Has this any failings do you think? The door can be replaced.

mapj1 

You see no joints?

Presumably then the PILC is stripped back and brought into the cast iron head, then the conductors dressed to stand vertically and then set in pitch to secure them in position and seal the end of the cable?

There never did seem any intention of earthing the installation through the cast iron head as it doesn’t have an earth terminal cast into it.

I watched the video and it is a sophisticated process completed with a small number of tools. If I have a root about in my garage I could go a fair way towards assembling the required tool kit.

There are definitely some hacking knives in my garage, the knife being hit with a hammer. We used them when I started work for cutting sheet lead, getting putty out of window frames and other things such as cutting corrugated steel sheets.

This time of the year when the farmers filled the sheds and barns with bales of hay and straw we used go go and repair the roofs on the old corrugated iron roofed umbrella sheds whilst there was something to stand on, hopefully the curved corrugated iron sheets just fitted and the hacking knife was just used for fetching off the rusted bolt heads. Locally a lot of these sheds were actually put up by a gang of guys working for Bomfords and my Great Uncle Knocker was the foreman, so as I was working for my dad we managed to stretch the building and repair of these sheds out over three generations, all basically using the same tools.

The guys would not be able to do it now if the batteries for their cordless tools were flat and didn’t have a cherry picker. 

Random hand tool story.

I worked as a foreman for a house building and property company Poco that worked mainly around Liverpool and Manchester in the days before cordless power tools.

They sent out a memo that I may still have in my loft as it was a classic, it was headed Re: Carpenters, axes and hanging hardwood front doors.

The gist of it was a couple were buying a new house on an estate they were building and called by during the working week to see how it was progressing.

A carpenter was hanging the front door and needed to reduce the width by a fair bit, so rather than plane it down he had cut a series of saw kerfs and then was axing the waste away before tidying it up with his plane.

A very efficient way of doing it, but not the way to impress the customers.