Posted by JD Seller on February 11, 2016 at 17:50:08 from (208.126.198.123):
Well we found the trouble. Some animal most likely a gopher decided to burrow under the concrete cattle yard. At about 100 feet from any edge they decided to chew through the 4 inch PCV conduit. Well they did pretty good until they chewed the insulation off one hot leg and the ground wire. Hot cooked animal!!!! We got the old wire pulled out pretty easy and then we found the shorted area. there was not much water if any in the conduit. A local electrical fellow had a camera that had a long enough lead to pull through the conduit. We could see the hole in the side of the conduit about 400 feet from one end.
So now what???? we could have jack hammered the concrete out and repaired the conduit. This would have fixed the current issue but we might have another animal decide to try it out again. We rerouted the electric run. We used about 200 feet on one end of the old conduit where it goes under the drive ways and about 100 feet on the other end where it goes to the silos. The balance of the conduit is now above ground. We tucked it under the edge of the feed bunks and ran the length of the cattle yards that way. We put splice boxes at each end and on in the middle. Doing it this way allowed us to recover the majority of the current wire. Plus the system now will be easier to repair in the future.
One thing I forgot to mention is this is a TOTAL of 400 amps. It is two 200 amp services in tandem. So there is six wires in the conduit. It is tight.
The additional 750 feet of wire cost more than the entire wire cost eight years ago. I like how we have not had any inflation.
Upload one or more videos to your post. Photo filesizes should be less than 300K and Videos, less than 2MB. Formats allowed are gif, jpg, png, ogg, mp4, mov, and avi. Be sure to use filenames without spaces or special characters, and filetypes of 3 digits lower case.
We sell tractor parts! We have the parts you need to repair your tractor - the right parts. Our low prices and years of research make us your best choice when you need parts. Shop Online Today. [ About Us ]
Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
... [Read Article]
Latest Ad:
1964 I-H 140 tractor with cultivators and sidedresser. Starts and runs good. Asking 2650. CALL RON AT 502-319-1952
[More Ads]
All Rights Reserved. Reproduction of any part of this website, including design and content, without written permission is strictly prohibited. Trade Marks and Trade Names contained and used in this Website are those of others, and are used in this Website in a descriptive sense to refer to the products of others. Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy
TRADEMARK DISCLAIMER: Tradenames and Trademarks referred to within Yesterday's Tractor Co. products and within the Yesterday's Tractor Co. websites are the property of their respective trademark holders. None of these trademark holders are affiliated with Yesterday's Tractor Co., our products, or our website nor are we sponsored by them. John Deere and its logos are the registered trademarks of the John Deere Corporation. Agco, Agco Allis, White, Massey Ferguson and their logos are the registered trademarks of AGCO Corporation. Case, Case-IH, Farmall, International Harvester, New Holland and their logos are registered trademarks of CNH Global N.V.
