Last weekend (yes the May long weekend) I had the electrician and the excavator working to install the underground cable. The electrician wanted to work on the weekend and it was good to do the work when the framing crew weren't around.
We installed the power pole 30 m from the road. The remaining 70 m was an underground cable.
Since the distance between the pole and the cabin is more than 200 ft we had to upsize the cable by two gauges. Here's the 70 m coil.
We had to dig a big trench (yes, that was the driveway) then I prepped the trench with sand for the cable and a pvc pipe for Telus/Shaw cables. We laid the cable and tubes then had to cover them by hand before we could refill the trench with the excavator.
It was a long day but the trench was filled and the pole was up (and straight) after 8.5 hrs. The excavator returned the next day for two hours of clean-up and to re-smooth the driveway.
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