough to start the piles (if any). Hope this rain doesn't hurt the ICF house and pool.
Another one of my great ideas… grab a 5-6ft log or something with thumb, turn at a 45 degree angle and “walk” along with mini to drag dirt back in ditch!
and from the looks of the Bealy Good Farm this mornings vid showed, you were right to get it covered. Nice when you have your own equipment to do something like this.
The difference between PA and NC is like here between IN and IL. PA and IL both want everything you made and your firstborn for something everyone else gets for free. You gotta love like in a rual state. If I ever buy a mini, it's going to be a Yanmar. It is very dependable and does a great job with no major issues like a lot of those mini excavators have. Hopefully, you get some rest, Chris, and the cabin looks awesome.
24 years ago here in western pa i had electric run to a new home 200 ft. from the road. Regulations then were 42 inch deep trench with 6 inches of sand and had to be backfilled immediately. I opted to have it run in conduit and it was able to be backfilled at a later time. Power co. place a pole at the road with a tranform, ran the power through conduit to the meter box. They never charged me a dime. My cost was having the trench dug and the meter box on house ( which i purchased locally). I later backfilled the trench with my tractor.
That poor ol' water pump needs to be 'tuned up' to allow the engine to run more smoothly. After properly tuned and serviced, it'll also pump water more efficiently too. Nice looking ditching job Chris.
And that’s why I hate to lend out my equipment, small or large. Finally put in a new rule, if it breaks when you have it you fix it or buy me a new one. Don’t care if it’s your fault or not. If they won’t agree to that they don’t get to use it. Hated to be that way but it just got old going to use something and it being broke.
Maybe maintain it before you lend it out should be one of your rules too .Easy to pass the buck when it was laziness & carelessness from the owner that was the initial 😏 problem.
Not the case at all. Some don’t care but equipment and tools are too expensive not to take care of. Hell, I sharpen,clean and spray all the hand tools with diesel before being put away for winter. Most people just don’t understand. If you want it to last take care of it.
Remember the old ice cream scoops that had a thumb pushed lever to empty the scoop? How about something like that for the trenching bucket that was worked with hydraulic button? Might be a new "Letsdig18" designed attachment patent.
Idk if anyone noticed, but even on the trench, Chris separated the topsoil and clay so he could put the topsoil back on top. The fine details are what he is so good at!
That's exactly why, I don't loan my shit out anymore, unless I know for damn sure you take care of your tools and stuff like I do !! If I even think ya don't , your not getting nothing !! Have had to much stuff ruined just like that pump tore up and broken, and then the fckr's don't even tell ya, it's broke !! That really pisses me off !! Yeah, just watched Geoff's video, you guys have got a ton of freaking rain, and more coming it's looking like... But, that was one hell of a little run there Chris !! Glad ya got it in before that Big Storm hit ya !! Great as Always Man, Have a Great Evening, And , on too the Next !!
And that's why Chris allows only a very small group of friends run his machines. The one time someone had an incident the person owned up and repaired the error himself.
Must be nice to dig in air conditioning. When I started in 1973 as an electrical apprentice, we had a choice of round point or square point. People who burn the seals out of small pumps like that need to be the ones to replace the seals. Always prime, if it doesn`t catch shut off the engine and get more priming water. Hurricane Debby gave us Cat 1 winds and almost 6 inches of rain. Parts of the local area is flooded.
Great video as always bro and did not notice the turtle till I went back and looked. Lucky it scampered into the long grass. Big savings putting in the trench yourself that is for sure. Safe travels. Ken.
Matt of Diesel Creek had a very long run for power to his new shop. He chose to rent a ride on trencher. Much faster than using a mini excavator. Matt's utility charger him approx $60k and Matt had to purchase and install the PVC conduit and pull line for the wire...a very unhappy camper. You got off "dirt cheap."
Can’t speak for NC or Penn, but around here the utility will set a transformer for a residence for no fee but anything else costs $30K to set a transformer.
I wish your logic and just physics in general worked in my world! I could have put a 12" pipe in there and still would have had to haul dirt in to fill it before it was all said and done!
very cool of them to connect you to the grid for free/cheap. where im from, you coul do all the work yourself, and they would still charge thousands for the "hook up" fee.
