As an electrician, you’re completely right in this is exactly how we prep for wire pulls. String and vacuum. Never tried vacuuming mule tape directly but cool to know it’s possible. Also side note: mule tape has measurement markings printed the entire length. So you didn’t have to pull the mule tape out to measure. Simple subtract the number at the end to where your mark was. But 10/10

Hey Matt. If you feel the electric company overcharged, you can open up a claim with the Pennsylvania Utility Commission. They are the agency put in place to protect the consumers from predatory practices of the utilities. I've had to open claims against National fuel a couple times for doing estimated final readings when tenants moved out. One time even when the gas was shut off they tried to stick me with a $300 bill. Anyways, it's free and if they charged for work that you already accomplished on your own as part of the job it may well be worth it.

My grandmother recalled when electricity was brought to their farm in Chemung, NY in the Southern Tier. The electric company ran a free line on a few poles to the house but only if they bought two appliances. The got one electric light and a toaster. Later, small fractional horsepower electric motors revolutionized the farm in many ways. It was a huge important change.

I had a similar experience with the power company. They wanted 80K to pull a few poles to my remote house. I told them to f*** off and I installed solar. Best decision I ever made.

I was a tradesman welding in oil and gas industry, for locals and farmers. It does not matter what I did or where I did it I cleaned up after and did not leave a thing behind and for 52000.00 there should not be a speck left behind. Great job Matt and congrats on an ever expanding work space. I appreciate your ethic and the integrity of your channel! All the best in the season up and coming!

You should make a shadow box to hang on shop wall with power company's needle nose pliers in it with an engraved brass plate that has date you got power and maybe "worlds most expensive pliers" with their $52,000 cost. I am sure it would give anyone seeing it a chuckle.....and it could be seen in your videos when filming in shop. Great channel!

In the 80s, someone at work was selling shirts that said, "VEPCO has Virginia by the bulbs". It wasn't long before the company banned wearing those to work.

Mr. Creek, you are living the dream. I’m an equipment operator turned foreman in the gold mining industry in rural Nevada. Seeing all this vintage equipment saved and used warms my heart, especially the old shovels and dozers. I think that’s 52K well spent to be able to continue work on what is shaping up to be an incredible property.

I am SO glad I decided to go totally off-grid on our property. We were looking at an 800' to 1000' run of buried line from the closest pole to our home site on our 30 acre property. The cost for that would have been around 15K not including any other items to make the actual connection to the house. We went with solar (and are looking at micro-hydro for 24/7 power generation from our creek) which came in at around 18K so far. We can generate far more power than we can use or store during most of the year, and in the winters here, we supplement the lack of sunshine with a propane generator to charge our battery array. At present, we can get 2 to 3 days worth of power from our batteries for snowy, rainy or cloudy days. We'll be adding some more solar panels and a few more batteries to the system and if we add the micro hydro, we can generate 1 to 1.5 kw/hr 24/7 to keep our batteries topped off even during the longest periods of no sun. And no power bills.

I will be watching this on my television. Just wanted to put in a comment and say that $52,000 is a lot to pay. Especially given that you did the majority of the work preparing the trench.

30:35 When you said 'sketchy' earlier. I didn't realized the plug you had on there. LOL.

Just for comparison, I installed an underground feed 14 years ago from the highway to a location 3900 feet away on our farm. This is in Ontario so requirements are quite different from that in your location in the US. The primary wire was basically a large coax cable about 1 1/4" in diameter and good for 16000 volts if my memory is correct. Even though I am an electrician myself I hired a contractor to help due to the size of the job. An excavator was used to dig a 24" trench up to 5' deep. A stone slinger layed 6" of sand in the trench as well as on top of the cable after installation. The only conduit used was at the pole to get into the trench and at the other end where the cable entered the concrete transformer base. The transformer base also had a ground field installed around the perimeter as well as the installation of the central metering base. The total cost was just over $42,000, $20,000 of which was for the aluminum primary coax cable. For the pad mount transformer, I only had to pay the difference between the cost of a pole mount and a pad mount. This gives me enough for approximately 700 amps at 240 volts. I know that here have been lots of increases in costs of just about everything in the past couple of years so no idea how much this would cost today.

