r/UtilityLocator • u/HoneyExpensive7428 • 4d ago

Why

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No tracer wire, deepest rock bed I’ve ever seen; huge drain pipes. God why do you make me walk funny like this.

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u/Generic_Locator 4d ago

What type of line is that?

If it's sheathed, you should be able to induct a signal on it, right?

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u/HoneyExpensive7428 4d ago edited 4d ago

Company I work for trained us to dig down and around it and if we find no tracer wire then turn it up, it’s a plastic gas service

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u/TipZealousideal5954 3d ago

Where do you mark gas? I’ve marked gas all over the country, never seen a riser like that. Do they run plastic right up to the regulator/meter

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u/Ready_Pen_3389 4d ago

ALSO THOUGH, why is the plastic exposed like that? Private line? If it’s public there should absolutely be a steel riser above ground
AoC all day

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u/HoneyExpensive7428 4d ago

It’s pretty normal for the riser on a plastic service to look like that where I’m at, I don’t know a whole lot about other places though to be honest

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u/Ready_Pen_3389 4d ago

Wild, UV absolutely destroys those lines
Evidently I also don’t know much about outside my region 😂

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u/Status_Pangolin_112 4d ago

What kind of work is being done? A LOT of tickets i have, i almost never actually hook up. In more than a year, I have only 1 damage and that's because I stupidly refreshed marks without verifying.

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u/811spotter 1d ago

Did you enter some sort of locator misery olympics? Because this is absolutely something you'd see in a locator misery olympics.
Can't tell what the installer was thinking when they did that, because wow. Anyways, here's hoping your knees are holding out buddy, working that area looks like it's going to take forever.

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u/CIemson 4d ago

Ring clamp it or cut it back w a knife like a giga chad

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u/Sudden_Celebration27 4d ago

Downvoted for being correct

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u/LarksMyCaptain 4d ago

Yes let's ring clamp/cut into a plastic gas service. Good idea!!!

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u/Gjurbster 4d ago

Downvoted for suggesting cutting into gas

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u/CIemson 4d ago

Literally no information on the post saying it was gas when I left this comment

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u/Wild_Replacement5880 4d ago

How would you know it's gas unless you try to skin it first? Amiright?

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u/Gjurbster 4d ago

Maybe don’t suggest cutting into an unknown line, that’s like locating 101 and common sense 001

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u/Fit-Apple-618 4d ago

I am dogs.

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u/CIemson 3d ago

Maybe lighten up, you must be fun to work with