Just did some quick numbers and I buiried about 80 000ft of single phase and 25000 ft of 4/0 3 phase in my job plus terminated most of it and installed the metering systems frothem too. Joel reppe Clear Lake SD
When we have a horse buried the operator used to spread the dirt around until I asked him to heap it up. I got tired of having to go back with more dirt to fill up the big divot. Haven't had a divot since.
48:24 Run little turtle!
Escaped just in time. 😅
That was pretty cool 😅
Fast turtle!
🐢
No Hare catching that baby😂😂😂😂😂
That is the longest and narrowest pond I’ve ever seen you dig. 😂
😂😂😂
Pretty shallow, too.
Poverty pond .
It's not a pond its a lazy river !!!! LOL
@@Unknown-w6b8n even better when the customer asks what's the biggest pond you have made just say I dug a river that's a mile or 2 long
Nice work, Chris. Looks awesome as usual. And knowing it's dug properly has to be worth the time, if not the money. Geoff showed the hurricane aftermath at his place, and I want to compliment you on not only how well the ponds and drainage direct all that water, but your dirt work. You sculpted so much of the land around the lake. And it all acts like undisturbed ground. The 20+ acres (front & back) look so fine. No erosion, no sinking, no soft spots. You are the king. And you shared every step with us. Thanks, Chris.
No one talking about the damn golf green of a front yard, it’s looking good!
Secretly Chris’ favourite comment!! 😂😂😊
Turtle escape at 48:20! 🐢
Turtle almost became a permanent fixtire 3 ft down...
Hi, let's dig.
Here in the UK, we put plastic tape and think it's yellow with a black stripe about 2 to 3 in wide, say 6 inches over any cables in the trench of electrical telecoms, fibre, or pipe.
It may be different colours for rhe diffrent sevices.
Dont know if it's mandatory?
But when someone is digging and gets near the pipe, the shovel or digger bucket exposes the tape first.
Even if it's not mandatory, I think it's a good idea re the small cost and is outweighed by the cost of hitting a sevice or worse an accident, cost of repairing a main fibre line is an arm and a leg.
Thanks for all your videos.
No wonder you have a constant supply of work.
Keep it up.
I’m a 71 year old man and I own a little 32 horse kubota with a little backhoe. I’d love to own a mini ex but at my age I don’t want to invest. I think they are wonderful and I thank you for all your videos
Another massive job done with precision and skill! 💪
Bet they were glad for your help.😁 Awesome job getting it done right and before the storm. 😎😍😅
You are great at digging a straight line. You`d be surprised how many roller coaster lines i have seen.
AWSOME AGAIN my friend 😀 Let's Dig 18,Over and over again 😀 ❤. Thanks for Sharing ❤😊
That was cool seeing the turtle come out on highspeed.
Job well done 👍🏻 8:22 he didn’t have his ice cream 😂 25:12 nice scoop 30:00 I like watching the water too 48:22 that turtle said I’m out of here
I have been thinking about y’all a lot today. I hope you all are safe and well. I know your area of NC got a good bit of rain from Debby. Hopefully flooding isn’t too bad. We are due to get it tonight and tomorrow as well here in VA. Y’all are in my thoughts and prayers. Thanks for the video. Great job as always! Take care!
Its really good that google maps have been updated,even Bealy Good shows the pond now and the beginning of the castle outlines
Should have dug it with the Bantam😉. You definitely would have been a pro with that machine by the end of that project.