There's no denying it. Power company will always get theirs!

I'm a real believer in paying a little extra to buy quality tools. However, I think $52,000 is a little much for a small pair of needle nose pliers! 🤣 Congratulations on getting it done.

install the primary outside your property , and pull it onto your property yourself. Thats what we did on a long pull too our lake to supply water too a hog barn. They dont have too have the primary at your house...

We dinged a poorly placed meter in our drive way a bit back, and they gladly sent 2 trucks and 3 guys to replace the meter housing (some light tin metal that I could have bent back, zero damage to the meter or wiring) and swap the meter over in 10 minutes, proceed to sit in the driveway for another 20 or 30, then leave and bill us for 1200 dollars. Traditional work crew too, 1 guy dug the hole and did the work while the others talked about something else entirely.

As a retired IBEW Electrical worker I am surprised that they showed such disrespect to you and your property. I'm sorry sir we were trained how to act in public.I don't know if these people were union people or not but everyone knows you don't leave a mess when you leave a job. Glad to see that you finally got power. Thank you for sharing your videos with us.Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New year.

I would suggest that you build a really solid steel frame around the transformer and junction boxes. Protects them from falling trees and somebody backing into them.hust make sure you make the frame in front of the doors removable for access. 😊

I don't know if this would work for you legally or not, but one solution is to "land" all the public utilities at your property border. Build a concrete building / "pump house" / whatever right at the property edge. Have them step it down to 120/240 200a or 120/208 if you need 3 phase. Put some pumps n shit in there. Then when they turn the power on, use a PRIVATE step up transformer to get your 7200 or whatever, and then a step down at your house and barns.

Costs I’m seeing for 15kv underground is around 25/foot, I wouldn’t be surprised if you were only charged for this cable and everything else was socialized. There’s a world of difference between your 120 volt wire and a primary underground conductor.

52k is a bit absurd but as a lineman there is a bit more that goes into the process. Factor in the cost of the primary cable (we use 2/0 aluminum primary cable for this type of service), medium voltage elbow on transformer side (possibly additional elbows in junction boxes. Not sure of that style junction), medium voltage termination on pole side plus possibly a cutout and other hardware to run cable up pole and connect to existing infrastructure. Again 52k is a lot but having the equipment and manpower to come out and energize the service isn’t cheap and the power company is obviously making a fair bit as well. Primary cable is also a bit more involved to terminate than your regular 600v or 1000v secondary cable.

You have a good show, and a person can learn from your experiences-even if they have no Diesels in their garage Thumb up

You did a good thing to get this done now! Your shop looks awesome and love all of the older "vintage" equipment you have. Great video and thanks for putting that together for us to watch.

As a retired old electrician, I can say that the power companies around here usually pro-rate based on expected future KWh usage. I am a bit shocked by the 52,000 when you have a semi-commercial shop and a residence both going in. But when you live out in beautiful countryside instead of suburban hell, that happens. Congrats on having it done. Glad you found out about the vacuum trick, we always used that when it was available. Works a treat.

Thanks! Hope this'll help with some material costs! Good to see it's has been working for you. Still waiting for an update on the overhead crane. Scott from California

Matt, I love your video, and you have a great property and shop. In terms of cost, it cost me 18k to put in direct burial cable, 8 years ago in Colorado, including the setting of the transformer. $18 per foot. It was hell digging in the rock, and conduit just doesn't cut it here. As a plus, I received $3.5k back when the adjacent neighbor ran power to his place. Given the cost of things today vs 2015, and the price of both labor and wire, while I understand your frustration, all things considered I say at $23 a foot, even with your work, that you got a pretty good deal. If anything goes bad, the power company is on the hook to fix the cable and everything else associated with the installation for life. All in all, your project looks great! And you're blessed. Merry Christmas

The power company charges a lot of money but those guys do amazing work. Ten years ago a bad storm hit the town i lived in and it looked like a bomb went off. The power company swooped in with a bunch of different crews from all over the state (WI) and they had us up and running within a day and a half. I thought we were going to be without power for weeks. We had whole blocks of power lines down in the middle of the street and trees everywhere. They did amazing work and they were even nice about it.

