When Contractors Are Good

What is so cool is when the contractors you trust with your money actually pro actively do their jobs even when you're not there to see to it.
The CO-OP staking technician Ted Mosley called me to say the trench from the last pole to the power panel was not deep enough (27 inches instead of the required 36 inches - we hit a very large boulder) and when the CO-OP puts the 40 foot conduit in that trench next Thursday it will have to be covered with concrete one foot thick, and then have the dirt built up with fill to meet code.

To save additional bucks and contractor fuel and time, we agreed that I would back fill all the trenches to code depth using my tractor and fill dirt that I can scrape up from several places near by. The stuff that came out of the trenches is so rocky it's really not suitable to go back in on top of the conduit.

The section of trench directly in line with the double conduit in the picture is too shallow to meet code, even though the trenching crew spent all day long with a jack hammer trying to break through.

I called Frank Sedillo (Price Right Electrical), and put him in touch with Mosley.
They discussed what needed to be done and agreed on a schedule when each would do their part. So the poles and the wire will go in next Thursday, and the concrete will be added on Friday, and I don't even have to be there to ramrod the operation.
Electricity on our place will be MAJOR progress. Almost on par with the well.
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