Call BEFORE you dig!! Update: original link back in post

[Got Duc]

20 years of digging with a backhoe and or excavator and I am lucky and only grabbed one gas line.

It is scary. It is so easy for the company to mis mark the gas.

You don't even feel them either.

[NAKID]

Unless he was using a hydraulic post hole digger, there's no way that's what caused it...

[Oldfisti]

Unless he was using a hydraulic post hole digger, there's no way that's what caused it...

I was assuming it must have been a power auger attachment to a bobcat or something to bust a main that big. That being said, the remains of it would be somewhere. (not pictured)  Could a man operated power auger bust that?

[Got Duc]

Plastic pipes in my area. I am assuimg that might be the case for this as well.

[Triple J]

Plastic pipes in my area. I am assuimg that might be the case for this as well.

It looks like a steel pipe. Too large to be plastic (or HDPE which is what modern natural gas lines are made from).

This was a gas, as in petroleum main...not a natural gas line.  At least that is my understanding.

I agree...had to be a powered post hole digger of some sort. No way a handheld one ruptured that large of a pipe...plus it's too deep judging from the pics.

[Rameses]

No one was killed.

No one was using a posthole digger.

It was caused by corrosion.




http://www.wset.com/news/stories/1208/576137_video.html?ref=newsstory


http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/2884553


http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/local/article/a_view_from_above_appomattox_pipeline_explosion/8689/

[rgramjet]

No one was killed.

No one was using a posthole digger.

It was caused by corrosion.

Awwww, why'd ya have to ruin it with the facts???

[Rameses]

Awwww, why'd ya have to ruin it with the facts???

You kids'd had enough fun.

[Oldfisti]

Awwww, why'd ya have to ruin it with the facts???

"Facts are useless. They can be used to prove anything."     -  H. Simpson

[Oldfisti]

No one was killed.

No one was using a posthole digger.

It was caused by corrosion.




http://www.wset.com/news/stories/1208/576137_video.html?ref=newsstory


http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/2884553


http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/local/article/a_view_from_above_appomattox_pipeline_explosion/8689/

Thanks for the real scoop on this.   

[Grampa]

Mike Shanahan did it

[Oldfisti]

Mike Shanahan did it

He shot it?

[Grampa]

He shot it?

fired.... shot.... yup