Finding under-ground utilities

[trackrat]

Be very careful around gas transmission lines. Equipment operators that hit high pressure gas transmission lines usually do not go home. Had a young fellow plowing in primary electric line, the address for the locate got screwed up and the pipeline operator cleared the location. He unloaded the plow right next to the warning sign near the road., when he hit the transmission line it ruptured and blew a hole in the ground about twice the size of a normal ranch house. He was killed instantly. Please be careful around the gas transmission system, you can hit 60-pound and standard pressure distribution lines all day and it usually is just costly. And yes, I am that busybody who when I see a tracked excavators being unloaded near a transmission who calls the pipeline operator.

I always call even if I know nothing is there once cut a long-distance phone cable in my next-door neighbor's yard NO ONEKNEW IT WAS THERE they had no easement for it the phone co. tried to charge me for it the owner told them if they charged me, he would make them move it. Found out it was put in in 1939 and only had 7 phones still on it

 

[Tony in SD]

I always call even if I know nothing is there once cut a long-distance phone cable in my next-door neighbor's yard NO ONEKNEW IT WAS THERE they had no easement for it the phone co. tried to charge me for it the owner told them if they charged me, he would make them move it. Found out it was put in in 1939 and only had 7 phones still on it

I always call even if I know nothing is there once cut a long-distance phone cable in my next-door neighbor's yard NO ONEKNEW IT WAS THERE they had no easement for it the phone co. tried to charge me for it the owner told them if they charged me, he would make them move it. Found out it was put in in 1939 and only had 7 phones still on it

There is a difference between a long distance toll cable and a residential feeder line. It is highly unlikely that they are the same cable. But who know what they did back in 1939. Maybe it was both.

 

[trackrat]

There is a difference between a long distance toll cable and a residential feeder line. It is highly unlikely that they are the same cable. But who know what they did back in 1939. Maybe it was both.

It was the old toll cable from Dallas to Austin

 

[moresmoke]

When the phone co was installing fiber along our road the contractor cut a large copper comm line. Guy from the phone co knocked on the door to see if we still had phone service. Their best guess was an abandoned USAF line.

The actual phone line wasn’t near that big. I pulled up a piece of that when I pulled out a stump last fall.