Does this electric pole look safe to you?

[Jungle Bill]

SSE have been putting in a new supply to my neighbour, Scottish Water. As part of the work they have upgraded the switches, including this box on a pole in my field of cows and calves. It has cables coming out the bottom and as you can see it's at the ideal height for a scratch. It's also not locked, so easy enough to open and play with the controls.

I've told them I'm not happy and holding them responsible but have been told that's how they always do it, it's only low voltage (?) and tried to talk me into letting them leave it as it is.

Does anyone know anything about these boxes? Are they really safe?

And to top it all they left the gate open in the hurry to pack up on Friday afternoon...

 

[Nearly]

Not safe, send them a letter / email so they have it in writing, then knock it off.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Box has been set at eye height for the engineers ,save them having to take a ladder,climbing gear and save having to fill a risk assessment form out anytime they go to it ,,

 

[phillipe]

send a letter then knock it off

 

[ricky_rascal]

I'd be surprised if cattle don't lark about and pull at those cables coming out the bottom?

 

[kmo]

Have one the same height. Cattle were in the field when it was fitted.
They've been out to change the box once. (wrong cabinet fitted first time)
They've been out once to replace a cable the cattle had rubbed off. (In my case the box is for a remote control line switch, so no high voltage involved at the box)
Said they'd be back to fit a guard. (Never seen since)
Said they could raise the box. (never seen since)

 

[glasshouse]

Took them 12 yrs to come to replace this pole.
Only came cos i said wires were down

 

[Samcowman]

Would be surprised if the cattle don't rub those wires off in the near future to show that they aren't safe

 

[glasshouse]

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SSE have been putting in a new supply to my neighbour, Scottish Water. As part of the work they have upgraded the switches, including this box on a pole in my field of cows and calves. It has cables coming out the bottom and as you can see it's at the ideal height for a scratch. It's also not locked, so easy enough to open and play with the controls.

I've told them I'm not happy and holding them responsible but have been told that's how they always do it, it's only low voltage (?) and tried to talk me into letting them leave it as it is.

Does anyone know anything about these boxes? Are they really safe?

And to top it all they left the gate open in the hurry to pack up on Friday afternoon...

No

 

[willie waver]

Took them 12 yrs to come to replace this pole.
Only came cos i said wires were down

you got beavers in that field?

 

[david]

Shocking, positively shocking !

 

[holywell farmer]

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SSE have been putting in a new supply to my neighbour, Scottish Water. As part of the work they have upgraded the switches, including this box on a pole in my field of cows and calves. It has cables coming out the bottom and as you can see it's at the ideal height for a scratch. It's also not locked, so easy enough to open and play with the controls.

I've told them I'm not happy and holding them responsible but have been told that's how they always do it, it's only low voltage (?) and tried to talk me into letting them leave it as it is.

Does anyone know anything about these boxes? Are they really safe?

And to top it all they left the gate open in the hurry to pack up on Friday afternoon...

Youth with metal bar could rip that open get electric shock dead !

 

[Frodo2]

If you are worried about it you have 3 options.

one.
Put your own post and rail fence around it. Use second hand materials and the only cost to you is 10 mins of time. Make it your good deed for the day.

Two
leave it alone and wait for a cow to damage it. Phone Sse at a particilaly unsuitable time and have argument about whose fault it is.

Three
Spend a couple of hours trying to convince SSE to do option 1 and be astounded that something which you could have done in 10 mins takes the. 2 days and costs 000's

 

[Princess Pooper]

No, definitely not safe. In contrast, WPD put a new 3 phase line up in our main cow field and it had to go underground for a short stretch where it went beneath some high voltage lines. Where the cable went back up the pole to go overhead again, they put a plastic cable guard over it. The cows had rubbed it off a few months later and they were back again within a week of our mentioning it to put it right. And that's just a cable guard over an armoured cable.

 

[Princess Pooper]

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SSE have been putting in a new supply to my neighbour, Scottish Water. As part of the work they have upgraded the switches, including this box on a pole in my field of cows and calves. It has cables coming out the bottom and as you can see it's at the ideal height for a scratch. It's also not locked, so easy enough to open and play with the controls.

I've told them I'm not happy and holding them responsible but have been told that's how they always do it, it's only low voltage (?) and tried to talk me into letting them leave it as it is.

Does anyone know anything about these boxes? Are they really safe?

And to top it all they left the gate open in the hurry to pack up on Friday afternoon...

1) Find the correct contact point and send them an email with photos and make sure you keep a copy.
2) If no response forthcoming, are you on Twitter? Put these photos up with SSE tagged in your post and wait for a reaction....

 

[glasshouse]

you got beavers in that field?

Just hungry sheep.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Yes , no

 

[Lincs Lass]

Yes , no View attachment 555000

I take it they use concrete poles so the termites dont eat them

 

[Courier]

Might be "Low Voltage" but 80 volts will kill a cow....So 415 ??!!

 

[puppet]

Bloody student tractor drivers