Working on getting power to our barn. Went underground. I had the conduit installed from road to transformer. Oncor was doing the rest under their allowance.

Oncor sent a contractor yesterday to pull primary wire and set transformer. They stubbed out secondary towards meter base. See picture below. Instead of that crew going the last 4 feet to connect to meter base, they stopped and buried the pipe.
Now Oncor will send another crew to dig that back up and run the next few feet of conduit. Just seems incredibly inefficient.

That requires a real electrician. There’s high voltage in there.

There’s no electric in there right now. The wire isn’t hooked to anything currently.

You don't want to pay an electrician to bury conduit and pull wire, You don't want ditch diggers and wire pullers to wire the meter.


Makes sense to me.

MO

They had a crew there burying conduit with a mini excavator. Now they’ll have to send another crew to do the same thing for the last few feet.

They are the worst.

Yeah, that would have prompted a phone call from me, that just seems expensively dumb, even if it is a contract type deal. If they have the where with all to do that install, they surely can dig 4' and stub the line there. smh

I am surprised that they are doing the secondary conduit at all, cool for you to get them to do it.
All branches of Oncor like to do things a little different, but generally we will run conduit from the meter location to the transformer location and stub it up with the primary conduit at the transformer. Then Oncor will pull the primary conductors and sometimes the secondary from the transformer to the meter can location. But almost always, we do the underground work, they don't like to do it. And then that depends much on your designer and the territory.
But stubbing up a conduit four feet from the building when they had the equipment right there sounds like somebody wanted to go home early.
I am guessing that the meter was to be on the building, not on a rack away from the building?

So get a shovel, some conduit, and some PVC glue.