You’d be surprised at how many guys can mess up a wire pull. As I said earlier, you sound like you came up from the ranks, had life experience.
I didn’t notice until you pointed it out that he was a conductor previously.
I don’t know if this was gross negligence or something more sinister, I guess we shall see.
I get frustrated with the posts pointing out he used to be a cashier, as if that indicated some problem. I don’t understand that attitude in the slightest.
The ability to advance and move up is one of the reasons this nation is great. To see people mock and point it out as if a problem is sickening to me.
I need to take a FR break.
Oh, not really, not after a few decades of being the field/construction engineer in addition to the office time.
I also see to many field "adjustments" that the hands didn't deem necessary to notify engineering about the change.
Moving the duct bank over 30 foot doesn't sound like a big deal, and wouldn't have been. But since it was a rush job, and a hard money, I bought the wire pre-cut on individual reels some they could just set up and pull, not handle it twice.
50 foot of spare cable would have been plenty for a 450' run, if they didn't add 60 feet to the run without telling me...
Lack of lube, dragging cable first in the dirt, not bracing the rollers in the tray, not blowing out the conduit, not bracing the conduit before pouring the concrete, after some time, you get to see a lot of ways how to not build things...