Watch as Ben Minutoli, of Geelong Cable Locations, goes through and performs a full locate at a customer's property.
Ben takes you through each step of the process he carries out on site and explains what methods he uses to locate each particular underground utility and why he uses that method for the buried pipe or cable he’s trying to find.
The recording was completed live at a real customer's property—so, as you’ll see, not everything goes to plan and there are some utilities he has difficulties locating.
But it’s probably a good job to have filmed, as it does highlight the truth about cable locating: that we can’t always locate every single service on every job site we work at. A lot of it is out of our hands as it depends a lot on what material the utilities are made out of and the site conditions they’re buried in. (As well as a range of other factors that we won't go into here.)
And of course, the other advantage to recording a job like this, where some services are harder to locate than others, is that you get to see first hand the range of different equipment we bring out to each and every site where we work. You can see the techniques we use with them to locate the different underground services.
If you have any questions about a particular technique or equipment that we used on the site, then feel free to contact Ben through the office on 1800 449 543.
Or if you’d just like to leave a general comment or have a bit of a discussion, then feel free to leave a comment below and Ben or one of us will respond back to you when we’re next free.
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www.geelongcablelocations.com.au
Geelong Cable Locations are the experts to call when you need to know where underground cables and pipes are buried.
We service Geelong, Melbourne and Country Victoria.
We offer:
- Electromagnetic Field Locating (also known as digital locating, or just cable locating)
- Ground Penetrating Radar
- Non-Destructive Digging (also known as hydro excavation, or vacuum excavation, or even just known as NDD)
- Concrete scanning
- Acoustic locating (perfect for locating poly water pipes)
- Drafting
- GPS plotting
- Project management
We’ve been in business since 1998, making us one of the oldest and most experienced service locating companies in Victoria.
Our manager Ben Minutoli was the first in Victoria to obtain his Dial Before You Dig certification and, to date, we’re still the only company in Victoria to have multiple technicians within the company who are DBYD certified (if you don't know, that’s the highest level of certification for a locator in Australia).
Actually, if you don't know about the Dial Before You Dig certification you can find out more about it here, at a blog post Ben wrote when it first came out: https://geelongcablelocations.com.au/dial-before-you-dig-certified-locator/
And you can also read more about it on another blog post he wrote 12 months after it was started, as well as some tips on how to know which locator to pick to come out to your site: https://geelongcablelocations.com.au/dbyd-certification-is-the-underground-utility-locator-you-use-accredited/
If you have a question about either of those blog posts or, better still, if we can be of any assistance to you with any of your locating needs—or even if you’d just like to discuss a project you’re working on—then feel free to call us toll-free on 1800 449 543.
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