Gas pipe

[Riggerbear]

I hit a street lighting cable in London with a stump grinder a few years ago that was only 100mm down, tested the area with C.A.T before i started and found nothing. Complained that the cables should of been deeper and the D.N.O said that once the cable is buried they can not guarantee that they are at the required depth of 450mm. Cost me 6 hours sitting there waiting for them to turn up and £230. Made one hell of a bang !

[Mark Bolam]

I hit a street lighting cable in London with a stump grinder a few years ago that was only 100mm down, tested the area with C.A.T before i started and found nothing. Complained that the cables should of been deeper and the D.N.O said that once the cable is buried they can not guarantee that they are at the required depth of 450mm. Cost me 6 hours sitting there waiting for them to turn up and £230. Made one hell of a bang !

 

Have you ever heard such BS? Do the cables try and dig themselves out then?

I wouldn't have paid, mate.

[Matthew Arnold]

We've hit a high pressure water main cap 6 inches down. There was no cover on the main. There were covers doted around but our services map said it ran in the road. Was rather amusing as my colleague and i spent 15 mins removing the bar. We wished we hadnt as the iron bar was holding the cap in place. We were drenched by a 80 ft high jet of water. The local waterboard sorted it within the hour as it supplied most of the small town we were working in.

[Riggerbear]

Have you ever heard such BS? Do the cables try and dig themselves out then?

I wouldn't have paid, mate.

 

I know what you mean, i think the cable was never put down to the correct depth but thats what the letter said when i had a moan. Theres no way of proving these things afterwards though really.