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Posted by Tom The Great on April 24, 2006, 3:29 pm
On 24 Apr 2006 06:34:05 -0700, Meano.Culpa@yahoo.com wrote:
>RBM wrote:
>> One common situation I've had is replacing broken or rotten
>> residential lamp posts. [...snip...]
>
>Thanks to all for the replies. The splices in question were in fact to
>feed a light post, but not because the post is rotting.
>
>Epilogue:
>Since the two cuts were in the middle of a 70 foot underground run, I
>decided to hand dig just for the splices down to 18" (about ten feet of
>trench), trim the existing UF line back to cable unaffected by the
>backhoe and splice in new UF wire using four of the ($11) Ideal UF
>splice kits from Home Depot.
>
>Materials cost was about $55 all-in. If the line were crucial, I
>probably would have dug the 70' trench and replaced the line
>end-to-end. As it is, the line is a seldom-used feed for the lightpole
>and nothing else - failure wouldn't be a disaster - so I skipped the
>70' hand dig.
>
>In retrospect, I spent much more time cutting, stripping and splicing
>the UF cable than I would have hand-digging the trench. I had never
>worked with UF before, and managed to give myself a pretty nice gash
>with a utility knife before I got the knack of stripping the solid
>outer jacket. Lesson: hand-digging a trench to bury cable just doesn't
>take that long. If I had done the hand-dig, I would have saved both
>time and money and would have a better result in the ground right now.
>
>I may have a chance to check this out later. As I said, I didn't
>splice the cable because the lamp post is rotting, I spliced it because
>a backhoe hit the cable in two places. Having said that, the lamp post
>is, in fact, rotting.
>
>Again, thanks to all for your attention and for sharing your knowledge.
Thx for the follow-up.
Have to admit, that sometimes getting overzealous with a knife to cut
uf's jacket has resulted in me damaging the individual conductor
insulations, so I understand why it took a while.
later,
tom @ www.CarFleaMarket.com
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