Power Pole Meter & Box Install - Arched Cabin Build #121 (2023)

Introduction

After we do this we just have to install the water line, and then it's time to put the beams up, and start getting it all ready to frame the house!

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Yay, our septic's done, we are making brackets to hang our meter box.

Damn I'm.

Sure my curve allowance is excessive well since these are going to be all symmetrical and junk, where do you see curve allowance on here? The kerf (I've been saying it wrong).

Allowance is just how wide the blade is.

Okay, because you add a little bit because you'll lose some of the blade.

It just becomes chips there's our center.

These will go there.

So just weld them there.

Yep, okay.

My goal is to get good enough at welding that mike lets me scrub in when it's time to do the beams.

I better hurry because that's coming up soon.

This is the meter box.

Uh, where are the other holes? Uh, uh, oh, yeah, they're under things.

You know, I thought of that circuit breaker installation it's, probably way different from any other circuit breaker.

Doesn't even tell you how to jam the wire into the screw, oh, [, __, ], we're hopeless.

So this is the automatic center punch.

I had a better one.

This one hits a little light, but crackheads needed my better one more than I did.

So here we are take that knockouts.

I think I'd probably just hang the brackets just get it.

All screwed down stuff it up on the pole.

Okay.

And yesterday we made the golden brackets.

Oh, your face is up there zooming on the pp region, ready for my close-up, oh [.

__ ].

There are knockouts down there.

What do you know, *long, Napolean, Dynamite, sigh*, the golden bracket.

People are gonna get soooooo sick of me.

All this haze that you're seeing is smoke from wildfires in utah and colorado.

I saw photos on instagram yesterday, people with ash that had rained down on their cars and we're starting to get a little bit of that.

Here today is labor day as you can see, our Aspens are changing winter is coming.

They want their markings visible, probably, yeah, it's, almost like I measured that [ __ ].

Mike made my anxious, little heart, happy and strapped that ladder to the pole.

Thank you.

You okay? OW.

Yeah, I didn't have a hold of it at all when it dropped.

So my stupidity, and that put an end to our day, mike did not have a hold of the ladder.

And it smacked him it's the day after labor day, my dogs are going crazy, we're on walkies say, hi girls, say, hi, poopy, they're so excited, Much, borking, happening., All.

The borks! So, many borks!.

The snow is gone.

So it's time to work on our power again, mike bought this chop saw.

This thing is freaking amazing.

This is the weather head Smeared, some gunk on it's, excessive and probably needless man.

What is that like a thousand threads per quarter inch and that's? What connects it to the top of the meter box correct?? If you are doing your own power pole, I'm going to tell you a couple of things that we've learned from doing ours.

And that is the power company that you're working with.

They are going to have their own specific set of guidelines and we're trying to follow their guidelines.

But their guidelines have been a little skewed because on the drawing, it does say some information and the information that they've told us has been different.

So I called and verified, and she said, the only thing that we have to worry about is that the weatherhead is 12 inches from the top of the pole, correct? And then the meter box itself is no more than five feet to the center of where the meter will be I'm gonna focus on that.

And if they ding us on it, I will refer back to that phone call.

And then we will set them on fire.

No, then we will just have a conversation and adjust.

I left this real time.

So you can see just how amazing this chop saw is, it was expensive, but we're gonna cut enough metal that it was kind of worth it it's, not even hot, very little, really nothing to clean up.

I might drag a screwdriver around the inside of it.

So what are the three strands for two hots in a neutral? All right? So two legs of 110 these are hot and hot.

And this is the neutral because it's got the stripe.

Yep, okay.

And these are 110 110, yeah.

And that makes 220 service.

Goodness man that pipe wrench is kind of the [ __ ] for this.

Yeah, pro tip!.

Minimum is 30.

Oh, yeah, we have more than 30 for sure now I have to consider where the offset is and...

I don't know if it matters a whole lot, I guess we'll stuff it up as close to the pole as possible.

Then this is closer to the back than this is but it's centered this way by putting this to the back of the meter box right up close to the pole.

Whereas if it were the other way, it'd be far away from the pole, there would be damn near a finger width of gap there.

Okay.

I understand yep, that's, all that is., MikeGyver, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Good place for it.

Wow.

Did you really just do that? Probably yeah, that's everything's.

Fine, oh anywho.

Yeah.

I figure it should be weather.

Tight-Ish wonder if I put some junk on these, hmm, yeah, something like that.

I guess that's its happy place.

Yeah, something like that tape was largely an effort and futility, but that's how we roll mike had an idea.

He's gonna go get an eye bolt and some rope and we're gonna hoist it up if you're enjoying our videos, give us a thumbs up and don't, forget to hit subscribe exactly not high enough.

