THIS JOB IS FOR A QUALIFIED/LICENSED ELECTRICIAN OR LINE MAN ONLY!!!!

You should NOT be messing with the overhead POCO drop AT ALL!!! PERIOD!

I hesitate to comment. But your plan is well thought out. On one occasion over 50 year ago, I had to do similar work. And had nothing but the tools. The POCO had used split bolts. It probably predated the compressions connectors. I stood on the dry roof in my work shoes and touched one of the wires with my finger. No shock. So I did the work barehanded with no problem. A POCO retiree told me that in the days before the bucket trucks, his crew worked up to 2000 volts barehanded on poles IF the pole was really dry. But I cannot actually recommend that anyone do any of these things. There is always the possibility of problems. And for that reason, I do not post some of the things I do while I am doing troubleshooting and repair.

You're scaring me.
Welding gloves are not suitable. A flannel shirt is not sufficient. If you touch a 200A service line even without having your other hand on the grounded mast you're going to get quite a jolt.

Cutting hot wires with pliers? Self insulated rachet? What pray tell are you going to do if you lose your grip on the wire? Despite the fact it appears to not be under much tension, it is going to be HEAVY.

Frankly this is a job for someone with a clue. In fact, when the utility says they want "you" to do the work, they mean they want "you" to hire a licensed electrician. I'm sorry you DON'T WANT TO HEAR THAT but some things are not DIY

How about you do the following:

1. Pull your existing meter.
2. Run your temporary service from the metered side of the old meter to the new one.
3 Wait for the power company to do it right.

"The utility company expects the customer (me) to temporally connect the service and then they will come over at their leisure to do a permanent connection."

Still trying to wrap my head around that statement!
Anyone anywhere ever heard of such a thing?

You run the new drop lines over to the old drop and use crimp on connectors and the correct safety gear to connect them.

It is not the amateur hour.

While the voltage is only 120 V to the neutral (and 240 V between the hots) the current available to a fault is into the tens of thousands of amps.

Anything that gets across the lines and conducts well will be vaporized. INSTANTLY.

Where I live the POCO is responsible for everything down to the meter pan.

We normally jumper from the bottom of the old meter base to the top of the new, insert shorting bars, and plug the meter back into the old base.

The AHJ will get around to inspecting, and then the POCO will come install a new drop.

Sorry, my timing offends you. I was composing the question
while you were posting the answer.

I see that there were no further posts from the person starting the thread. Hopefully, he's still alive...

I took the first post literally. Reminds me of the saying: "If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not the sport for you".

boxing gloves are where it's at for any DIY electrical project. and for the love of God connect the neutral first, not last.

Thank you for all your comments.

"The utility company expects the customer (me) to temporally connect the service and then they will come over at their leisure to do a permanent connection."
Still trying to wrap my head around that statement!
Anyone anywhere ever heard of such a thing?

I've heard of that. In our area if the inspector passes the job it is expected that the electrician will hook up the service and the power company will stop by at their leisure to check the work.

Read my post. When they say the customer is responsible for something, they mean the customer is responsible to pay a licensed electrician to come out and do the work (and obtain any permits that may be required). It doesn't mean that they expect him to put on his galoshes and go up there and hook things up himself.

WOW, DON'T DO IT!!! 20 year Electrician here, and I am telling you now, DON'T DO IT! hire a Electrician do not even try, first off the fact you don't know to hook up the Neutral first says it all, and then your using welding glove OMG your nuts, your asking to die. Do not try this people, there is a reason Electricians spend years in school and years working in the trade to learn the right and safe way to do this kind of thing, in fact no one without a J-card should be doing this even if he was a 4 year Electrician, facts are that this is way outside your level of know how, do not play around with your live, or your families lives! NO the power company was telling you to have a State EC do the work, you pay him! they did not want you doing this yourself!

Well, he either didn't do it or he's long dead. The last post on that thread was nearly four years ago.

Or he succeeded

I dont think any homeowner in their right mind would mess with anything above the meter. Technically you arent even supposed to mess with the meter, they put a no tamper lock on it to know if you do and will fine you for risking your life or for possibly messing with the meter. Only if you have a service disconnect box past the meter can you mess with it from there, because you can safely cut power to what your working on.

The POCO typically prefers the meter get changed out when work is done on it anyhow, as this is the most proper time to do so.

I don't know why th is thread got necroposted (again). The seal is to determine if you tampered the meter for economic purposes. It really doesn't do much for safety.

However, I agree, pulling the meter is not in itself without risks. Not for duffers.

I had a similar situation, and eventually just hired an electrician to do the job. I was switching from 100A to 200A service (my old service was to a fuse box with 100 A cartridge fuses and 8 screw fuses, mostly 15A but one was higher (30A, I think) for the electric dryer. I installed the 200A breaker box next to the old one and transferred all the wires to the new one. I then ran a 4 GA line from the old fuse box to the new one. I then had the electrician replace the meter pan and remover the wiring to the old box and run a line to the new one.

I had contacted a local inspector who said "yes, you can do it yourself. You would call the POCO to disconnect your old service. You could then replace the meter pan. Then you would call me to inspect your work. I would probably come in a couple of weeks. Then call the POCO to reconnect the new meter/pan. That would probably take another couple of weeks." Hiring a licensed electrician cost only $800, so that's what I did. Interestingly, he did not think the line from the pole to the house had to be replaced!