Haha, interesting. Weird how they would abandon the cable. Is that normal practice.
It may be worth hiring a cable detector and having a search.
I wonder where the "third drop wire"
Possibly a Metal Detector?
Possibly a Metal Detector?
Could do as well as finding every other bit of buried metal! (though you might find a treasure trove which could pay for the supply)
P.S. see my edit above
That makes total sense, but how does it fit with what you were saying in a recent thread? You didn't seem to see any great problem with the fact that a cable which had ceased to supply street lighting a decade or more ago had been left, live, with free taped-up ends, on the side of someone's house (where some foolish person injured himself by sawing through it!). That cable clearly had not "been made dead as close as possible to its point of supply" for at least a decade after it last supplied a load.Any cable that no longer supplies any load must be made dead as close to it's point of supply as possible!Haha, interesting. Weird how they would abandon the cable. Is that normal practice.
That makes total sense, but how does it fit with what you were saying in a recent thread? You didn't seem to see any great problem with the fact that a cable which had ceased to supply street lighting a decade or more ago had been left, live, with free taped-up ends, on the side of someone's house (where some foolish person injured himself by sawing through it!). That cable clearly had not "been made dead as close as possible to its point of supply" for at least a decade after it last supplied a load.
Hmmm. I'm not sure that the 'taped up' was, in itself, the main issue but, rather, the fact that a live cable with an unterminated end had been left stuck on the side of someone's wall for a decade! As someone (I think EFLI) said, it seemed comparable to him leaving an unterminated live cable half way up someone's living room wall. Most of us were fully in agreement that to take a hacksaw to a fat electricity cable without taking steps to make absolutely sure that the cable was dead was an extremely foolish thing to do, but there also seemed to be suggestions that the DNO was not 'at fault' at all!I didn't have a particular issue that it was taped up, as that is how DNOs do it! I NEVER suggested that it being live, or that it had been left in place if dead, was acceptable. ... I just, on that thread, didn't point folk to where the DNO had "failed", but suggested they find it out for themselves! ... I also DID point out that just because it was taped up only meant that it was taped up and not live or dead which some seemed to suggest was the case.That makes total sense, but how does it fit with what you were saying in a recent thread? You didn't seem to see any great problem with the fact that a cable which had ceased to supply street lighting a decade or more ago had been left, live, with free taped-up ends, on the side of someone's house (where some foolish person injured himself by sawing through it!). That cable clearly had not "been made dead as close as possible to its point of supply" for at least a decade after it last supplied a load.
Can you get a split-phase supply from your farmer neighbour's existing transformer? A 460V:230V transformer will cost around £7k, but might be cheaper than all the HV work.
Even at only 30A or 40A per phase? (assuming you're not heating the place with electric).
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