An electrifying episode! Glad you are all connected up, but for $52k you would have hoped they would clear up properly after themselves.

Matt, my husband introduced me to your videos and I gotta say, you're my favorite channel from his selections. For some reason, I am never bored with what you do or teach me about your love of mechanical stuff. You've got to be the hardest working KZfaqr I know. You're a genuine hard-working nice guy. Hey, everyone, let's get Matt to a million subscribers for Christmas starting with me. Hey, fellas out there watching Matt, get your wives and girlfriends to add him on too! Thanks, Matt!

I work the telco side, and we pull U/G cables via same method. We jet thru or on shorter runs, rod/mandrel thru, a pull string/mule tape. Then use it to pull through our cables. In some districts they have a jetting machine to directly jet thru fiber cables.

It would have been smart to include a transfer switch to facilitate use of a generator during power outage. You make a pretty good case that the job was costly.

Power Co tried to charge my folks $120k for running 100mtr inside property to house. Turns out they had to upgrade street lines and tried to add that to the bill. When that was rejected they said how about $60k for the 100mtr trench. That was rejected & my folks managed with a generator for a few yrs. Eventually they got the trench in & mains power but whenever there was a storm & branches cut the lines it would take 1-3 days to be fixed being a rural sector. Last yr my folks went Solar with battery so if the power goes they don't lose perishables.

I live in Maine and I did everything from the excavation to installing the line they required to my shop which was 1080'. I bought all the wire and installed so we didn't need to use CMP. After paying all the materials not including my time the electricians to do the meter hook up and all the fees associated I was at a little over $21,000. Your setup was twice the distance and they pulled the power cable and supplied I actually think you got a good deal other then its stupid expensive for what it is. The only reason we did ours was the waiting list was much longer then yours due to Covid. With that having power is worth the pain to the pocket in my opinion.

Saw on another Y.T. channel, they made a small building near the pole by road, had power company set transformer near that and saved a ton of money. Then had a licensed electrician run wire to main building

Years ago I worked on generators. A customer I went to do a start up on a 400Kw generator had your same problem. They wanted well over $2000,000 to bring him 3ph. He had 1ph near the site. It was a rock quarry. He did the math and figured out he could buy a generator, use the single phase for basic power and run the block heater on the generator. Between the fuel cost and price of the generator it'd take him 4 years to break even, after that he was saving money.

Thats CRAZY expensive! Congrats on the barn build. This old operator really appreciates you saving all the old machines! Thanks Matt!

Matt ,you can claim a credit on your taxs for energy efficiency improvements made to your home and property using form 5695 and it equals 30 percent of certain qualified expenses. Hope this helps lower price it cost you for the shocking amount it cost to get power. Keep up the good videos.

I just watched this video and have to say what a COOL way to run string through conduit!!! I really enjoy your show and watching you fix old machines that most people would give up on. This was a Great video it was like I was right there with you!! Keep up the Great Work!!!

You could have built your own power system with solar, wind, and a backup generator for a 1/4 the price and we would have LOVED to watch!

Glad to see you've got power Matt, with the kind of activities that you are likely to have around the farm, I would suggest maybe putting up some reinforced concrete bollards around the junction boxes before you get too carried away with the landscaping. One swipe with an excavator or a trailer backing into them would tear one up pretty bad.

Apparently I have been waiting three months to see how you put the draw rope into that ducting. It was worth the wait. Well done Matt. I just need to see the wood burner installed now. Keep up the good work.

