need to buy a good underground utility locater ?

[earthscratcher]

well I just spent a full day looking for a water line that should have been found in a hour. what are guys using to locate underground wire/pipes lines. thanks

 

[CM1995]

Bought one of the original locators Pipehorn several years ago and it works great. Bonus for us is they are made in Birmingham, AL.

Underground Pipe & Wire Locators - Pipehorn Locating Technology

For more than 50 years, Pipehorn has been in the business of delivering solutions to address problems related to underground utility location and damage prevention.

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It's been a good unit.

 

[earthscratcher]

thanks cm would you buy the HL or just the H model

 

[Vetech63]

 

[CM1995]

thanks cm would you buy the HL or just the H model

No problem. I bought the HL.

 

[hvy 1ton]

Radio Detection makes the best locating equipment.

 

[IceHole]

Excavator bucket seems to work great.

Funny enough, I trenched power to a sign that had buried 7200v, fiber, phone, cable going across like it was a spider web, no problems. Using a clapped out Deere 310A, about had to cast out the bucket as it was so loose.

Boring outfit comes to install some lines with their fancy equipment, managed to rip out the main phone line twice and sent a guy to the hospital when he Sawzalled a 7200v feeder that they claimed was dead. "Not in an drawings"
Oh ripped that line out too... like ripped it right out from the building that fed it!

 

[earthscratcher]

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had two different old timers there, both used this method, both way of

 

[Deere500a]

Last week bucket and throttle for the win 15 ft past indicators & shallower than they thought it gave everyone extra time the brains scratching and electricians wondering wtf & me with no cookie for finding the surprise sometimes it happens

 

[Tugger2]

Ive found that a 40' 12"@72 H pile under a 4500 lb drop hammer is a good underground locator .Over the years of pile driving we seem to find all kinds of things that were not supposed to be there.

 

[IceHole]

Ive found that a 40' 12"@72 H pile under a 4500 lb drop hammer is a good underground locator .Over the years of pile driving we seem to find all kinds of things that were not supposed to be there.

The spicy roots are the ones I get scared of. Or a gas main.

Contractor hut one in Anchorage a few years ago, had flames like 50ft high.

 

[aighead]

Is there a service that would have something like this to either hire or rent? I know where the water shutoff is, in the front yard, but then it goes who-knows-where about 300 feet to the house. I'd rather not dig it up and I don't think Call Before You Dig spots water lines do they?

 

[terex herder]

Is there non-destructive equipment that can find buried plastic lines without tracer wires? Is there anything affordable for mortals?

 

[CM1995]

Is there a service that would have something like this to either hire or rent? I know where the water shutoff is, in the front yard, but then it goes who-knows-where about 300 feet to the house. I'd rather not dig it up and I don't think Call Before You Dig spots water lines do they?

What material is the pipe? If plastic does it have a tracer wire.

 

[reganj]

Call your local locator service, 411 is the number here. They locate and if you hit something it is on them. Someone hit a three quarter inch gas line feeding a house prior to calling 411. The bill was 3500.00
Luckily, they were able to get the bill reduced to 500.00 If someone had callled 411 and hit the line it would have cost 0.00

 

[doug dirt]

Is there non-destructive equipment that can find buried plastic lines without tracer wires? Is there anything affordable for mortals?

Yes , I have a locator that picks up pipe without tracer wires.

I have to see who makes it.

 

[doug dirt]

What material is the pipe? If plastic does it have a tracer wire.

Alot of pipe in the ground around our area does not have tracer wire.

 

[chidog]

The average locator service is just for the feeding utilities to the property, anything else is not covered.
Like if a water meter is on the side of the county street any piping to the home is on the owner, same with electric lines past the meter. Utilities pay them and only up to their meters, nothing else.

Plastic pipes with water can be traced with a radio frequency introduced into the water.
I know because the time we needed that done his gizmo was broken. That was a private owner pay locator.

Yeah gotta love worthless website like this one. No prices etc.

Underground Pipe & Wire Locators - Pipehorn Locating Technology

For more than 50 years, Pipehorn has been in the business of delivering solutions to address problems related to underground utility location and damage prevention.

pipehorn.com

Are there places to rent this sort of stuff?

 

[earthscratcher]

we found this one by opening the water line at the shutoff in building, then shoved a electrical fish tape down the plastic pipe towards the service pit

 

[CM1995]

Yeah gotta love worthless website like this one. No prices etc.

Underground Pipe & Wire Locators - Pipehorn Locating Technology

For more than 50 years, Pipehorn has been in the business of delivering solutions to address problems related to underground utility location and damage prevention.

pipehorn.com

LOL wut?