This is a very bad day. The only question is for whom. The contractor or the locate guy.
Either way someone is extremely fired.
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Rainbow roots!! I was in locating for a decade. As a young field technician, that site was one of nightmares!
Rainbow roots, lmao!! I will pull levers all day however you want but i had absolutely zero interest in running the locator box. Nope. Also did hydrovac for a while, some of it was uncovering where a line strike was. Neatest one i saw was a 10 ish unit apartment building with no water for multiple days, the directional barely nicked the copper main on the pullback, bent the pipe into a precise 90 degree angle but didnt break it...anything fiber is a very bad day for someone indeed. Locates seemed to be hit or miss, sometimes they are dead nuts, sometimes five feet off. Sometimes extra bonus surprises...
Worst I ever did was drill through a 50 pair telco line in a clients basement. Well, the sub did...
This one might take more than an impromptu sunday afternoon to fix through!
Completely obliterated a PLEXED (3 channels per pair) 600 pair feeding a JC Penny Call center. 9 million dollars in total damages.
Bad day for the locate guy, all we did was pull back 4 rods, roll 6 oclock, push 9 feet, drill out.