hockeyoligist2
Senior Member
- Location
- close to greenville sc
A recent upgrade, about a year and 1/2.
This morning a hundred + foot underground, covered with asphalt, run shorted and burned all four of the wires in two, 480v. We pulled them out and tried to push a tape through, no go.
Another one inch conduit with four #12's went box to box, so we tried to pull another set of #12's using the green. Green broke, so we tried pulling all of the wires together with a tape attached to the other end, no go!
Finally, we got one of the mechanics to pull it with his truck mounted crane and got it out.
It had four butt splices on all of the wires! So much tape on them that they sounded like a wine cork when they popped out of the conduit!
We have ran in to many problems with this GC over the years and they always are the low-ball bidder and the company keeps hiring them!
Sorry, just venting.............. I need to go throw my soggy, sweat and slick-em coated, clothes in the washing machine before sweet thang gets home......
This morning a hundred + foot underground, covered with asphalt, run shorted and burned all four of the wires in two, 480v. We pulled them out and tried to push a tape through, no go.
Another one inch conduit with four #12's went box to box, so we tried to pull another set of #12's using the green. Green broke, so we tried pulling all of the wires together with a tape attached to the other end, no go!
Finally, we got one of the mechanics to pull it with his truck mounted crane and got it out.
It had four butt splices on all of the wires! So much tape on them that they sounded like a wine cork when they popped out of the conduit!
We have ran in to many problems with this GC over the years and they always are the low-ball bidder and the company keeps hiring them!
Sorry, just venting.............. I need to go throw my soggy, sweat and slick-em coated, clothes in the washing machine before sweet thang gets home......