Agricultural & Farm Electrical Service
Farm wiring lives a hard life. Dust, moisture, ammonia, rodents and equipment all work against it, and a failure in the wrong week of the year is not an inconvenience, it is a crop. We wire and repair barns, shops, grain handling, wells and yard lighting, run buried feeds between buildings, and use gear rated for the environment it has to sit in.
Work on the farm
- Grain dryers, augers, legs and fans, including three-phase feeds and controls
- Barn, machine shed and shop wiring with fixtures rated for washdown and dust
- Buried feeds and subpanels between the house, the shop and the outbuildings
- Well, pump and livestock waterer circuits with GFCI and freeze protection considered
- Yard and security lighting on poles, with photocell or timeclock control
- Service upgrades where new equipment has outgrown the original farm service
Equipment rated for where it lives
The thing we replace most often on a farm is ordinary indoor gear installed somewhere it was never meant to be. Standard boxes and fixtures in a hog barn or a wash bay corrode from the inside out. Gasketed enclosures, corrosion-resistant fittings and sealed fixtures are what belong there, and they put an end to the annual replacement cycle.
Timing around the season
Nothing on a farm breaks at a convenient moment. We would far rather look at the dryer and the grain system in summer than in the middle of harvest, and we will tell you in July what is likely to fail in October. When it does fail at harvest, the phone is still answered at any hour.
Frequently asked questions
Do you work on grain drying and handling equipment?
We work on the electrical side: feeds, disconnects, motor circuits, starters and controls for dryers, augers, legs and fans. Mechanical repair stays with your equipment dealer.
Can you run power to a barn or shed away from the house?
Yes. A buried feed with a subpanel in the building is the usual answer, and we can bore under a lane or a yard rather than trenching across it.
Why does wiring fail so fast in a livestock building?
Ammonia and moisture attack terminals and enclosures that were never rated for them. The answer is gear made for wet and corrosive locations, not replacing the wrong gear more often.
Is three-phase available for farm equipment?
It depends on what the utility has at your site. Where it is not available, a phase converter for a single machine is sometimes the practical route, and we will tell you which applies to you.
Do you come out during harvest?
Yes. Emergency calls are answered around the clock, and we know that a dryer down in October is a very different problem from a dryer down in June.
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