That culvert job on Elm Street took me 5 hours for a 30 minute run

I got called to run a new line under a driveway for a customer in a older neighborhood. The ground was pure clay and rocks, and my trencher kept hitting these buried field stones nobody marked. I ended up having to hand dig the last 12 feet because the machine just couldn't cut it. Took me from 9 AM until almost 2 PM to get maybe 30 feet of conduit in the ground. Has anyone else dealt with unmarked debris that just completely kills your schedule?

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alex_coleman2d ago

Went through the exact same thing last spring on a job over in Oakwood. I was running a new line for a shed and hit a buried concrete slab about 18 inches down that nobody marked. No idea what it was, maybe an old patio or something. Took me an extra two hours just to chip through it with a demolition hammer and haul out the chunks by hand. Gets under your skin when the schedule goes out the window because of stuff like that. Really makes you question how thorough these locate services actually are.

henry_kelly541d ago

Bet those locators just skim the surface and call it a day, huh?