"RoyJ" wrote in message
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Well, the guys doing the line repair to the 8kv line in the last storm
certainly didn't ground that line. They repaired the line by removing
the tree that was on it, flipped in a new fuse and POW! right in the
lineman's face. He dryly observed that there was probably another tree
on the line that they should have checked for.

While YOU may do things correctly, I always worry about someone else
that comes along and either buys the property or does it in your
absence. The two that come along fairly regularly on this NG are hooking
up gensets and running welder ciruits. Hooking up gensets should be
intuitive to a "helper" that your wife got to come over when you were on
a trip (or whatever). Welding circuits can be deliberately overbreakered
(as allowed by the NEC) but what happens when you sell the house, get
infirm, or whatever. The NEXT person uses the circuit for something else.


Can't speak for Mr. Foreman, but when I move, the generator goes with me.
Along with the switch box and the short wiring run. If I tell you that
there's never going to be a lineman zapped from my place, then there won't
be. Get over it.