Posted by Zachary Hoyt on January 03, 2015 at 12:29:38 from (74.47.59.5):
We have a 10-3 with ground UF cable running from the barn we live in to the old farmhouse, on through it to the sawmill/tractor building and then to the well house. It was put in about 10 years ago to save on meter costs since each meter cost $20 per month even when there was no power to speak of being used. We hired a local fellow who knew about the electrical part of it and I did some of the labor. The first part runs in PVC pipe, buried 4 feet deep since it runs under the main driveway/parking area. The rest beyond the house was buried in sand about 1 foot deep. At the time the sawmill building had not been built. When it went it the wire was cut and spliced so it runs along the first floor ceiling. This morning there was no water so I went to check if the pipes in the house basement had frozen as they do occasionally. When I got to the house there was no power, the breaker at the start of the whole line had tripped. I flipped it back on and it stayed on. When I went to the house it now had power but the sawmill building still did not. There was no breaker between them, so I figured the wire must have broken in the ground. I went to town and got a roll of wire and ran it temporarily overhead from the house to the sawmill building and now everything is fine. I am wondering what could have caused the wire to break in the middle of the night. All conductors were dead and I presume they were actually broken in two. The temperatures were in the teens. No traffic had driven over the line since the 26th of December other than a Massey 35 blowing snow yesterday morning. I will dig it up in the spring and find out but in the meantime I am wondering if anyone has seen this and what the cause may have been. Zach
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