that turtle said thank you , you saved its life .... who else caught that at 48:20
Howdy Chris! I hope you made it through all the rain without any damage. Take care and God Bless!!!❤😊
73year old Aussie here Mate enjoy your videos a lot always different never boring Thanks let’s dig 18
Awesome you got all the work done before the storm 👍👍
Trench filled with water... is a good way to find "level" :)
just watching you trench giving me flashbacks from the 300 lightpoles our complex did. 2.5 miles in total trenching with walk behind trencher, 60% hand digging and fighting very high water table, unusually rainy summer, buried boulders, construction debris. trench came out damned good for as long as it was , the battle with ground water
trenching my life away ...just replace driving with trenching and some other words and you almost have a new song...Drivin' My Life Away
Song by
Eddie Rabbitt
Well, the midnight headlight blind you on a rainy night
Steep grade up ahead, slow me down, makin' no time
But I gotta keep rollin'
Those windshield wipers slappin' out a tempo
Keepin' perfect rhythm with the song on the radio
But I gotta keep rollin'
Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away
Lookin' for a better way for me
Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away
Lookin' for a sunny day
Well, the truck stop cutie comin' on to me
Tried to talk me into a ride, said I wouldn't be sorry
But she was just a baby
Hey, waitress, pour me another cup of coffee
Pop it down, jack me up, shoot me out, flyin' down the highway
Lookin' for the mornin'
Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away
Lookin' for a better way for me
Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away
Lookin' for a sunny day
Well, the midnight headlight blind you on a rainy night
Steep grade up ahead, slow me down, makin' no time
But I gotta keep rollin'
Those windshield wipers slappin' out a tempo
Keepin' perfect rhythm with the song on the radio
But I gotta keep rollin'
Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away
Lookin' for a better way for me
Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away
Lookin' for a sunny day
Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away
Lookin' for a better way for me
Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away
Lookin' for a sunny day, yeah
Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away
Lookin' for a better way for me
From Ponds to Canals!
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
One of the first times I noticed a cuss word 😂 happens to us all! Still love your show!! Now feed that pump to one of those Cats
Chris You have digging with the Yanmar a long Line. You work with all Excavator a Perfect Line without every a Technological Instrument. Thid6 is Admirable. Your Videos always First Class. Thanks 💪👌👍
Fantastic ditch dig. Beautiful trenching. You can do it. Of course you took over!!! Time is money and it's your money!!! Great gob and video. Wish Texas had some of your rain and topsoil.
Thanks Chris. Enjoyed the video. Have a good week.
I’m only a few minutes into the video, but I sure hope you are pulling in primary voltage cable and a new transformer. Primary voltage is often 12.47 kV or 13.2 kV (phase-to-phase). Boy, if you are running several thousand feet of secondary wire (120/240 Volts), it may be just too far a distance to prevent significant voltage drops. (My background is in electrical engineering and I designed utility feeders at primary voltages, and I’m a master electrician working on the 600 volts and lower systems. Thanks for the great content!!
yes its primary
Excellent job sir, pretty straight forward 1700’ of trench I would say. The mini sure does a nice job for you, thanks for the farm/ cabin update, enjoyed watching sir.
Chris looking great! Thanks for sharing! Kevin
🤣🤣🤣 Funny to see the turtle go running away at the 48:20 mark.
nice work Chris, glad you got it done before the deluge struck.. saw all the flooding, hope all is good on the farms, stay safe ..
Clean and efficient as usual..the rental is looking awesome sitting back there!
Nice job on the trench and wire install Chris!
Chris, we used our tile plow and put in 3500 feet of primary for our local power company in 1 hour, definitely easier than digging.
48:20 awesome!!!!
12:50 Man oh man that is a nice thick layer of top soil. If hay prices drop, you know where to get some good quality top soil to sell.
Like to watch reminds myself driving a mini excavator mainly a kabota now retired great watching chris again saving lot with electric company you doing trenches thanks 👍👍 again great content late Thursday evening 🌆 UK time
Nice job Chris….Top soil to the right and clay next to the hole makes for grass coverage much sooner. Professional job as always.
You saved a big bunch of money by doing the trenching yourself Chris! I just love the way the Yanmar does trenching. Hopefully, you didn't loose too much by not being on a job. It's great to see that you're having such a great season.
Someone once said that “a penny saved is a penny earned”
@@dirtfarmer7472:
I believe that's been credited to a Mr. Benjamin Franklin 17/01/1706 - 17/04/1790.
@@daleallen7634
Thank you Sir
“Just went ahead and took over” 😂😂
42:44 I like how you lay the dirt out by type, and then fill it back in the way it came out, not unlike an artist.
Watching that ditch being dug is so satisfying We have nothing but rock here and it pisses me off daily. Lol you’re the only operator I can watch on UA-cam. You actually know what you’re doing
That was a lot of work.
Well done as usual.
Hi Chris after seeing what it cost Mat at Diesel Creek to have power connected to his place I think you got the best deal out there and he cut the trench too but as usual you have done another great job and all done before the hurricane hits, I see all the water that Geoff got on his place so I see not alot of work will be done over the next week thank's for another interesting and great video it looks like everything is coming together for you.
