Agricultural Electrician, Farm & Three Phase, North Yorkshire

Why a farm is not a big house.

Dust, water, ammonia, vibration, rodents, pressure washers and machinery that starts under heavy load. Every one of those shortens the life of an installation that was specified as though it were going into a kitchen. Add cable runs measured in hundreds of metres between buildings and voltage drop stops being a line in a book and starts being the reason a motor runs hot.

The board in that photograph is a fair example of what the work looks like. Three phase distribution feeding red three phase outlets for the heavy machinery, blue 16A singles, and ordinary 13A twins for everything else. Every one of them on its own isolator, so a fault on one thing does not stop the whole building.

A three phase distribution board in a farm store: Schneider KQ Loadcentre on a backboard, three phase meter above, six red three phase sockets, two blue 16A single phase and two twin 13A, each on its own isolator. — Three phase board and socket outlets, farm store

Livestock buildings and the things that are specific to them.

Buildings with animals in them bring their own problems. Washdown means water where water is not wanted. Ammonia eats fittings that would last twenty years in a workshop. Cattle rub against anything at rubbing height and will find the one conduit that was not fixed properly.

So the work goes in higher, in the right enclosures, with the accessories chosen for the building rather than for what was in the van. It costs a little more to install and considerably less to keep running.

What is covered

What this covers.

Three phase supplies, distribution boards and sub mains
Three phase and single phase socket outlets, isolators and switchgear
Farm and barn wiring, first and second fix
Livestock building electrics, lighting and power
Grain stores, machinery stores and workshops
Outbuildings, yard lighting and long runs between buildings
General farm electrical maintenance and fault finding

Priced after a look at what is actually there. A figure over the phone on work like this would be a guess, and a guess is how people end up with a second, bigger number halfway through.

Get booked inBack to you within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.

The quiet advantage of being local to it.

The patch this business covers runs from Swaledale and Wensleydale out to the Vale of York, which is genuine farming country. Three phase, long runs and livestock buildings are ordinary work here rather than something unusual that gets subcontracted out.

If you are not sure whether what you need is a job for a domestic sparks or somebody used to farms, ring and describe the building. You will get a straight answer either way.

Call 07546 173885

Where

Covered across North Yorkshire.

This work goes out across the whole patch, from Swaledale and Wensleydale down to York and Harrogate.

HuntonHunton is home.See the area RichmondRichmond and the villages around it, from the market place down to the river.See the area Reeth and SwaledaleReeth and up the dale beyond it.See the area Hawes and Upper WensleydaleHawes and Upper Wensleydale.See the area LeyburnLeyburn and the surrounding part of Wensleydale.See the area Catterick and Catterick GarrisonCatterick, the Garrison and the estates around them.See the area

Hunton Richmond Reeth Hawes Leyburn Catterick Bedale Northallerton Darlington Harrogate York Middlesbrough All areas

Also

The rest of the board.

RewiresFull and partial rewires, and consumer unit replacements carried out to the 18th Edition of the wiring regulations.Read more EICRsAn Electrical Installation Condition Report is an inspection and test of the whole electrical installation, written up so you can read it.Read more Fault findingTripping breakers, dead sockets, lights that flicker when the kettle goes on, a fault that only shows up when it rains.Read more

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Questions

Worth knowing before you ring.

Do you do three phase?

Yes. Three phase supplies, distribution boards, sub mains, isolators and three phase socket outlets are a regular part of the work rather than an occasional one.

Can you work around stock and around the working day?

It has to be planned that way or it does not get done. Milking, feeding and turnout do not move to suit an electrician, so the sequence of work is agreed with you before it starts.

Is a farm building inspected the same way as a house?

The principles are the same but the environment is not, and the standards recognise that. Agricultural and horticultural installations have their own requirements in the wiring regulations covering things like the conditions in livestock buildings. That is part of why a farm job should not be priced like a domestic one.

Farm electrics, three phase, and buildings that fight back.