Power To The Shop

[crokett]

The hard part is done. Trench is in and wire is run. Tomorrow is the panel work on both ends. Now a smart man would have looked at the trencher and realized that the dirt will only clear properly if you trench backwards. He also would have started at the shop and worked back to the septic tank, then started at the house and worked back to the tank.

I am not a smart man so first I started out running it forwards until I realized that the dirt was just filling in the trench I just cut. After I figured that out, I then started between the house and the tank and worked back to the tank, then started at the house and worked back. Of course this left a lot of dirt I had to dig out by hand. I didn't rfigure out I should start at the shop until of course I started at the tank and worked back to the shop, then turned the trencher around to finish the last few feet..... That doesn't include the rocks that the trencher wouldn't clear that I had to get out by hand, or the 18" dia 6" thick one that was sitting 6" down directly beneath the panel at the house.

My neighbor and I split the cost of the trencher. It took me 3+ hours to trench 130ish feet. It took him half that time to trench 150.

[Mr__Bill]

Next time you will know....

Looking good, nice setting for the shop and no one about to complain about the noise.

Did you run a sewer line from the shop to the tank for you slop sink? And water out from the house?


Bill
Always thinking of things for others to do

[just started]

He should chip in extra for the lessons in operation you gave him.

[crokett]

He should chip in extra for the lessons in operation you gave him.

He knew what he was doing already. his comment was 'You shoulda asked me!'.

No water line right now, maybe someday. Real problem is no septic. Tank is uphill from the shop so I would need a pump.

[LCHIEN]

Didja run cable, cat5e (cat 6 maybe) and phone lines out there while you're in the vicinity?

[crokett]

Didja run cable, cat5e (cat 6 maybe) and phone lines out there while you're in the vicinity?

No. Might regret it later but that is what wireless/cordless is for. I don't ever plan to have a computer in the shop and don't want a phone. Can't hear it over the tools and don't want the distraction. Besides we mostly use our cell phones anyway.