At my farm there's a power pole that has the HV feed from the line coming into it underground. The feed runs up the pole, then back down the pole to a transformer that sits at the base of the pole. There is no need for that pole, the HV feed could go right into the transformer. But to have the power company do that would have been over $10K in 1980's dollars. Doesn't bother me any, the pole isn't in the way. (The reason the pole is there is that the HV lines used to be above-ground and there was a transformer at the top of the pole).

Wow, what they charged was insane. That's over 5 times more than we paid to have our electric buried a little over a quarter of a mile into the timber to the house, barns and grain bins and we didn't do any of it ourselves, but we have electrical co-ops in rural areas. If they profit we get the dividends which are generally small if anything at all because most of the "profits" are used to upgrade services and repair storm damage or set aside for that. It works and has been so much nicer than having some public utility with outside investors. Many of our phone/internet companies work the same for those of us who live rurally or in small townships.

As a Lineman, I know what it takes to install a transformer. First off, the underground primary cable that feeds the transformer is $10 per foot. At 2,200 feet, that's $22,000 in just cable. The price of the padmount transformer they set is $12,000 plus all of the associated electrical components to make it work is at least another $5,000. Then there's the other end of the project. My guess is the Utility company set a new pole to energize your transformer from. That's probably another $5,000. I think you got a deal at only $52,000.

Matt the Chinese finger clamp are very handy in more cases than you can imagine, but big ones are even better for pulling hydraulic hoses around a dozer or other equipment, so hang on to them ,just pull old hose out as you pull new hose into connect it .

Little tip for anyone doing this alone: do not use a standard household vacuum, make sure you use a wet/dry vac as shown in this video. Why? In a household dry-only vacuum, the air vacuumed in is the same air used to cool the motor. So if the bag makes its way into the vacuum and blocks the airflow (as we clearly heard happen here, as the motor sound changes), it would block the cooling and the motor could overheat before you make it back to turn it off. Wet/dry vacs, on the other hand, have a totally separate airflow path for motor cooling, since the vacuum airflow can be mixed with water and inconsistent. So a wet/dry vac can operate with its vacuum inlet blocked indefinitely, since the motor will continue to be cooled.

What a lot of people don't understand with that initial cost is.... once the power company energizes the cable (in our area) is they take ownership of all of the infrastructure. Pipes, boxes, transformer box, transformer, and cable, and connections... FOREVER.. trans former goes bad, you get a new one, wire burns up, you get new wire, box collapses they dig and set new one... but what you get within your property is safe reliable power from wildlife and trees.. because it buried. How many feet of pipe? I think the cable is about 8.00 a foot..

It's great to have a monopoly when it comes to pricing things out! It's highway robbery of the worst kind.

I am sorry for all the problems you have had to endure with the power company. I wish you the very best!

The one box right beside the road, for safeties sake I think you should put in a couple of hefty barrier poles on each side of the box just to mark them clearly (especially in snow) and to keep any slightly off the road vehicle from tearing through that and forcing you back onto your generators.

Utilities will usually charge one a high price for electric infrastructure if one is the first and only customer utilizing the infrastructure. When more customers start utilizing the infrastructure, the initial customer usually gets a refund on the initial cost of the primary power infrastructure. The utility does this to recoup their cost of putting in the primary power infrastructure and normally is in accordance with the public utility commission having jurisdiction of the area. The utility recoups the cost of putting in the primary infrastructure from the energy used by the customers. Depending on the power consumption by the customer the utility may shoulder the entire cost or charge the customer for the initial primary power installation. The utility has to recoup their cost in accordance with guidelines of the public utility commission.

I had the Elec service buried to my house. $6 grand. You hit the nail on the head. A licensed Elec had to do the job per elec co. I was not allowed to.

Great episode again. Once the wallet recovers a bit, you could avoid a lot of last minute scramble having your electrician buddy help you put in a transfer switch and hookup box on the side of the barn to hook in the generator when the utility fails you. Probably not a big deal now but a huge convenience once it’s also backing up the house.

