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Harold in CR:
Frank, Got a pipe about 3" diameter? Take a piece of wood and drive it in the end of the pipe.
Cut a "V" groove in the wood so it will grip the cable to prevent sliding, and make the pipe whatever length
you need for height.
Take a 2x8 about 2 feet long and use it for a pad to set the pipe on. Drive a pin in the ground through a hole in the 2x8 directly under the cable. Strap it to your backhoe bucket and stick the "V" under the cable and raise it up and set the pipe over the pin. The weight of the slack of the cable will prevent slipping. Just place it plumb both ways. I
I did this a couple of times with 3/2 aluminum twist. Your copper will be much heavier.
Frank S:
I know what you are saying Harrold but I currently have enough obstacles to have to try an maneuver stuff as long as 40 feet around. Plus with the way our winds are so cyclic a relatively calm 10 MPH wind one minute can be a 30 MPH gust without warning then remain a 20 MPH sustained for hours. Any lift pole tall enough for me to drive under with the gin pole would need to be well guyed and that would just create more encroachment into my maneuvering space.
I'll either have to drop the line or remove the gin pole and relocate all of the materials to another area where I won't have to drive back and forth under the line.
The thing is if I drop it then I won't put it back . I'll put it in a 1 1/2" poly line and burry it The line is over 450 ft long now on 2 poles and burring it would shorten it to just under 400. At one time it was used as a 30 amp service to the well and for an RV connection Neither are required at this time but I do want to at least have a 20 amp service at the well for future use by shortening the line 50 to 60 feet will more than make up for the loss of in the air heat dissipation given that the service will only be 20 amps on the #4 line and I won't ever have to concern myself with n overhead obstruction in future,
MY safest bet would be to flag down one of the electric service bucket trucks and palm a "C" note in the guys hand to drop it for me at both poles
Bruce S:
Frank S ;
Short of a bucket truck coming by. No possible come-along or truck mounted winch? I can empathize about the age related attitude. Height no problem, going turtle ,,, not so good. Shooting the rope even less "FUN" .
DanG:
I'm having trouble visualizing why... a pole or poles aren't pulled and gently lowered down (for service) with the F.R. Anks Industries Mk-5 Skytrack pole plucker... Oh, wait, yeah yeah, guess its just me :)
Frank S:
--- Quote from: DanG on December 10, 2019, 03:46:54 PM ---I'm having trouble visualizing why... a pole or poles aren't pulled and gently lowered down (for service) with the F.R. Anks Industries Mk-5 Skytrack pole plucker... Oh, wait, yeah yeah, guess its just me :)
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Good one. Trust me I have thought about just chain sawing it off at the ground If I could get the back hoe up next to it to chain it off so it couldn't fall on something it shouldn't fall on like the house or the green house or the guy wire to the mains service pole
What I should have done when the electric company moved the service would have been to have them pull it before they installed their pole but I was thinking about leaving the line and using it as it was, Now I am more inclined to think I'd rather run the line in a poly pipe under ground eventually
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