Oh no.

Oh just exactly long enough to do the job.

Yeah, nice work.

Guys, it's, nice to have zero wiggle room when you're up a floppy pole.

Yeah, something like that.

Yeah, not too.

Shabby.

Finally, yay, bloody hell.

That's, probably, uh, yeah, about there ooh, I'm gonna leave that as a handle that will maybe make this stripping bullsh- here.

It would figure that in a video about power.

I kill two batteries, we'll have to come back and do torque spec.

And we have to do the brackets.

Mike is installing a gfi outlet in a weatherproof box.

So that we can have power down there as soon as possible.

Well, it's sub optimal door, you're gonna [ __ ] teeth.

All right enough of this horse [, __, ], Well, I can at least put the red wire where it should be a white wire get that out of the way, hey, man, we're having fun right? Oh, geez.

I forgot to bring the instructions for breaker installation, see.

So I need the instructions follow us on youtube.

Yeah, I'll get right on that.

So I can stay abreast of the latest developments in outlet.

Technology.

Black is hot green is ground.

Yeah.

And the red should be white I'll label it, or if I have some 10 gauge laying around I'll, replace it.

And the red is neutral, yes, it's.

Not as super complicated as many would have you believe? Well anyway, here's our grounding bus.

You want to be good and snug.

You don't want arcing happening inside your stuff.

Do you leave yourself a little bit of wiggle room in case you want to like snip off that little bit and strip a little more off? Yeah, this is all that's in it.

Yeah.

So you can leave a little bit extra jam it in there, it's, no, big deal.

If you were gonna run another device like at the bottom of the box, you're gonna have wires come out there.

You can attach them to these okay and that'll feed other stuff.

Oh, [, __ ] that has to be bonded it's.

A metal box.

What does that mean? I've heard that phrase before normally it would be a bare wire.

But today it's going to be a green insulated wire pretty much.

You have to put a jumper from the ground wire that's under this terminal to the box that way if something bad happens, something, you know wire stuck out here and touched the box or something it could energize that box.

So by bonding that to the ground, if that were to happen, it would have a path, and it would probably kick out the ground fault on this.

But yeah, that way if that happens, you don't get lit up by the damn box.

Okay, I'm.

Just not sure I entirely understand.

Does it just go into the ground wire is that what the wire is for? Yeah, okay.

Yeah.

Then the ground becomes the circuit path.

Okay, that's.

That's.

The component I was missing out in there-ish.

This is why we're called the lazy a-hole ranch, *much, chuckling* load terminals under this label are for feeding additional receptacles.

Meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, k.

So in a nutshell, the long one's, hot, nope, the short one's hot that one's neutral and that one's ground and usually it's kind of color coded.

The silver will be the neutral, the brass or gold or whatever will be the hot (green is ground).

It probably tells you, yeah, hot wire white wire.

Okay.

So small is hot.

I've had it backwards.

The whole time small is hot.

Small is hot.

Small is hot.

Oh, so they have a gauge on there, telling you how long to strip your wires for yeah, most of them do now they're nice like that that's really neat.

Wow.

We have a little breaker installed.

I am Xenophobe.

Warrior.

Princess.

Lolz is this a ground rod in my hand or am I happy to see ya? I think if we poke it in right there, we can get away with it.

Oh, yeah, that won't be anything.

Damn.

How deep did they bore? Ah, to there while mike's hammering away I just want to thank you guys for watching they'll, probably want that stapled off.

You just have to make the red wire white get a staple for this guy.

And then I'll call the inspection in.

This portion is done.

We can check it off the list.

You did say that you still had to order the electric wire, correct.

And you wanted to put that in the conduit first it's easier.

So let's do that trench later because we don't need power down there until we're almost so we're starting to work on the inside let's, do the water trench next and let's take care of that.

Okay, so I guess let's.

Not worry about propane or the rest of the electrical right now and let's just focus on water, and that that's.

The only other thing we have to do before we start with the beams and stuff right? Yeah, I believe so let's just do that as much as I like to get all the trenches dug and all the conduit buried.

If it doesn't really make sense to do it.

Now, then why do it now? Oh, and we have to do the torque specs on that after it gets inspected.

We call the power company and then they'll come out and hook it up.

We are this close to having power, which will that'll help because we've been using a generator.

So I found the white electrical tape.

We needed I'm going to put it on the wire now.

So you have to rivet it to the front cool, MikeGyver, ladies and gentlemen, the man the myth.

The legend MikeGyver likes his rtv, the sides of this box are somewhat less than weatherproof.

But do you find this video very riveting, ladies and gentlemen, leave a comment below so brass tag check, yay, getting there! now get out there and do the thing I know you can.

Thanks guys.