A few days after completing the post the guys from the electric company came out to do their part. They were quick … done in less than two hours. They put in the new electric box and moved the meter into it:

… and moved the main supply wires from the summer kitchen to the new post:

While they were doing that and power was out I was making some arrangement in the house-electric-box for hooking up the new line.

They connected the new

All the old parts became bare and desolate (and ready for tear-down):
A few weeks later I got around to completing the job. First by putting in a new box in the summer kitchen. This was a first taste of carving into
Then I created two deadmen with scrap pieces of wood and nails, screwed the box into the deadmen and set the whole thing into fresh cob I placed in the hole:


This box now has a main fuse and a second fuse that is attached to a socket that we can use when working in the summer kitchen
This, I hope, concludes this