Why campground pedestals fail!
I’ve been advocating yearly pedestal maintenance and finally getting some traction…
Everyone,
I found this post in one of my Electrical Code groups…
Here’s the theory why this happens…
I’ve been advocating yearly pedestal maintenance!
I’ve getting a little traction recently with campgrounds on teaching their maintenance crews how to do yearly pedestal inspection and maintenance. But I’ve been pitching this idea to various campground owners groups for 10 years without success, so wish me luck!!! The times, they are a changin’
Let’s play safe out there… Mike
You are 100% spot on for the need of routine maintenance. Whatever happened to the days of apprenticeship and basic routine maintenance, even a simple annual on each pedestal can eliminate a lot of broken fix, cleaning and lubrication is cheaper , a little no-ox goes a long way.
A simple guess would be greed, followed by ignorance themselves because no one showed them what is needed, then laziness. We visit on average 50 campgrounds a year with our RV and I have seen some that we just pulled out and left because i would not even try plugging into a bent over, rusted ped, with half a cover, being told by the manager, it worked fine for the last RV.
Wishing you the best of luck getting those camp owners to take action.
Thank You for the photo and the reasoning.