Posted by ericlb on April 22, 2017 at 09:27:51 from (174.238.128.233):
well im back this last week has been a nightmare for the whole family, lost power last saturday early am, we're rural, and that's not unusual, but after a time, i began to notice. the only ones without power is us! that's not good, power is live at the meter which thanks to the previous owner is 500 feet away, had the electrical guy come out and locate the line which is underground, he marked it, using dowsing rods? on aluminum wire? but... he got lost ,i know where the power goes into the house due to previous adventures, and his "location" isn't even on the same side of the house,about normal for 'professionals' around here, so we dug some test holes with the backhoe,looking for power lines, [ main breaker off!]found it, yep broke it, spliced it,tried the breaker, and had hot line there, but not at the house, after a day digging some more holes revealing nothing, no wires in the most likely locations, its time to call it and start over, so, 1 week, a grand, 1 messed up backhoe engine, which im hoping is just a injector or 2 taking a dump, [ the thing only has 2300 hours on it] and 500 foot of new wire, plus cutting my farm road which is/was paved, im back, now the bad part is with no power, lites are not really an issue , we retire early at nite as most farm folk do, and have plenty of battery powered lites, but no power means running the generator every 4 hours in order to save our food in 3 fridges/ freezers, that means nite time too get up at 12, start generator, get up at 100 turn off, get up at 5 start gen, turn off at 6, you get it, no deep restful sleep!, now the real fun, showers are at my mil's house which is 30 miles away, annoying, but toilet, ah yes that! well, you get a bucket, and go to the river, which you have to climb down a steep 40 foot bank, then come in and fill the toilet and take care of business, what a week!
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