Trench, day 4

Lots of progress made on the trench and electrical work today.  All the conduit is in the ground and all of it is now covered.  The well, garage and tool shed are now all re-wired to use the conduit wires.

The extra wire/circuit breaker my Uncle Larry and I tried to remove during the bathroom remodel a few years ago has been re-purposed to be the circuit breaker for the well. (The extra wire has been left in the house wall and attic in case I ever need it for something else.)  Previously the well's circuit breaker was on an old pole near the well prior to the wire going from the pole to underground for the last few feet to the well.  The electrician also added a box with a circuit breaker inside the pump house.  The electrical outlet inside the pump house has been changed to be a GFCI outlet with cover.

The living room's heaters circuit breakers:  One was re-purposed to be for the garage/tool shed.  While I had an empty spot for a new 20 amp circuit breaker, the other living room heater circuit breaker was removed to make way for the new large 50 amp circuit breaker that will be for the barn and new irrigation pump.

Also solved was the mystery as to why the storage room part of the garage had electricity and the garage proper did not.  A fuse that looked normal was not.  The circuit was intact when looking at the fuse but a test showed it did not allow power to pass.

The barn will be completed tomorrow.  I didn't have corral panels up today so the few times the Joe the electrician had to work on the conduit outside the barn I distracted Buddy by talking to him and scratching his head and massive neck.  The one time I wasn't there Joe said Buddy came over and just stood there watching Joe work.

Once the barn is done the last piece of the puzzle is to re-wire from the barn to the livestock well.  To handle a 5 HP pump the electrician feels a different size of wire is needed.  As the conduit is in place from when my uncles helped wire the barn to the well, all the electrician needs to do is pull the new wire through the conduit.

Now to buy the 5 HP pump and take down all the old overhead wires.