2 Tips To Choosing The Right Agricultural Electrical Contractor

When you need electrical work done on your farm, you want to ensure that you work with the proper electrical contractors. You need to work with someone who understands your electrical system's importance to your farm. That means that you should look for agricultural electrical contractors. When you are looking for contractors to work with, you need to ask them some questions to ensure that you are working with someone who values your farm and will do the job right for you.

Emergency Service

You need to find out what their emergency service policy is. While you may be able to do without heat in your house overnight in the middle of winter, your animals can't. If the power system to a barn full of pigs fails in the middle of the night, they aren't going to have the necessary heat. You need to know that you can call the electricians and have someone out to your farm as soon as possible to get the electrical system working again. When you are checking on their emergency service policy, make sure that you check to see how much you are going to have to pay for those calls. It's generally higher than the regular service calls, but it is worth the extra cost to have someone you can call in an emergency. 

Farm Experience

You also want to determine how much farm or agricultural experience the contractor has. This doesn't necessarily mean that the contractor has done farm work. Instead, it means how much experience they have in doing electrical work in farm or agricultural settings. Electrical work done in agricultural settings will have issues that residential electrical work won't. For example, suppose you want a silo where you store grain wired for electricity. In that case, the electrician has to be very careful with the system so that no sparks are generated because the chaff of the grain can be flammable. An electrical contracting company that has done a lot of agricultural work will be familiar with risks like that, or that pigs and goats will chew on anything. Wiring must be hidden or covered so the animals can't destroy it. 

You need power for your farm to work the way that it should. Without power, you can't keep your animals warm or cool, run irrigation systems, milk cows, or just about any other task necessary for your day-to-day operations. Working with an electrical contractor specializing in agriculture can help ensure you get that power.

Reach out to a company like Twisted Electric LLC for more information.