Can you guarantee that there are never any children playing there? No fragile elderly persons taking a stroll? No 'caravan-dwellers' visiting on the off chance they might find some copper cable lying about?
Can a switched fused connection unit control multiple spurs?
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It's interesting how times change. Well within my living memory, no-one would have dreamed of asking questions like these.
Kind Regards, John
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True John, but you're incredibly old! 
Then again, in the "good old days", would anyone have dreamt of trailing a live cable across someone else's property without asking permission?
Then again, in the "good old days", would anyone have dreamt of trailing a live cable across someone else's property without asking permission?
Beware if it is common land then that puts even more onus on you to ensure the safety of others.
With private shared land your liability will be limited to those people who own the land or have permission to travel across it.
Although, thanks to lawyers, you owe a duty of care even to trespassers who travel across your land.
I'm probably only talking of 30 or 40 years ago!True John, but you're incredibly old!
Going back a little further, I remember that, in my youth it not being uncommon for people to 'trail' cables from their houses across public pavements to their cars parked at the roadside in order to charge their (not very good!) car batteries overnight. The more enterprising sent the cable out of an upstairs house window, attached to something on the top of the car, thereby risking hanging passers-by rather than tripping them up!
Kind Regards, John
It was also not uncommon for complaints to be made by people who tripped over those cables, or by the car owners who found someone had removed said cable so they didn't trip over it again! I wouldn't be surprised if some of the battery chargers disappeared overnight, but perhaps that didn't happen in leafy Buckinghamshire!
'Twern't leafy Buckinghamshire in those days but, rather, non-leafy Greater London! I certainly remember my father doing it, but I can't recall any incidents, complaints or thefts - but it was a long time ago, so I can't guarantee my memory!
Kind Regards, John
Anyway, back to the OP.
We're not trying to be confrontational, but rather to point out some of the possible pitfalls of what you're proposing. You implied in your earlier remark that there is a possibility of getting permission to provide a cable below the tarmac, but I think you need to get that permission to trail a cable, or there is a possibility of civil liability as well as the possibility of loss of your cable.
We're not trying to be confrontational, but rather to point out some of the possible pitfalls of what you're proposing. You implied in your earlier remark that there is a possibility of getting permission to provide a cable below the tarmac, but I think you need to get that permission to trail a cable, or there is a possibility of civil liability as well as the possibility of loss of your cable.
It's a Residential Current Device.
For the uninitiated this is a play on words for a Residual Current Device.
Just trying to help. [/HUMOUR]
Given the public nature of this forum EFLI, that might not have been the most helpful of posts.
A decent quality one of those is hard to disconnect - will do nothing to reduce a trip hazard.
I was more worried about the number of readers of this forum who might think that's what we mean by an RCD!
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