Morning guys. How are you? I hope you all having a lovely day
We're just on the way to a job. We've been out to this job last week
and we located so the council are replacing the kerb and channel out along there and we've already been out
and we've already located the water services that cross the road and the gas services that cross the road.
But there are a couple of them that don't have trace wires, the gas pipes that don't have trace wires and a couple of plastic water pipes
that we can't locate. So what we can do is, we've got them to
get traffic control to come out so we're just on the way now, hopefully traffic control will be set up by the time we get there.
And what we're going to do we're going to run the radar over the road
and we're going to push the radar along the road and see if we can find where these underground services are that
can't be detected with a cable locator. So is what we're up to today.
I'm try and set the camera up at a few different angles and get a few, get some footage for you so you can see how it all goes.
That's assuming the traffic control's all set up and are good to go when we get there, and yeah, that's what we're up to. Alright guys,
I'll talk to you shortly. Bye.
Alright guys, so we're still waiting for traffic control to set up
but let me just show you an example of what's to go is. So,
this house over here, they've got a gas pipe yellow is gas okay and across the road whoops shadow, let me get out of the shadow.
We have the gas pipe, yellow gas,
going under it's about 800 deep right there,
700 deep right there. This is what they're re placing. We're replacing the kerb and channel the whole way down. You can see
you can kind of see it,
see how the road how it has sunk down a lot of kerb lifted up so they are fixing the lot up.
And over here is where the gas pipe is, 800ml deep, but when you come up this way
have a look up here so that was the house there
their gas, this house over here though their gas meter is over there
but we cannot find where it comes out. The gas guys have come out and they reckon it comes around here somewhere
but there's no trace wire so I don't know how they found it. They might just be looking off the plan
so what we're going to do we're going to run the ground penetrating radar
along here, along this side of the road through here
because the gas main is on this side of the road so all we're trying to find is the gas service so we're going to run the
gas, we're going to run the GPR
along here and see if we can find where it crosses the road.
So, that's it. That is what we're up to today.
So the water main is on that side
of the road, gas main is on this side of the road water main is on that side of the road
This guy here his water meter is in the bushes here.
It's a bit hard to see but his water meter is in there, trus me,
we fuond it the other day. Actually, you can just see that the tap
there, so that's the tap right over there. So the water service should be going across the road
over to the water main on that isde of the road
But it's plastic so it can't be found underground so we're going to run the radar through here and hopefully we find find it around here.
So, not 100% certain that we'll definitely find it.
Depends what the soil conditions are like
but hey, right now they don't know where it is at all
so this is the next best option from to try and locate it rather than just digging down
randomly anywhere trying to expose it. So we're going run the radar over it.
Okay, so as you would have seen
had limited success.
Oh look, we found, found stuff that we didn't find before which is good,
so we did have, so I can call it successful day. There were some services
we could not find it all. So let's come for a quick walk and I'll show you.
So, this one here, said there's a water meter over there,
can you see, let me go across the road. So their water meter, so although you see it's metal there,
it's copper at the top part underground it gets turns to plastic and then
over here we could not find or locate it but with the ground penetrating radar we've been able to find if it's in this vicinity.
You'll see these dots, he's got one dot there and then another dot there
so it's not in exact alignment and we've got a straight line
but still got the good vicinity so we know before if we dig down here
we'll be able to see where it is and same on the other side. Come for a walk down this way
and I'll show you another one. So we've got the water, so this house here
even though there's a water main on that side of the road, this house here the water goes around
we've worked out that it goes around goes over to here and then crosses the road here and
you've got to love it when this happens. I've only been here for 5 minutes trying to locate where this pipe was, probably more than 5 minutes trying to locate
where this pipe was,
after we found it. we then see this.
A "W" which tells us
that's where the water service crosses the road. Which is good, it reassures us that we've found at the right spot.
So it's a bit of a bend through there but at least it tells them,
I mean, look where the house is
and no idea where the water service could be crossing so at least this tells them where it where it is. Keep coming down,
I'll show you some of the bad ones that we couldn't find.
So water, because the pipe is filled with water,
it's easy to see with the penetrating radar compared to gas because the gas pipe is filled with air
it's a lot harder to see the
density of the of the pipe is a lot less
so it's not as easy to see. This trace wire and other stuff that you can see it, if it's a bigger pipe
you can see it, so here's a good example of one we could not find.
So, we know to get meter is up
over there, can you just see it next to the house. Probably just can't see it. So we know the gas meter
is definitely there but we cannot locate where it crosses the road.
According to gas plans
the gas guys have been out and they reckon it should cross the road around through here
but we've not been able to, there's no trace wire on the pipe
and we've not being able locate it. We've gone with the ground penetrating radar, found something about there
and something about there but not really good.
I'm not confident enough to say it's definitely gas in that one area. So
we're going to have to come out with the NDD truck or get the client to dig down by hand and have a dig
around this vicinity where the gas guys say it is, see if we can find the pipe there.
Over here, we found the gas. So, the gas pipe here does have a tracer you see on it. The trace is good, good, good,
good, good, good and then stops about there, 1.4 deep. We can't find it on the other side. It must be a cut
either broken or something's gone wrong tracer, we can't get it.
But we have found something else here, I don't know what it is, but there's something else through this vicinity here.
I don't think it's a gas pipe. It might be, you never know. But there is something else there.
Same here, not really the best. There's a water meter over there.
We know it should be coming over to the water main over here but again, can't really find it.
So yeah, so that's the outcome for today I
say, still we've found the stuff that they didn't know so that's good. Let me show you another one.
So found one there so we know that's something.
So yeah, so that's the outcome. Found a couple things that they didn't know
There's other stuff that we haven't been able to find.
But still, yeah, I want to call it a successful day.
Alright guys, hope you're all having a great day and we'll talk to you next job. Bye.
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