Great bartering Chris free for the labor of digging.
❤❤❤ Look @ the bright side!!
Yeah, that was a lot of rain here in Tampa. Looks like burning is going to a "go," once it dries up enough to start the piles (if any). Hope this rain doesn't hurt the ICF house and pool.
A rare show of anger from you, over the abused pump Chris! Great video, keep ‘em coming
that would have been pain full to wait to get done by them. sure went better your way. well at lest they had wire. well done. cheers.
It would probably have been messier as well, with dirt spread all over.
That turtle @ 48:19 was a nice touch
What a talented guy!
Who the turtle
Another one of my great ideas… grab a 5-6ft log or something with thumb, turn at a 45 degree angle and “walk” along with mini to drag dirt back in ditch!
I seem to remember that Diesel Creek had to use gravel, conduit, and a red plastic ribbon that said "danger power line".
Sometimes those narrow buckets will make you "pull your hair out!" But you did a fine job of getting the work accomplished. Well done.....as usual!!!
Greeting from aceh bro...
That beautiful job to do with heavy equipment
and from the looks of the Bealy Good Farm this mornings vid showed, you were right to get it covered. Nice when you have your own equipment to do something like this.
Great job Chris
I remember it cost Diesel Creek something like $50,000 to have 1,500' of cable run through conduit he installed!
Don't forget the differences in where they live...the Carolinas are totally different from "Taxylvania."
Yes, I remember that episode.
that system of piling worked perfectly!
The difference between PA and NC is like here between IN and IL. PA and IL both want everything you made and your firstborn for something everyone else gets for free. You gotta love like in a rual state. If I ever buy a mini, it's going to be a Yanmar. It is very dependable and does a great job with no major issues like a lot of those mini excavators have. Hopefully, you get some rest, Chris, and the cabin looks awesome.
Awesome job!!!
24 years ago here in western pa i had electric run to a new home 200 ft. from the road. Regulations then were 42 inch deep trench with 6 inches of sand and had to be backfilled immediately. I opted to have it run in conduit and it was able to be backfilled at a later time. Power co. place a pole at the road with a tranform, ran the power through conduit to the meter box. They never charged me a dime. My cost was having the trench dug and the meter box on house ( which i purchased locally). I later backfilled the trench with my tractor.
Have mini excavator and mini baby bucket save $$$$ and many of them. That soil looks nice. Great effort and clean up before the 'storm'.
Big storm coming with a lot of rain watch out be safe
Good job mate well done
Thanks for the video like it it was very long trench , and here in Canada Ontario wee have to dig 3 ft, and coverd it 6 inch of sand and barry it
TERTLE, at 48.20 making a run for it and just making it out the ditch in time
I thought it was a fresh water crab. My southern hemisphere eyes are not attuned to turtles! Chris usually spots turtles and gives them time. Col, NZ
Oh my goodness 😳 mate,thankfully that you know a good reliable contractor Chris. As the task will definitely be accomplished asp, on specs and time,
That poor ol' water pump needs to be 'tuned up' to allow the engine to run more smoothly. After properly tuned and serviced, it'll also pump water more efficiently too.
Nice looking ditching job Chris.
And that’s why I hate to lend out my equipment, small or large. Finally put in a new rule, if it breaks when you have it you fix it or buy me a new one. Don’t care if it’s your fault or not. If they won’t agree to that they don’t get to use it. Hated to be that way but it just got old going to use something and it being broke.
Maybe maintain it before you lend it out should be one of your rules too .Easy to pass the buck when it was laziness & carelessness from the owner that was the initial 😏 problem.
Makes total sense. Either that or you can pay me and my equipment rate and I will take care of maintenance.
It's a shame you have to do that so it's a small list who I trust who will take responsibility
I hate to borrow.use others anything for that reason. If it breaks I'm on the hook to fixit.
Not the case at all. Some don’t care but equipment and tools are too expensive not to take care of. Hell, I sharpen,clean and spray all the hand tools with diesel before being put away for winter. Most people just don’t understand. If you want it to last take care of it.
Nice video Chris.
Doing the trench work saves you a bundle and if the power company pays for the power line that's a sweet deal.
