2 September 2018

This was RV power day.  First step was to very, very carefully use the backhoe to excavate the 10-2 UF wire (UF = underground feed, which means the wire can be direct buried vice having to be in a conduit) that brings power to the RV.  Only had to dig up the section of wire that was between the main power pedestal and the south edge of the driveway (where the wire enters a conduit that runs underneath the asphalt).  That digging went pretty smoothly until I got to the top of the little hill where the pedestal is located.  There the wire plummeted downwards; ditto the end that once was connected to the electrical subpanel that was on the main pedestal until last Friday.  I dug and I dug and I doug some more, getting halfway to China before the wire leveled out.  Seems some IDIOT ran the RV wire UNDERNEATH the 4″ conduit which connects the main pedestal to the house!!!!  What was he thinking?!?!?  Wire finally freed from the bowels of the Earth, next step was to feed it through the conduit that was inserted into the barn’s western concrete wall just for that purpose.  Except that some IDIOT was cheap, cheap, cheap and put in a ½″ diameter conduit (which he had in abundance left over from past projects) instead of buying the ¾″ that would have made pulling that very stiff, solid core wire so much easier.  What was he thinking?!?!?  No need, again today, for a workout at the gym.  By sauna time, the RV wires were connected in the barn’s new subpanel, the main pedestal was cut down to size, and the trenches were backfilled.