Stolen live 3ph service head !!!

[JD6400]

Well it is a first for me!
Sent one of the lads out this morning to connect a couple of welfare cabins on a site in the centre of the village where our office is , and he phoned up saying that all we have is a live service cable just sitting in the box !?
This is the photo I received

 

[Pete999]

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Well it is a first for me!
Sent one of the lads out this morning to connect a couple of welfare cabins on a site in the centre of the village where our office is , and he phoned up saying that all we have is a live service cable just sitting in the box !?
This is the photo I received

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No clues as to who did or didn't do anything? Need to isolate that PDQ safely I may add.

 

[JD6400]

No clues as to who did or didn't do anything? Need to isolate that PDQ safely I may add.

Well Pete, I am not a betting man but would be willing to guess it is now on a TT supply and a 16a hook up
It was connected before we knocked off last year.
In fairness it didn't take long for them to attend site and rectify , just glad one of the brickies had not attempted to sort it out .

 

[Squid]

Blue and Brown tape miss-aligned, the standard of workmanship is slipping.

 

[littlespark]

The box has been mounted upside down.... look at the stickers.

Was this live during the holiday, or had there been a power shut off period when this is likely to have happened?

 

[JD6400]

The box has been mounted upside down.... look at the stickers.

Was this live during the holiday, or had there been a power shut off period when this is likely to have happened?

No live at all times
The site is in the middle of the village totally open and with 7 houses within 20m of the box which is in plain line of site just of the road !

We have a horrendous problem with certain members of the transient community at the moment in the area, they had my van over just a month ago at 7pm in the local town square with a good 30 people walking by , that cost £7000.

 

[Pete999]

No live at all times
The site is in the middle of the village totally open and with 7 houses within 20m of the box which is in plain line of site just of the road !

We have a horrendous problem with certain members of the transient community at the moment in the area, they had my van over just a month ago at 7pm in the local town square with a good 30 people walking by , that cost £7000.

Transient Community, now that's an apt description if ever I heard one.

 

[johnduffell]

Who walks past a cutout and thinks dodgy Dave down the pub will pay them enough to make it worth while riskng their life?

 

[Baddegg]

Well Pete, I am not a betting man but would be willing to guess it is now on a TT supply and a 16a hook up
It was connected before we knocked off last year.
In fairness it didn't take long for them to attend site and rectify , just glad one of the brickies had not attempted to sort it out .

That would’ve stumped a builder...blue to blue brown to ummmmmmmm.....

 

[littlespark]

It’s brown to green and blew to kingdom come

 

[Baddegg]

Must’ve broke the transient communities hearts to leave all that copper behind...

 

[chris gray]

Where’s the supply cable?

 

[JD6400]

Where’s the supply cable?

Hi Chris, not sure what you mean ?

 

[static zap]

-- Not everyone practices safe isolation --
Nice to see the old colours ,stripped so neatly.
-If the door was shut , does that not constitute a barrier ?
... Also a good reason to "Never go around fumbling in the dark"
..Memories of a missing cellar light switch -on the stairs !...

 

[Rosco]

That’s going to take a bit more than the seal fairy to sort out!

 

[chris gray]

Ahh, I mis read what was missing.
Why would someone steal that??

 

[snowhead]

Ahh, I mis read what was missing.
Why would someone steal that??

Someone who has access to a supply, maybe one running across a field either under or over, and wants to run a load off it without tripping the upstream fuses and drawing attention to themselves.
Fitting a cutout with fuses would give them some protection, maybe.
Of course they may also think that fitting a 3ph cutout to a single phase supply will give them 3 ph.

 

[SparkieMarky]

Who walks past a cutout and thinks dodgy Dave down the pub will pay them enough to make it worth while riskng their life?

We have had it happen on many occasions! You know when its happened as things keep tripping out up stream and you find the cable fault with a melted hacksaw in the middle of it!

 

[SparkieMarky]

Opps managed to reply twice like a complete dullard

 

[Rpa07]

It would be nice to know the future of that service head and it’s consequences but unless the crispy critter make it to the ‘local rag’, we’ll never know!