I checked on a run like that at my place in south Texas for overhead and it was about $40,000, but that was 5 years ago. The power company has a cost estimator on their website so I just calculated based on 2,600 feet and today's cost is $66,434 for overhead and $111,800 for underground. The good news, if any, is that these costs are all inclusive. Looks like you did OK.

For those of you who dont' know, underground lines are about 10x as expensive as pole mounted lines.

Glad to see you finally got your Electric Meter and Electricity in the Shop Matt 32:00 @Diesel Creek

Shit, for $52k I could have set you up with an off grid solar setup that would power that shop 24/7. I think my last large one was ~$35k including a shipping container and 100kw backup genset (2 stroke detroit!). Produced ~40kwh/day in the summer and 20kwh/day in the winter. Plus had 40kwh of battery storage. It provided 240V split phase and easily started larger loads like big motors and even ran a 240V welder just fine. Hell, I usually did my laundry at night, off a 240V well pump, full size washer and full size electric dryer - without the genset.

I tried pricing 15Kv primary wire and it's about $15 per foot. I'm guessing the single phase transformer was $5,000, and the new pole was probably 5,000. So about $43,000 in materials and the rest was labor and profit. I'm happy you finally have power. I've been thinking you'd want 3 phase power but i can't imagine what they would have charged you to run that.

what you could do is have the power company meter close to the boundary of your land, then everything after that you could run your own cable. BUT if they are running HV to you, your cable after the transformer/meter (LV) would have to be a lot larger. might not save anything!?

I think -this- episode finally makes Matt's shop workable. Everything else is just sorta extra.... but now he finally has a real working shop. Congrats Matt!

The power companies are like the phone companies used to be when there was only one provider for each area. My uncle lived on the border of a phone company service area. The neighbors house, that was within 200 feet of his house was a long distance phone call away. As Lily Tomlin used to say as Earnistine the telephone operator on Laugh in. "We don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone company."

15:00 I will never not be impressed at the ability to use excavators and such as precision equipment! Keep up the awesome work Matt!

For what it's worth, the power company won't let anyone else do that work because that's part of their network. Not only does it mean it's their ongoing responsibility, but any faults or issues in the line potentially affect other equipment and customers.

That meter means money, lots of it and it all belongs to the power company. Power companies must be all the same around the world as in Australia they charge an arm and a leg plus one kidney to connect the power to your premises in rural areas. I knew one guy who was quoted $52000 to connect the power to his rural property and there was only pole involved. No underground. He went full solar with batteries and a back up generator and with the government subsidy the system cost him nothing.

Matt that’s awesome, well done. Please don’t ever stop being a one man band. That’s what makes this channel so authentic. Please consider chucking some bollards infront of the transformer so you done back over it with a machine

I love how you do all the work and still have to pay 52k to get it connected!

when you had the generator hooked up to the entrance feed my first though was might be a worthwhile idea to add a manual transfer switch to the building with a plug so if power goes out you can just hook generator up with little work and be back online in a jiffy.

As a former landscaper, I like wild grasses to hide transformers and other telecom boxes. I really like the Karl Foerster feather reed grass. It gets big and fluffy to hide boxes, no thorns or anything if you need to get inside, you just hack them off around four inches in late winter/early spring with a pair of hedge shears, and they come back every year. Two on each side of those boxes will be plenty after they get established for a couple years and really fluff up. I would recommend getting a size 3 or 5(that's just how many gallons the pot is) from your local nursery. These are healthy, larger plants that are much more durable for transplant. The only kicker is that they need water almost every day for the first few weeks when you plant them. If it's raining a bunch, no problem. But if it's hot and dry, you need to go out and soak them every day(ideally in the morning, near sunrise).

It always blows my mind when there’s enforcement of extortion rules like this situation. Power companies, gas companies and health departments that have complete control of their perspective trades. They have rules to follow but they are essentially a monopoly with law enforcement behind their monopolies

It was nice of your neighbor to work with you so well.

