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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 6598020" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>I have northern power grid hovering around wanting to replace a mile or so of 11kv line across our fields. They can't tell me when they might start of course, so planning cultivations to help avoid a mess isn't really possible. A bit of foresight and cooperation could save everybody thousands but it doesn't happen. No doubt they have a planning department but can't even give any idea of what time of the year the work will start. I sometimes wonder how they manage to run a business at all. They have been three times already. Firstly with the helicopter, then a bloke in a car having a look around and soon they are going to "walk the line". Anything but get on with it, which will probably come out of the blue 3 weeks before harvest.</p><p></p><p>Then there is the water meter man who can't be arsed. Can't be arsed to lift the lid on the meter and read it so its estimated every time. We keep the undergrowth clear and the lid is accessible and I can open it and read the meter just fine but everytime he makes a complaint back to the office that he can't read it. </p><p></p><p>Then there is Meter Less. They have about 10 operatives in this county and only one of them can actually do anything and understands that power is quite important to us. The rest turn up but never do anything. The ladders too short mate. I have got no reception etc etc, and they pack up and off they go. The next man comes out and lo and behold the same ladder is long enough and reception is fine and he gets on installing the remote meter.</p><p></p><p>I have entirely given up on Openreach. Never managed to get the landline broadband working for more than a couple of days so don't use it anymore. EE 4g hub never lets us down and is faster than my neighbors fibre broadband which still uses copper to get to the fibre termination cabinet so is still slow and unreliable. Biggest con ever.</p><p></p><p>Rant over.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 6598020, member: 2119"] I have northern power grid hovering around wanting to replace a mile or so of 11kv line across our fields. They can't tell me when they might start of course, so planning cultivations to help avoid a mess isn't really possible. A bit of foresight and cooperation could save everybody thousands but it doesn't happen. No doubt they have a planning department but can't even give any idea of what time of the year the work will start. I sometimes wonder how they manage to run a business at all. They have been three times already. Firstly with the helicopter, then a bloke in a car having a look around and soon they are going to "walk the line". Anything but get on with it, which will probably come out of the blue 3 weeks before harvest. Then there is the water meter man who can't be arsed. Can't be arsed to lift the lid on the meter and read it so its estimated every time. We keep the undergrowth clear and the lid is accessible and I can open it and read the meter just fine but everytime he makes a complaint back to the office that he can't read it. Then there is Meter Less. They have about 10 operatives in this county and only one of them can actually do anything and understands that power is quite important to us. The rest turn up but never do anything. The ladders too short mate. I have got no reception etc etc, and they pack up and off they go. The next man comes out and lo and behold the same ladder is long enough and reception is fine and he gets on installing the remote meter. I have entirely given up on Openreach. Never managed to get the landline broadband working for more than a couple of days so don't use it anymore. EE 4g hub never lets us down and is faster than my neighbors fibre broadband which still uses copper to get to the fibre termination cabinet so is still slow and unreliable. Biggest con ever. Rant over. [/QUOTE]
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