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Originally Posted by Ekka  Anyone hit a gas line with a stump grinder? That would have to be the worst.
A guy blacked out 20,000 houses a short while back when he stump ground the 11kv (underground).
We got this service here Dial Before You Dig - Home but frankly, it wont help much inside private property ... mainly covers public areas and larger infrastructure not where the local plumber ran his crap.
I hit a beauty of a water main in a block of 60+ townhouses. Could not turn it off either, was a 1" pipe. The fountain went higher than the roofs, I have a standard out on all my quotes ... customers problem not mine. Apparently the plumber couldn't turn off the water either and turned his shovel over sitting on it's handle and worked blind fitting all the bits and getting soaked. 
I think it's funny coz we cut trees and cop sawdust. They want to plumb and not get wet.  |
Never hit a gas line but one time I was drilling tree holes and saw a bunch of guys screaming and jumping up and down . Turns out It was the guys that put in under ground wires for the street light last week . Pulled out the auger and there was a rats nest of new wire on it . Saving grave I marked the tree holes night before and told the wire guy I would drilling in morning .Also I have been told it ok to dig by mangers because call before dig is clear .So I dig with back hoe all morning come back from lunch and right where I was digging is electrical line marked . I have also been told you are lucky to be a live any deeper and you would have blown to the moon .