A fun little sidetracked moment here. This job is directly across from a place called the STAR school. It was the first totally off grid school in the country and is still one of the few that exist at all. A couple of years ago, we revamped their solar power system over there.
Their students are primarily off of the reservation. This year they have a class that includes some agriculture. They have a couple of cattle on the property, some sheep with a livestock guardian dog and several plots for growing food, including corn beans and squash. And also pumpkins.
It’s a really neat program and gives the kids an idea of how to grow some of their own food and also just how the food chain works. I was lucky enough to have been talking to the maintenance supervisor while he was pulling pumpkins out of the patch prior to the freeze that’s coming and managed to get one of these really cool white ghost pumpkins and a couple of these little ornamental pumpkins so we decorated our front “porch “with them. Really cool!
Wire, wire, and more wire!
Today we moved and pulled wire constantly.
The wire pulls ranged in size from smallish at number one all the way up to full Boats of 4/0. Our Tugger was in constant use today.
We pulled in a total of nine separate runs, totaling I don’t even know how many thousands of feet of wire.
The day was the opposite of yesterday-no problems, nothing but kick ass forward motion the entire day. It’s what we needed to get us back on track and back on our schedule.
We are underground conduit nazis when it comes to keeping the conduits clean during the underground installation phase-constant extreme attention to keeping dirt and rocks out of the conduits with a pretty rigid method of installation we’ve developed to insure clean conduits.
Still, it’s always a good idea to pull a rag or two through an underground conduit before pulling in the wire.
We knew we had some struggles keeping some of the conduits clean on this job due to rain and mud during that phase, so we took extra care in cleaning the pipes.
Luckily, all we cleaned out were PVC shavings from cutting the pipes, which is pretty harmless.
Still, it’s nice insurance to know the conduits are clean.
One rock in a conduit can wreck havoc on a job.
Today is actually our wedding anniversary.
Here we are having a fancy smoked chicken and spicy ranch beans dinner, because nothing says “I love you” like toots in bed on a cold night!💨💨😄😄
After dinner and after dark, we went out to tidy up the job site and just check everything.
All looks good and we are ready for tomorrow.
We only have 3 wire pulls to do tomorrow, but they will be a brutal work out, every one of them.
Stay tuned for that, it’ll be impressive.