Sunday, September 9, 2012

Trenching

Many Thanks to Russell Askew and Brad Stallings for making this happen.  We were able to save quite a bit of money by doing all the trenching ourselves for Dominion to lay the power lines.  After the cables here are laid, another crew will come in later and replace this pole and place the transformer where it will ultimately be.

Only after about 10 minutes I would guess!  Things were going really smooth!

Craig shoveling around the first culvert.  We had to go under it with a piece of conduit.


Progress up to the big ditch was smooth, and then we had to figure out the best way to dig 30" below the bottom of the ditch.  Oh yeah, there was about 30" of water in the ditch too!
 
It was a little slower, but no issues, and the conduit went back in and the ditch was cleaned back up afterward. 
 
 
 
After the trench for Dominion was completed, Brad also trenched the water line, the geothermal waste line and a trench to run the electric cable to the well!  At the end of day I think we were all content with the amount of work that got done - and very little of it involved a shovel ;)

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