Friday, a week ago, the driver that was delivering a load of diesel fuel to our fuel stop came in to tell me that the pumps weren't working. I checked the circuit breakers and both the 240 and 480 volt breakers were kicked out. Had him go ahead and pump the load off of his trailer with his tractor pump just to get him out of the way so I could check things out.

When he was finished I went over and disconnected both circuits at the pumps and threw the breakers back in. The lights dimmed, sparks flew, and both breakers kicked right back out!

Great!

There's a short circuit somewhere in the 260 feet of 3/4 inch conduit buried three feet underground! And part of that run goes under a road that's been widened 10 feet, and part of it's under 12" thick reinforced concrete. That also has three 90 degree elbows in it, so you would never get a fish tape through it to pull new wire through it!

Hmmmmmmm..............

So, in addition to.....

coming in at 4:30 am to heat naphthalene trailers

daily tank cleaning

EPA mandated paperwork

The faxing and the filing

and routine maintenance and housekeeping,

I've got a 210 foot ditch to dig, (thru a parking lot that's as hard as the proverbial you know who's heart) conduit to run, and wire to pull!

YAY!

The old 3/4 inch conduit line is marked in red. We didn't own the property next door 15 years ago, but now we do. So the new line, in green, will be a straight shot to the island, and about 50 feet shorter! I'm also running 2" conduit for the two power circuits and a separate 1" inch line for the computer wire.

Monday morning, the line is drawn.

The initial cuts were made thru the asphalt and concrete with a diamond tipped concrete saw.

Jack hammer came in handy here!

By Wednesday the backhoe was here and progress was being made, with the help of some of the guys from the garage.

That's Mark in the foreground, Jeff, and Dave back there on the backhoe.

Thursday evening, and we're ready to run the conduit and pull some wire!

That's part of the old 3/4 inch conduit with the six 12 gauge wires in it, attatched to the top of that new 2" work box. It's all good from there into the breaker boxes, so we're going to reuse it. At least we can get to it if we ever need to.

Friday evening at 4:30.

Done!

We're back in the fuel bidness again!

And, I'm heading home, because

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May be beer:30 for the next 48 hours, too!