When you think of cable and pipe locating, it is highly likely that this is the locating technique you are thinking of.
And these are just the main ones. There are many more, but regardless of what people call them, they all achieve the same goal, which is to locate the underground power cable, water pipe, telephone cable, gas pipe or any other underground ‘conductive’ (as in it is made up of some kind of metal material) buried utility that you are trying to locate.
Still not sure if this is the locating method you need? Well, it’s actually a pretty straight forward technique, but rather than try and explain it in more detail and or break down the science behind it all, probably the best way for us to show you what it is and how it works is with this video of us out on site, using a cable and pipe locator to locate an underground phone cable
Now, of course in this video, we were locating a telephone cable, but this equipment can be used to locate, power and electrical cables (both high and low voltage), irrigation cables, satellite TV cables, signal cables, lighting cables, and actually not just cables – this gear can also do water pipes, gas pipes, oil pipelines, fuel pipelines, basically any type of pipe or cable, just
If the pipes are of a larger diameter then we can use other similar methods, just with different equipment to locate them, such as CCTV cameras that we can drive up the pipes, or use sondes, which are
self-contained transmitters.
But if you do need to locate large diameter sewer or drainage pipes, then it’s probably best to get in touch with us and we can go through it with you in more detail, as each case will be different and should be discussed individually to get the best outcome.
If you want to get a better idea of what we are talking about when we say fibreglass push rod, the video here from a job we did in Colac, shows the method used to locate an optical fibre cable.