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To: Bulwyf
You’d be surprised at how many guys can mess up a wire pull.

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...

85 posted on 05/14/2015 8:18:36 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

That would have frustrated me to no end. That would likely even cause the army to come back out of me geez.

I’m often doing the same thing, I plan a run and I don’t leave a lot of wastage, so changing a tray run or a conduit run would be a waste of material, mostly cable or wire.


88 posted on 05/14/2015 9:04:57 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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