"HaHaHa" wrote in message
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From: w_tom


Generally, the utility is responsible for overhead electric
line up to (something like) 150 feet from the 'right of way'.
After that, the overhead wire is your property. If wire is
underground, then you may be responsible for everything up to
the pole or up to the 'right of way'. Your electric company
may have different criteria. Talk to them.

Since meter readers are becoming a obsolete job, then many
electric companies are hiring third party companies to perform
the reading. IOW meter readers may not even know anything
about electric company other than how to read a meter and
where to file the papers.

If the pole is on your property and not on a right of way then it's your
problem, not theirs.

I have 2 friends who live on "flagstaff" properties, basically the rear acre
of
what used to be a 2-acre deep lot.

Our utility will feed a home directly from their pole only if that distance is
75' or less. Any further than that you have to either go underground to meet
their pole (and your entire underground service is your responsibility, even
if
it must cross to the other side of the street to meet a pole) or, intall your
own pole on your own property. The utility will install it for you, for a
price, but with the proviso that you are paying only for the labor and
materials and their pole-setting prowess. After they're done the pole is your
property, your responsibility.


This is Turtle.

I have never heard of a Power company not have full responciabilty for any wire
or pole installed on private or public property. This just does not happen in
the real world. If what you say the wire and pole is your resonciability then
you can do this. Call the power company and tell them that the wire and pole is
my responciability and can do as I please and will be re routing the wire to
make a new service drop to my Barn which you will not have to cut the power off
to the lines for i will just throw a steel pole across the wires to blow the
transformer trip fuses and you stay away from here for it is not your
responciability to do any work on these private service lines on my property.
The Sheriff department and the Power company rep. will show up to see what your
doing. You will find out that NO property owner or Electrician is allowed to
climb a public service pole to do anything without the Power company's
permission until the service hits the pecker head or meter pan. Also you will
find out that no body will go up that pole who does not work for or contract to
the Power company.

Have you been up any power company poles lately ?

TURTLE