thats why there was 3 of us, one at each end of the cable, another in the middle (whose job it was more to fend off the rig owners if they were being impatient as they obviously wanted to get set up) so there was absolutely no way the cable could end up energised in such a way as to put anybody at danger – it was bare tails one end (what go into a three phase distribution panel) and a red commando (400V) trailing socket on the other (to go into a portable distribution board)
I remember the cable being a euro-cable with the new colour codes (actually not even that but three browns marked 0 1 and 2- my initial thoughts were “what the fuck is this cable? I’ve never seen such a thing before!” so we had do it carefully and sensibly.
I don’t do this sort of thing any more as stealing electric gets you arrested, but when I did do it I put as much effort into being safe as EDF or Scottish and Southern Energy’s engineers would..
