Phil Timmons
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- Mar 18, 2008
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The ground wire generally goes to the bottom of the pole, and has a few wraps around the pole before the pole goes into the hole.Currently my red clay soil is very moist, so I have a really good ground. By summer, my soil will dry out and it wont be as good. I have a hot wire around my pasture that I had to put in three ground rods, ten feet apart, to get to work in the summer.
Every power pole has a copper wire running down the length of the pole into the ground. I'm not sure how deep they go, but there isn't a grown rod, just the bare wire stapled to the post.
Seems to me that I put in a ground rod when putting the meter base together, but it's not a good memory, so I'm not positive if there is one there or not. I have one ten foot ground rod at both of my panels at my house.
Is there a contact in TX to call and complain about this?
Is your wire still down?