Electrician in Claypool, Indiana
Claypool is farm ground, and farm wiring is a different trade from house wiring.
At McClone Electric, WE KNOW AG. Farmers were this company’s first customers back in 1981, they still are, and farm work is what we know best.
Grain
Around Claypool that means dryers, legs, augers and bins, with the fans and sweeps in them, on new systems and on ones that have grown for thirty years.
We make all of our control boxes in house. Every grain panel is built and tested at our shop, and each device in it gets a printed label with its circuit number.
The motors are interlocked to start in the right order, and the custom controls page explains why that matters.
If a panel needs attention two years on, whoever built it is a few minutes away rather than three states off. See custom controls and agriculture.
Three-phase out where the poles run thin
Three-phase does not reach every lane around Claypool, and what a farm can run depends on what the utility brought to it.
Where there is three-phase, we bring in the service and the feeders, and wire the motor loads that come with it: dryers, legs, compressors, shop equipment.
Where there is not, we install phase converters. How they work, and when they beat bringing three-phase down the lane, is on the agriculture page.
Farm shops and pole barns
A shop building with no power in it is one of the most common calls we get out this way.
Sub-panel, a 240V welder circuit, a heater so the shop is usable in January, and an air compressor. We trench the wire in, however far the shop sits from the house.
More under pole barn wiring.
Livestock buildings
Fans and ventilation above everything, then lighting, water, feed and the controls that run them.
If the fans stopping is the emergency, talk to us about standby power before the outage rather than after it. We install standby generators sized to carry the building. See generator installation.
Houses and shops in town
Claypool itself is houses, and we do those too. Service upgrades and panel replacements, circuits for a remodel, lighting and ceiling fans. See residential.
Small commercial — offices, shops, churches, rentals. See commercial.
When it cannot wait
Out here that means a dryer down at harvest, or a barn whose fans have stopped.
We have taken those calls since 1981. Emergency electrician.
Questions people ask
- Who builds the panel for a grain system?
- We do, at our own shop, and every circuit in it is numbered and labeled.
- Will you work on a grain system another outfit installed?
- Yes. Most grain systems around here have grown piece by piece over the years, so somebody else’s wiring is normal to us.
- Will you wire the house while you are out at the farm?
- Yes, and we can usually do both in the same trip.
Get a quote
Contact us today for a free, no hassle quote on your upcoming project.
Call (574) 594-3532 or send us a message.
Also serving Warsaw, Winona Lake, Pierceton, North Webster, Syracuse, Leesburg, Milford, Mentone, Silver Lake and Atwood — all our service areas.