OT: CALL - Before You Drill!

kruser · May 16, 2012

We do vertical 8 to 12 inch borings BUT wonder if these guys ever hit something from time to time!

Oh ya, PeoRia, Illinoiz

Tramway Guy · May 16, 2012

I can assure that they can and do. Right in front of our house, a crew drilled across under a road and hit a gas main. Was exciting. They were putting a connection in for city water.

Russ from MN · May 16, 2012

They sure did in St Cloud MN a few years ago! They hit a natural gas line under the sidewalk and a nearby basement filled up with gas. When it ignited it leveled about 3 buildings and there were at least 2 deaths.

MSD · May 16, 2012

I've seen pictures in one of the construction magazines I get showing where they bored right through a sewer main line.

NCWayne · May 16, 2012

The bad thing about the ones that do this are the ones putting in gas lines. There have been several instances of that happening and then the plumber called a year down the road, to unclog the line, cut into theb gas line causing an explosion. According to the trade mags I get several cities have put finding problems like this at the top of their list of things needing done, and some are actually doing it on a regular basis both on old bores as well as double checking new bores.

JMS/.MN · May 16, 2012

I remember that- just north of downtown, near the cty courthouse. Maybe late 80s, early 90s? Anyway, lawsuit was settled not too many years ago. I did have a horizontal boring crew do a job some years ago- ran a culvert under a road to connect two ditches. Interesting machine to watch, and how they use electronic sensor while going under the road, can detect location, direction, up/down angle of the boring bit. Sewer project here a few years ago- they went under a lake, middle of winter, about a quarter mile.....guy carrying the sensor walked on the ice to monitor progress.

Anonymous-0 · May 17, 2012

'Call before you drill" I learned that the bad way. Day after augering for an cementing in fence posts,telephone repairman knocked on our door and informed me that I had drilled right through the neighborhood trunk line! I didn't call cuz I was on my property.

Richard from SE AZ · May 17, 2012

"Call before you drill" I learned that the bad way. Day after augering for an cementing in fence posts,telephone repairman knocked on our door and informed me that I had drilled right through the neighborhood trunk line! I didn"t call cuz I was on my property.

ericlb · May 17, 2012

they do, and its not always there fault, back in the 1980's our company was repaving the roads in a subdivision, included in the job was replacing damaged culverts and driveway aprons, the excavator hit a phone line, not a residential phone line, but the main trunk line about 8 to 10 inches in diameter, i dont know how many pair of phone lines was in there but probably several hundred, the repair cost was estimated at around 55,000 dollars, BUT what saved the company, the phone company had been out and clearly marked their lines location... 3 feet away , so it was on them and they had to fix it themselves

Ralph Bauer · May 18, 2012

Do keep in mind that the lo cater service that marks lines of any kind only stands behind it for 10 days. If you need more time than that, call on day 8 (they got 48 hrs to do it) so you are legit and don't have to pay, even if it is clearly marked wrong. Info is accurate in at least OK, check your local quirks.....!

NEBeef · May 18, 2012

That's kinda strange. Don't know how it is out there, but around here stuff that buried doesn't seem to move around much... ;^)

rockyridgefarm · May 18, 2012

(quoted from post at 04:43:53 05/18/12)
That's kinda strange. Don't know how it is out there, but around here stuff that buried doesn't seem to move around much... ;^)

The line may not move, but flags have a way of going home with children....

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