Grading tips?

[Drycreek]

I got a call from one of my partners the other day. He had no power in the shed he uses as a cabin. Evidently, when I did the clearing, pulling the stumps hit the underground power line to his shed. It was evidently only 6" deep. He found the break so I went over yesterday and patched it. No luck, the breaker still would not turn on. I checked it with a meter and there is still a short somewhere. He is going to get the cable and supplies, and I'll try to pully only last stump and then dig a trench deep enough and put in the new line.

I headed over today to get started. The 35g would not start. Dead battery even though I had it on a trickle charger...or so I thought. It was attached to the battery with alligator clips and there was enough corrasion over time that there wasn't a good contact. I moved them around to get a good contact and it started charging. With that little charger, it will take all day to charge, so I headed home and will continue another time.

Do you think when you dug into the power line it might have tripped the breaker on the transformer ?

 

[yoderjac]

Do you think when you dug into the power line it might have tripped the breaker on the transformer ?

This was just a 110 line run from one of our breaker boxes in the barn to my partners shed. It popped the breaker in the barn, but all our other circuits from the breaker box work fine.

 

[yoderjac]

My buddy, in construction, thought the issue was a loose ground on the starter. He had a hole in his schedule this afternoon, so I met him at the farm. I was a little timid about tipping the cab myself. I'm glad I didn't. The video I watched for tipping the cab was for the enclosed version. As it turns out, for the open cab, there are two extra bolts. I was on the tractor and my buddy was watching the cab tip and was able to quickly see from his vantage point that something else was holding it when I tried to tip it with the bucket and strap. We suspected two other bolts but weren't sure. He loosened them a bit and we were able to get movement, so we removed them. Another reason I'm glad I didn't do it myself is that he was able to engage the safety bar while I tipped the cab the last little bit by hand.

As it turns out, the positive connection to the starter had vibrated loose, not the ground. We cleaned that up, put some dielectric grease on it, and tightened it back up. It started right up!

He headed home. I had planned to bring my SML to the farm and hunt this evening if I had time, but I had shot a doe this morning and was bushed from recovery and processing, so I left the SML at home (details here: Interesting morning hunt). Since I was there and had time, I pulled the large stump and dug the trench for the new wire.