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

[Oldfisti]

Something tells me the guy didn't survive this one...                 http://www.ehowa.com/features/callbeforeyoudig.shtml


From EHOWA:


Ernie - I work for a local Telephone/ISP and got these pics. You may or may not know about the law requiring you call for utility locating before you do any excavation. The pictures below are a result of a guy using a post hole digger with out calling for "locates" and he hit an underground cross county gas pipe. This happens all the time, just not to this extent. This is what a high pressure gas main is capable of. I remember one guy was just driving in a fence post and hit a telephone line. "It was only a fence post." Dumbass, call first! Anyway, this gives a new meaning to Call Before You Dig. Happy New Year and keep up the good work. Nick


   

   

   

   

[TiAvenger]

Jesus, put NSFW in the title......  it called me not 2 seconds after I clicked on the link and asked WTF I was looking at.

[derby]

Jesus, put NSFW in the title......  it called me not 2 seconds after I clicked on the link and asked WTF I was looking at.

didja show 'em? that's what i usually do.

(oh wait, i am the it deparment)

[Oldfisti]

Jesus, put NSFW in the title......  it called me not 2 seconds after I clicked on the link and asked WTF I was looking at.

Sorry it must be the EHOWA site that's on the IT blacklist. There's absolutely nothing NSFW about the pics. I'll redo the posting.

[TiAvenger]

Sorry it must be the EHOWA site that's on the IT blacklist. There's absolutely nothing NSFW about the pics. I'll redo the posting.

Its the ads and the "Want free PORN!" links.

[rgramjet]

Sumonabeach!

[Oldfisti]

Fixed.

[Grampa]

he blowed up good

[Triple J]

I can't see the pics...site must be blocked here at work.

But it seems strange that a post hole digger would be enough to rupture a cross country gas main.  Those are typically big steel pipes, and are fairly deep (at least by post hole digger standards). I've drilled borings by the one that runs from the San Francisco area to Reno. I refused to drill within about 200 feet of it...just in case the locate signs were off a bit.

I have dug up an illegal, unmarked 1/2" gas line...and drilled into a 12" high pressure water main where the locate was about 4 feet off. Oops...neither was too fun.  Gas and electricity are the scariest to drill/dig around. Fiber Optic is really scary too...but just because hitting one may put your company out of business!

[Oldfisti]

I can't see the pics...site must be blocked here at work.

But it seems strange that a post hole digger would be enough to rupture a cross country gas main.  Those are typically big steel pipes, and are fairly deep (at least by post hole digger standards). I've drilled borings by the one that runs from the San Francisco area to Reno. I refused to drill within about 200 feet of it...just in case the locate signs were off a bit.

I have dug up an illegal, unmarked 1/2" gas line...and drilled into a 12" high pressure water main where the locate was about 4 feet off. Oops...neither was too fun.  Gas and electricity are the scariest to drill/dig around. Fiber Optic is really scary too...but just because hitting one may put your company out of business!

I just put the original link back in. The pics showed in the thread on my computer until I closed the tab that the site was in.

[DesmoDiva]

Holy Cow!! 

[DY]

He musta got vaporized.  No way in hell he coulda survived that mushroom cloud of an explosion.

[Slag]

Well, at least it didn't hurt 

[wbeck257]

Yeah, that isn't a mistake you really make twice.

I work for a electrical util company so I have a pretty good, sometimes more than I really want to know, understanding of why you call before you dig. And I also know that the locates aren't always right, and we do not guartee depth. So always actualy physicaly locate and be careful digging.

[Triple J]

OK...I can see the pics from home now. Wow!