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Originally Posted by DakotaHawk
....Neither of these jobs can be done by yourself. Your utility may allow you to dig the trench for your Service, but they have to lay the wire and make electrical connections themselves. On the other hand, the Utility will absolutely not allow you to do any of the work to bury Distribution.
From your description, you're asking to bury Distribution. Contact your Utility and expect to pay pretty dearly to bury that wire!
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When I built my hangar, the utility had to extend a 12 Kv line and add a new transformer near the hangar.
I had to grant them a legal, surveyed easement, but I was able to dig the trench myself (well almost, a neighbor with a backhoe did it).
All the utility did was to send out a "trench inspector" to say that the trench was OK - IIRC it was two feet wide by 4 ft deep. After we removed a rattlesnake that fell in, it passed....
The utility came and laid the cable and installed the new transformer. I had the trench filled in, and that was inspected when the short service trench to the hangar was inspected.
In our case, there was no charge for the cable or transformer since it was under 500 ft. from an existing transformer. We would have been charged for any excess over 500 ft.
Check with your local utility - I was nicely surprised on how easy they were to deal with.
It did cost me a bout with Valley Fever though....
