Does anyone actually call 811 before they dig? No one really does this (excluding companies.)
>>2996705I wanted some of those little flags for a project so i called them to mark my front yard. Got some blue and orange ones.
No but literally everyone in my neighborhood has dropped their landlines so I've started collecting the signs and reusing the posts
>>2996705Our rural water company gets its lines hit by the fiberoptic cable guys about 2X per week
>>2997060A lot of water companies don't respond or have tracers in their pipes. If you call in 20 years ago the only locator is some grey bird that was there when the pipes were laid. Now he retired and no onenhas any idea.
>>2997060fuck lazy telecom niggersi hooked a 3" dia bundle with a ripper that was run diagonally across a field corner at like 16" deep and not marked as an easement on the deed. fuckers had just run it the shortest way possible with the vibratory sneaker then tried to claim we should have had a locate before farming a yearly tilled fieldpicel is a sub installing a fiber internet pull box in my driveway not in the utility easement on the other side of the fence. fuckers argued with me and said my paper deed was wrong. waited a week then hit it with my pickup and called the isp. they came out and did a nigger lazy job moving it over the fence with a shovel by hand and pulled the cable guitar string tight. the installers fucked sidewalks up all over town directional boring willynilly and had to fix a bunch of shit to state spec on the hwy shoulders. pure cheapass incompetence
>>2996705Yes, I don’t wanna hit anything
>>2996705>No one really does thisonce.then they break a gas line, or cut a power cable, or break a sewer line and get in a shit load of trouble.
>>2997088this is bullshit. when I was a kid in the 70's they used a type of detector. one for power cables, and one for pipes.
>>2997107it's almost like you are trying to speak english.
>>2997107LOLFor DSL like 10 years ago, the guys laying the cable were old telephone cable guys. They did fiber, too. But, they're all Boomers, so probably getting replaced by complete turds.
>>2997107BTW, if that a grey alien laying down in the army vehicle?
>>2997107How many different oil filter wrenches do you realistically need? I thought I had a retarded amount...
>>2997300Slip joint filter pliers > band type
>>2997263Smoothnrain. Sir.I'm not saying it doesn't exist or isn't done. A lot of water pipes are fucking old and they didn't have tracers placed when they were put down. You can't trace a metal pipe because the signal grounds out. You cant trace a plastic pipe because its plastic. If you can open the pipe and put a sonde in it you.can trace that but you cant usually do that to a water main.Power lines can be traced because of the power they have in them. Cable TV and phone have tracers or shields that.can be located.
>>2997332Yeah the slip joint ones are nice on anything you have side access to. The nylon belt style ones that you wrap up around the filter and use a ratchet will get the ones you only have access to the end.
I was once hired to do hvac.Instead they had me watching hole digging full days for geothermal.Then they told me to dig to find where the electrical crosses the property.>go fuck yourself
>>2996705I called before I dug posts for my 100' fence.After everyone came out and painted shit, I now know exactly where everything is, so ill never call again.
>>2996705I called them out once when I first bought my house. Then I measured and sketched out the utility locations on my site plan for future reference so I'd not need to have them flag things in the case I have to dig in those areas in the future.
