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If the term mobile home was not a generic term in including ones designed to be used as a dwelling, and ones Not Intended as a Dwelling Unit. Then the term to be used as a dwelling would not been in the definition. There would have been no need for the terminology.

The fact that the terminology designed to be used as a dwelling is there indicates it was to separates it from something, so my mind asked what, the answer what was happing in the industry at the time , with- in the article it is found in 550.4

I?m not really losing sleep on this since I?m hoping the manufactures instructions will kick you back to the article 550 concept for mobile homes
 
david said:
if article 550 dosn't apply than how do we get from the NEC that a feeder is required as the supply.

why cant it be supplied as a service?
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From an NEC perspective and a safety perspective I see no reason it could not be directly supplied from a service.

How does putting the service on a post a few feet away increase safety?

From a real life perspective our power companies will not allow us to hang a service on a mobile structure.
 
david said:
If the term mobile home was not a generic term in including ones designed to be used as a dwelling, and ones Not Intended as a Dwelling Unit. Then the term to be used as a dwelling would not been in the definition. There would have been no need for the terminology.
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Wow, are you reading my posts? Are you giving them the least bit of thought? :?

Let my try it this way

Why do they label these units 'mobile home' if that is up for debate?
 
iwire said:
Wow, are you reading my posts? Are you giving them the least bit of thought? :?

Let my try it this way

Why do they label these units 'mobile home' if that is up for debate?
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The answer to that question may go beyond the NEC, there are other codes that apply to these structures that are not quite the same as building codes for other structures.

As I have said the way I see it the NEC definition of a mobile home does indicate it is also a dwelling, so anything that tries to call a non dwelling application a mobile home is in conflict with the definition before we have a chance to go any further into art 550.
 
iwire said:
Wow, are you reading my posts? Are you giving them the least bit of thought? :?

Let my try it this way

Why do they label these units 'mobile home' if that is up for debate?
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I will agree with you that article 550 under the term mobile home addresses only trailers, weather job trailers or some other type that were being manufactured from mobile home manufacturing facilities.

It is my understanding that there was no mandatory law requiring mobile home manufactures to adhere to. States began to develop regulations and some sates choose not to regulate them at all.
When it comes to mobile homes (not manufactured homes) it was wide open what could come out of a manufacturing facility depending on the state, what could be called a mobile home. from an online search article

"There was very little to be said in favor of the house trailer or of the typical trailer camp of which it was a part. In 1942 the average mobile home was only seven feet wide and seventeen feet long, and was equipped with neither toilet or shower. In 1945, 18 mobile home builders came together to form the Mobile Home Association. As the recreation vehicle industry developed and diverged from the mobile home industry, the association was renamed I Manufactured Housing Association to better reflect its membership In the 1960s, two-section mobile homes became popular and a mobile home construction code was developed by the Mobile Home Craftsmen Guild. During the 1970s, one mobile home was built for every three site-built homes. The twelve-foot-wide trailer was not introduced until 1962, and the so-called ?double-wide" mobile home did not come into being until 1965. Two-section mobile homes became popular and a mobile home construction code was developed by the Mobile Home Craftsmen Guild. During the 1970s, one mobile home was built for every three site-built homes. In 1978 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development established a national building code for manufactured housing, which changed the industry to what we see today"

[The congestion of living conditions inherent in a trailer park, together with the uncertainty as to sanitary conditions, including water, sewage, cooking, bathing and washing facilities, and the fact that the occupants of a trailer park may be to a large extent transitory, are all very patent reasons why such a business is so affected with a public interest as to make it a proper subject for legislative
regulation under the broad police powers of the state.Nichols v. Pirkle, 202 Ga. 372, 43 S.E.2d 306, 308 (1947).]
 
david said:
I forgot to add two (?) marks in the above post the paragraph needed two be divided into two sections
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Those who want to can believe trailers manufactured as mobile homes had to meet some specific description if you want to, but that was not regulated, granted to receive some associations seal you would have to meet that associations standards but that was voluntary compliance if the manufacture wanted to be part of an association.

I believe 550.4 was for those non typical mobile trailers that came from manufactured home facilities and the section was directing the user of the NEC to supply them in accordance with 550.32 (A) and thats all I have left on the subject

Sarasota Herald- Tribune Thursday Jan, 19, 1961
Now in its fourth year, the Gold Seal program was the first national code in the mobile home industry and is still the most complete. Mobile home manufactures whose products proudly wear this Gold Seal emblem are all members of the Mobile Home Craftsman?s Guild who use the Gold Seal as a symbol of high quality and complete reliability which their standards provide.
 
iwire said:
Whoa there bud, that was a staple of the family summer parties. :cool:



You are right there. I have only gone target shooting.



I live in a built up area but we have mobile home parks nearby and good sized farms near by.



:lol:
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For what it's worth I've never shot a prarie dog either but I still like ACDC also and when I was younger was country enough that I've set up a blackbird trap by propping up an old screen door on a stick out in the snow in the back yard, and run the string inside the back door and jerk the stick out from underneath it when they came to eat the bread that was placed under it just to pass the time........ just sayin.
 
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