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Re: Be Careful around UNDERGROUND POWER!


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Posted by The tractor vet on September 19, 2013 at 22:08:58 from (75.19.125.100):

In Reply to: Be Careful around UNDERGROUND POWER! posted by Jiles on September 19, 2013 at 20:19:58:

Twice in my life time i have had dealing with the CALL BEFORE YOU DIG. One time while working in the Oil patch around here some thirtyfive years ago i had to put in and entrance way in and build a drilling location , i saw the boxes along the road for under ground phone lines and i called ahead of any dirt moving . The next day i meet the guy at the site and he hooked up his gizzmo and marked out where the line was SUPPOSE to be , i told him to just stick around for a little bit . I jumped up on the dozer and started my cut staying away from his marks and on the third pass with the blade here comes a big black cable about four inches round rollen off the blade . There were about a thousand little fraid wire sticking out the end . It was NOT the line he had marked BUT a trans continental that he did not mark. Dodged the bullet on that one since he told me there was NOTHING else to worry about. Then there was the time i was helping a friend put in a new housing development and it was to have all under ground utility’s , We had the streets in and curbs poured and the base down for the pavement and i started to dig the ditches for the under ground stuff as per Ohio Edison told us . They said to run the stabilizer of the back hoe close to the curb and just dig about forty inches deep all around the development and they would dig the ditches to the transformer pads themselfs. And they would backfill all of them when they were done . When i was done with the ditching Myself and my buddy went to another town to cut paths for a servery to lay out the streets on another development , we were up there for a week cutting paths so they could set centerline for the new streets . When we came back to the Forest the engineers came by and told us that they had made a mistake on the culvert and that we had to dig out the one thirty inch one and install a 48 inch that went UNDER the curbs and street and under the now installed power lines with 7600 volt that is now LIVE . This is going to be fun as we must remove the one and redo the whole storm drain system , well we knew where i dug the ditches and we found the one line on the west side of the street but we were having a problem finding the one on the east side as it was NOT where i had dug the org. ditch following the curb, while we were gone Ohio Ed did not follow the path that we had agreed on they went from the one transformer and cut across this one lot at a 45 degree angle to save some wire and never told us or anybody , while we were looking for the line the shovel operator who was nowhere near us but digging up the old culvert found it in the middle of the one houses ft yard that was under const. Well let me tell you that a John Deere 690 with a 42 inch bucket and 7600 volts makes for a pretty loud BOOOOOOM and it blew out the right side of the bucket and three teeth , yep there was a bunch of arm waven lots of shouting lots of fingure pointing and lots of people out of power as not only did it take out the bucket but that little shortcut they made also took out half a substation . Lucky no one was hurt or killed . They also redid the line like it was suppose to be .


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