Re-setting Electric Pole & Panel Pictures

[mudcat]

And FIRST PRIZE goes to............Obed. Congradulations Sir, You just received the TBN "OVER ENGINEERING" Award. What are you going to do now?
It looks good. Overbuilt, yes. Who cares, From what I see you are having a blast. Keep up the good work!

 

[Obed]

And FIRST PRIZE goes to............Obed. Congradulations Sir, You just received the TBN "OVER ENGINEERING" Award. What are you going to do now?

Guilty as charged. You guys crack me up!
Obed

 

[lopezian]

And FIRST PRIZE goes to............Obed. Congradulations Sir, You just received the TBN "OVER ENGINEERING" Award. What are you going to do now?
It looks good. Overbuilt, yes. Who cares, From what I see you are having a blast. Keep up the good work!

I'm sorry, but Obed will have to settle for first-runner-up. The winner and all-time champion over-engineer is...

khd for the solid Oak timber frame tractor shed!

( I think it was designed to he could park the tractor on the ROOF if he wanted to. It is a beautiful thing to behold, though. )

 

[Obed]

During the past week my wife purchased all the parts for the re-assembly. She cut 2 feet off of the conduit and glued the the plastic threaded collar to the bottom of the conduit where it connects to the top of the meter box. When we got to the property we re-assembled the conduit, meter box, and panel and carried them as a unit to the pole. The short plastic section between the meter box and panel are made of two plastic threaded collars glued to a short piece of conduit. You can't see the short piece of conduit. Unfortunately we broke the glue joint of this short plastic section when we leaned the assembly against the pole.

 

[Obed]

We detached the panel from the assembly and screwed the meter box and conduit as a unit to the pole.

 

[Obed]

We re-glued the plastic section between the meter box and panel and attached them to the pole. Then we reconnected the two hot wires and the neutral wire to the bottom terminals in the meter box. A little bit later we reconnected the ground wire to the meter box and ran it down the pole and re-connected it to the ground rod. I tacked the ground wire to the pole with a couple staples.

 

[Obed]

Originally the electrician had knocked out too big of hole in the bottom of the panel leading to the RV jack. The conduit connected to this enlarged hole did not connect very well. My wife purchased a ring adapter that effectively made the hole smaller. This adapter acts like a washer to close the hole so the conduit will fit snuggly.

 

[Obed]

Next we re-attached the 30A RV jack and the 120V GFCI receptacle. Notice that we screwed a piece of particle board to the post to create a spot wide enough to locate the RV jack and 120V receptacle side-by-side. The electrician had originally screwed both the RV jack and the 120V receptacle directly to the pole with the 120V receptacle located below the RV jack. This arrangement placed the 120V receptacle only 5 inches from the ground. I was afraid that a hard rain might splash water from the ground into the receptacle so we rearranged the RV jack and 120V receptacle to be side-by-side. This final arrangement situates the lowest part of the assembly 12 inches from the ground. I would have preferred it to be 18 inches above grade but that would raise the meter box another 6 inches and was afraid doing so would cause the electric company to fail the inspection. The center of the meter box is already a little higher than 5 1/2 feet above the ground.

 

[Obed]

Since we didn't have the swage crimping tools to attach the guy-wire, I re-nailed one of the 2X4 braces to the pole. The guy-wire will have to wait until our next visit. The FEL sure makes a handy ladder.

 

[lopezian]

How durable is that particle board when exposed to weather? Is that a weak point?