Sorry it's been a few days since the last post but I should have some pic's soon from the transmission yard so you can see us in action hot stick'n and as far as the Bismark job, we are DONE. I think we ended up changing out around 50 poles, mostly single phase poles out in the country but still, good learning/work for an apprentice to do!
Alright, so to bring you up to speed on what were doing now ~ For the past week we have been doing a underground job in Dewey Illinois. The local Grain Coop, in Dewey is upgrading there service. We wrecked out the Three pot bank that was there, they had your standard wye/delta closed bank, I think the transformers were 500's and we installed a pad mount which you can see in the pics that had 8 runs of secondaries on her. That's a lot of bending and pulling to get all those bastards in there the right way. Also, since it's 3 phase ~ you'll notice that there are three primary elbows on the left side of the can. All the apprentices did this pad mount so we'll see if she blows tomorrow when we close it in and heat everything up. We are also going to re-conductor about 6 spans of number #4 ACSR. What we did was tear down the old #4 and we just ran rope up thru dollies that we placed on the arms and we strung 1/0 ACSR so that should up the power a bit and it looks a whole lot better than it did before. We probably should have changed out a few of the buck poles but Ameren is strictly doing must do work until the rate case get's settled.
Well, other than that not much is going on but again, I'm sorry I haven't been posting much lately, but it's been HOTT and I've been tired as hell. My better half has convinced me to start a work out plan so right after work I've been heading to the gym. So we'll see if I can't step it up a bit, and I should be able to post a few more blogs in the near future.
be safe
hurtman dan
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