I did a quick calculation. I work for an electrical company in Germany and can tell you that 52000 isn't really much for 2200ft (700m)! Without knowing any further details (cross-section of the cables, transformer power), I can say that 700m of copper cable in a 10kv version 3x35qmm, i.e. 2200ft AWG 2, costs around €45 per meter for us. So $49 is $15 per foot. That's $33,000 just for the cable without laying! The transformer costs probably $7500 and the 3 bases cost $250 each. We're at a total of $41,250 without anyone collecting, clamping, checking or certifying anything. I think it's completely fair!

Love your attitude , always upbeat and positive no matter what .

When you got the bill for the power did it come in the form of little bits of letters cut out from various magazines ? I can't imagine how much they would have charged if they'd done EVERYTHING themselves.

Matt, I'm a retired union high voltage test technician from Upstate New York. Before I was in that I was in my family power line construction business for 28 years. I know a little about this type of work. I've estimated it, and I've installed it. I really enjoy your channel but I have to give you some old man advice for a moment. That high voltage cable is expensive. The parts, labor and you know the equipment to install is expensive. Adding it all up, and not knowing what type of cable you had installed, copper or aluminum, their price was not that bad. So please, give those guys a little professional credit. They are not out to rip off the people that they see every day. Thanks Matt 🤝🤝🤝👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Put some one yard blocks around the transformer so it doesn't get hit.

While working for a VA power company - some homeowners go cheap on installations then 3 to 40 years later finding out the landowner has to reinstall the powerlines - plus adding electricity improves the land value more than the $52K -

I know the feeling, I didn't have to go nearly as far but the satisfaction of finally having power in my workshop and the appreciation I have for it every time I go down there and just use a power outlet, or turn on the lights is simply unbeatable, especially since I did all the prep work, digging, conduits etc, and pulled the cables ready for the electrician to terminate and tie in. Satisfaction to the max :)

For 52k you probably may set your own solar farm plus generator as a backup...

Another huge accomplishment. It seems like yesterday you were prepping for the first shipping container. It's a lot of money but what else can you do? It's not going to get any cheaper. Congratulations! I'm looking forward to seeing a wood boiler install in the future.

I adore watching a person that KNOWS how to dance with an excavator or backhoe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OOOH it is lovely to see!

Very different from what I remember working for my father. We would either put the wire in the conduit, then buried it, or put the draw wire in instead depending on circumstances. Mind you he did electrical contracting after working full time for the power company for our local area, so they knew that he was qualified to do the work properly and safely, and he had more licences and permits than he really needed. I did a lot digging and putting will he did the skilled work and supervised me. This gave me all the encouragement I needed to study. Trade work is physically difficult and mentally demanding to do properly and often uncomfortable and dirty, but or all that it tends to pay well. The new tools they now have make things a lot better.

Another step in the right direction. The price to do the power is never cheap. In New Hampshire here at my son's house I did a power service upgrade from 150.amp service to a 200 amp service this spring. I dug the 225' trench and laid all the 3 inch pvc and 1 inch pvc with my son. Public Service had us pull the strings as well and install slip joints at the meter box. There was no cost for the wire underground because when, they are upgrading the power it's free, so that was a huge savings. Your progress on your shop and land is amazing, keep up the good work. Happy Holidays.

Mule tape might be the best thing ever made very little stretch super strong and easy to use.

As a bonus, you can use that cable puller as a hanger for wire running up to you rafters

Matt now that the umbilical cord has been attached to the power grid, the next big surprise is the monthly utility bill gets delivered to you. Also, during the recording of this project, I noticed a view of what looks like the trolley crane on the side of the driveway. I guess the next thing to buy is the 12" "I" beams for the crane.

