Enclosed Service Drop

[Mike Lamb]

Is anyone familiar with enclosed service cable with a metal covering? I just saw it for the first time and I'm wondering about what sort of history it has.

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[hausdok]

Hi,

I've never seen anything like that before.

OT - OF!!!

M.

[Les]

Photo shows what we look at 99.9% of the time. Maybe I am not getting entire picture, all I see is a drop and weatherhead.

[swolsen]

It looks like the service drop in within some kind of conduit or encasement; Or is that just an optical illusion?

[Inspectorjoe]

Mike:

By “enclosed service cable with a metal coveringâ€

[Mike Lamb]

I'm sorry about any confusion. I am speaking of the service drop, the overhead service from the utility power line to the weatherhead. That's not an optical illusion. The drop is enclosed in a metal encasement of some sort.

I have never seen this and was curious. The house was 1950's Chicago and the next door neighbor had the same deal.

[cguffin]

From the looks of the anchor it may be designed to resist the weight of an ice lode. Is the property near a large body of water?

Craig

[Inspectorjoe]

I'm sorry about any confusion. I am speaking of the service drop, the overhead service from the utility power line to the weatherhead. That's not an optical illusion. The drop is enclosed in a metal encasement of some sort.

Oh, that. I assumed it was the standard twisted three conductor stuff that the utilities companies around here use for their service drops. You wouldn't have another picture of it, would you? Looking closely, it reminds me of really heavy stranded steel cable, the type they use on suspension bridges. The conductors are inside that?

Never saw anything like it before.

[Chad Fabry]

It's a metal loom. They use those gizmos that they pull along the wire to wrap it.