19-03-2014, 09:25 AM
"need to replace 2 poles and 180m of line" .......... OK, fair enough, with a pole digger/erector, 3 hours for the two poles max. To restring 180m of line and reconnect, 4 or 5 hours."
It's not always that simple Colin, our local power line and poles were replaced here a year or so ago, access to some of the poles was difficult, a lot of poles are on private land and the access width for a digger isn't always digger friendly, when they finally got through to the line corridor there were numerous objects in the way, shrubs, fallen trees, general farm rubbish, scrap iron and stuff etc, they had to clear all that first before scraping the corridor for proper access.
Then there might be a problem with digging the post hole, in our case the whole line had to be elevated higher than the original, new codes of practice/regs or something like that, that means longer poles, longer poles means deeper holes which is no problem until they hit bedrock, which means extra time involved.
The linesmen on our job weren't drinking tea all day, they have to answer to there section leader and so on, the linesmen we had were Malaysian/Philipino's etc, they worked like the clappers I have to say.
Lawrence.
It's not always that simple Colin, our local power line and poles were replaced here a year or so ago, access to some of the poles was difficult, a lot of poles are on private land and the access width for a digger isn't always digger friendly, when they finally got through to the line corridor there were numerous objects in the way, shrubs, fallen trees, general farm rubbish, scrap iron and stuff etc, they had to clear all that first before scraping the corridor for proper access.
Then there might be a problem with digging the post hole, in our case the whole line had to be elevated higher than the original, new codes of practice/regs or something like that, that means longer poles, longer poles means deeper holes which is no problem until they hit bedrock, which means extra time involved.
The linesmen on our job weren't drinking tea all day, they have to answer to there section leader and so on, the linesmen we had were Malaysian/Philipino's etc, they worked like the clappers I have to say.
Lawrence.