Hi Matt! Been watching your videos for years now, always fun watching you tear into all these heavy projects on your own! Can’t describe the sense of inspiration you give to work through a tough obstacle! Just wanted to maybe give you a few tips on installing basements and terminating in meter bases in the future. I am an electric lineman in Michigan so we do this work all the time. When burying your basements we typically don’t burry them flush against the ground because they will tend to settle into the ground over time. I’ll leave roughy 8-10 inches or so exposed out of the ground to set the transformers and switch cabinets (which is what is by your gate) on for settling and also it gives you more room for the primary and secondary wires to bend around and more room for us to work with them easily to terminate as well as have extra wire for when the frost starts to pull on the wire it won’t pull the bushings out of the transformer. This also applies to your meter base. I always make a decent bend on our wires so there’s a few inches of wire to play with for frost. Doesn’t have to be much but a little snake bend can make all the difference as opposed to just running straight up like that. Been to many homes over the years where it’s pulled the meter base right off the home or barn and everything has to be redone. Just some little tips and tricks for you for next time if you ever have to do it again in the future!

Please remember that the power company personnel we come in contact with with are not the extortionists, the are just folks making a living

It ain't just power that they rake you over the coals for. I almost bought a property that had zero internet service. No cable, no fiber, nothing. I could get DSL, but it was SLOW SLOW. The local ISP had service 1/4 mile up the road. They wanted $80,000 to run service to that property. This wasn't buried cable, but above ground on the poles. $80k. This was to a neighborhood, mind you. So they could have capitalized on that. No thanks.

Interesting that in the US you have to pay for it. Where I live (Italy) the electrical wiring and components, such as transformers, switches, fuses, etc till the energy meter is owned by the power distribution company (that is not the company that sells you the energy, by the way), they are responsible of installing and maintaining it and you are not allowed to touch it (everything has anti tampering seals), the only expense is the base fee in the electricity bill (basically this accounts for electricity distribution network).

As a professional Electrician I can confirm that this is the best way to get a line in the conduit. Lol. Nice job!

I believe the high cost is for the power company taking ownership of that stretch of underground line to the meter. They're responsible for it from now on. From the main line to the meter.

I only clicked because that green box was my childhood “kind of the hill” spot in every neighborhood I went. The humming and warmth or pure radioactivity is oddly nostalgic

Well, I paid $1,800 to replace my 20-gal steel well water pressure tank & switch. In its place is a 30-gal composite tank. Mind you, I dug up the old tank with a standard spade shovel & I had to bury the new tank. A regular plumber quoted me $3,500 to do it. Service call just to come to my home is $300 & if he had to use his own mini excavator, that is an additional $200/hour. And the tank replacement is still $1,800. When it is a necessity - it will cost you and arm and a leg, then some more. Which is more of an eye-sore? Small green boxes or wood poles sticking in the aire?

The amount they charged to do that small bit of work is disgusting. Cracking job as always Matt, they should've done all of your excellent prep work and brought you coffee for that price.

the amount of stuffs we learn with you is baffling

One favorite parts of being a sparky . Sending the pull line. Ive seen 5 stories and a block and half pulled in seconds. Cut a grove into the metal conduit.

Haven't seen a vicious flame war in awhile. Really surprised that this video would "spark" one. No pun intended. Exciting. Interesting story about electrical infrastructure and the power grid. Thank you.

Congrats, Matt! 52 grand is a lot of doe ray me, but that's the price you have to pay when dealing with the establishment! It's done, and it's time to start a new chapter at Diesel Creek. Your videos are the best, and we all look forward to seeing many more!

Hey Matt, if you see this, for future reference, mule tape has a little number printed on it every couple of feet. Those are footage. Read the number at both ends, subtract the smaller from the larger. That's your wire length without pulling the tape out to measure.

Used a foam 'mouse' attached to the pull string 40 years ago when we laid conduit. Never imagined people would make videos and get mind blown by that kind of work in the next century.

I'm Cathys husband and when I was in Vietnam our basecamp ran off, a 25 KW diesel generator. I would think that $52,000, would buy a lot of fuel. You don't live there.do you? Seems on the web site you're trying to build on the place and in the future build a house. I like how you fix up junk heavy equipment, and get them working again..