Remember the old ice cream scoops that had a thumb pushed lever to empty the scoop? How about something like that for the trenching bucket that was worked with hydraulic button? Might be a new "Letsdig18" designed attachment patent.
I kept wondering if WD-40 might help?
1 foot bucket sucks….any kind of dirt sticks in them
Idk if anyone noticed, but even on the trench, Chris separated the topsoil and clay so he could put the topsoil back on top. The fine details are what he is so good at!
Everything you do is so meticulous. That’s why I like watching your channel.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
nice job chris
That's exactly why, I don't loan my shit out anymore, unless I know for damn sure you take care of your tools and stuff like I do !! If I even think ya don't , your not getting nothing !! Have had to much stuff ruined just like that pump tore up and broken, and then the fckr's don't even tell ya, it's broke !! That really pisses me off !! Yeah, just watched Geoff's video, you guys have got a ton of freaking rain, and more coming it's looking like... But, that was one hell of a little run there Chris !! Glad ya got it in before that Big Storm hit ya !! Great as Always Man, Have a Great Evening, And , on too the Next !!
I've had to tell people I didn't buy equipment to loan it out
I don't let anyone borrow anything, especially family.
@williammatthews2948 Yeah there first to get you and say it was broke when they got it
@@rodneystewart8958 And they'll get mad at you if you look at them wrong when you see that it's broken.
And that's why Chris allows only a very small group of friends run his machines. The one time someone had an incident the person owned up and repaired the error himself.
perfect job for trencher.
Must be nice to dig in air conditioning. When I started in 1973 as an electrical apprentice, we had a choice of round point or square point. People who burn the seals out of small pumps like that need to be the ones to replace the seals. Always prime, if it doesn`t catch shut off the engine and get more priming water. Hurricane Debby gave us Cat 1 winds and almost 6 inches of rain. Parts of the local area is flooded.
I like the longer video, thank you.
Chris, you do good work!
Hey Chris !!! Look at the ""FUN"" you missed by NOT digging the ditch with the ""BANTAM"" !!! HAHA
Surprised at depth of your power trench. Like it.
Great video as always bro and did not notice the turtle till I went back and looked. Lucky it scampered into the long grass. Big savings putting in the trench yourself that is for sure. Safe travels. Ken.
And that is why I don’t lend equipment out any more. Walk behind rototiller came back with a busted gear box.
Matt of Diesel Creek had a very long run for power to his new shop. He chose to rent a ride on trencher. Much faster than using a mini excavator.
Matt's utility charger him approx $60k and Matt had to purchase and install the PVC conduit and pull line for the wire...a very unhappy camper.
You got off "dirt cheap."
That’s one of the reasons why so many Pennsylvanians are moving south!
Pure therapy.
Hey Chris Matt from diesel creek pated 50.000 to get his power ran and he dug the ditch and bought the pipe and put it in.Good job
48:20 you saved that poor turtle that had gotten stuck in the trench. Didn't even know it.
Power company guy was home by 3:00 that day. Good for him.
Good Video Thax 👍😀👍
518 meters that's a smidge over half a k, a very long trench nice job Chris
Not putting locate/warning/marking tape 30cm (12 inches) above the cable makes the backfill much easier.
What no $56,000 bill like Diesel Creek had?
That always sounded like something crooked was going on. I was sorry to see that happen to Matt.
Poor Diesel Creek had to put in conduit for his run. you can tell different parts of the country and different ways of doing things i guess.
Can’t speak for NC or Penn, but around here the utility will set a transformer for a residence for no fee but anything else costs $30K to set a transformer.
looks like so much fun.
I wish your logic and just physics in general worked in my world! I could have put a 12" pipe in there and still would have had to haul dirt in to fill it before it was all said and done!
very cool of them to connect you to the grid for free/cheap. where im from, you coul do all the work yourself, and they would still charge thousands for the "hook up" fee.
Just did some quick numbers and I buiried about 80 000ft of single phase and 25000 ft of 4/0 3 phase in my job plus terminated most of it and installed the metering systems frothem too. Joel reppe Clear Lake SD
When we have a horse buried the operator used to spread the dirt around until I asked him to heap it up. I got tired of having to go back with more dirt to fill up the big divot. Haven't had a divot since.
yup if it came out of the hole it will eventually settle back into it