Hey guys.
So, I've been creating videos now for about 2 years.
Back when I started doing videos as a cable locator
the reason why I did videos is because it was easier for me to explain to people
what we do, different aspects of the job visually by video.
It was just, yeah, I found it a lot easier.
At the start when I was doing it people said to me don't do video
you stutter, you um and ah a lot.
You curse.
And a range of other things they said to me not do it but I still persisted and I've
we've now got a 130 odd videos up on Facebook and YouTube
and I'm starting to put them on Linkedin.
As a locator, we always have issues on site oh not always
but there's a lot of times where we have issues on site
where we can't locate the service and they said
if you record everything you do if someone hits something or if someone
comes across something that you didn't locate then you'll look like a fool.
Then your reputation will be shot.
Then you'll be exposed.
And I always dismissed that, I said "That's the whole point".
"Put this on video so people see every the whole aspect of it".
So they see everything So they understand
So they can get a better picture of it.
That was two years ago and 130 videos later .....
And it's happened.
We went out to do a job I filmed the whole job.
Did the whole thing, it was all brilliant.
All good.
Few little issues on site as you have.
I then get a call that they've found a power cable
I did not locate.
So I could have, now I've told people about this incident
and they've said don't publish this video.
Let it go.
It's only between you and the guy no-one else knows.
Let it go.
I said "no".
I want to still publish this video.
So I actually did two parts of this video.
I've got Part 1 which is just me going out doing a job
and then Part 2 I've gone out and filmed me trying to locate
this cable see if I could locate it the second time
and doing a bit of review about the whole process
and so forth.
So, I know I'm going to get hammered in the comments.
I know those out there understand the cable locating industry
those that I won't say naive those that just don't understand what we do
or how we do it and different issues we have on site
will think that I'm a shit locator
will think that there's issues
will think will not use me
which isn't an issue for me.
So, I've been advised not to do this
But I'm going to do it anyway.
Guys, this video that I'm about to publish now
So I did create it at Christmas/New Year last year.
Well, last year/this year.
And then we've taken a little while to edit it and and so forth.
But, let me know what you think.
Alright, have a watch.
Good morning everyone.
Hope you're well.
I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year.
It's actually not New Year yet.
It's the 27th of December today.
But I'm guessing by the time we get to edit this video
and post it online and the rest of it you'll probably be watching this in the
New Year so I'll just say Happy New Year now.
I'm heading off to a job.
We are actually on I guess you'd call it a Christmas break.
So no-one else is working.
Yeah, so no one else is working at the moment.
We normally have between Christmas and New Year off
and probably a couple of weeks including that.
Unless there's shutdown work.
Occasionally every now and then there will
be some shutdown work that we'll do.
Or a major project say a new train line or new road or something like that.
The main jobs we do in between
The main times that the main jobs we do in between the Christmas and New Year break
and that period is schools.
And that's what I'm off to today.
I'm going off to a school do some locating.
Obviously because that's when there's no kids there.
So that's when the majority of the works happen at schools
is over the Christmas break.
So that is what we're up to today.
So just me.
And I'll be going out and seeing what they're up to
and hopefully it shouldn't be a too big of a day.
It's meant to be 36 degrees today.
So it's going to be a hot one.
I ever do, I find I only ever do films when it's cold.
When it's real cold and you see me in beanies and jackets
or when it's real bloody hot.
So we'll see how we go.
Alright, I'm going to hit this road and we'll talk soon.
Bye.
Okay.
So it's only early but it's already starting to warm up.
The client's not here yet.
But, I've just rang him and gone through the job.
It's going to be a hot one today.
It's heating up already so I'm just going to get started.
I've got a fair idea what they're up to so and there's power, water, storm water, possibly
gas in the way already I can see.
It's actually not a big area, considering it's a school, it shouldn't take too long.
It will still take me a few hours but yeah I'm not going to hang around.
I'm going to get started.
So, let's get into it.
I think I'll locate the power first and we'll go from there.
Let's go.
Orange for power.
Actually before I pack up let me show you where it was.
So it comes down along, over into, so it comes from the pole
that's it heading down the pole there into the switchboard, the main switchboard,
from there let's go over this fence again.
Down here under the bushes.
See her in there?
So orange is power that's it just there.
The reason why we use orange is power is that's the same colour
as the conduit, or should be the same colour as the conduit - generally.
And that's the Australian Standards also.
So they want to use orange.
And it comes from there, over into the building there.
Pretty straightforward.
Those bushes are a pain when you've got shorts on.
What was I saying?
Yeah, pretty straightforward Nothing special, nothing out of the ordinary.
If we had to find the power to the other buildings it would be a bit harder
But when it's come in - oh get over this fence again
When it's coming straight from the pole from the switchboard
to the building, yeah, they're pretty simple to find.
Alright, let's pack up and move on to the water.
We use red because it's fire service.
I said before, water, when I say water, I mean fire service.
Let's hope it's conductive.
If it's not conductive I'm not going to be able to locate it with the locator.
But let's give it a go.
Damn shit.
So, I can't locate it. Which tells me it's plastic.
So, I've got the acoustic locator and the ground penetrating radar in the car.
I'm going to try both of those and see if we can find it.
This is the annoying part of doing it during out of school hours.
You don't happen to have any plans at all do you?
Alright guys, I'm back.
Sorry about that.
I just wanted to see if he had any plans.
So what I was saying.
This is the annoying part of coming out of school hours
Normally, I mean, the school's not that old.
So you'd think they'd have some underground plans of where the services were.
One of the arguments we always have people say to us "Oh, we've got plans, but
they're not accurate".
I don't care if they're accurate or not accurate.
I don't care if they're from the 1930's.
I don't care when they are.
Give us a guide and it helps us.
It makes it a lot easier if we have a guide of where you think they should be going.
But anyway.
Anyway, I'm just ranting on.
I hate when I can't find services.
So, I'm going to leave it for now.
I'm going to try to locate the other conductive services that are here
and then I'll come back and try the acoustic on it or the ground penetrating radar.
This wind might stuff up the acoustic but we'll see how we go.
The GPR is going to be difficult to work in there.
Let's just see what happens.
So down here there's a copper pipe, you see where I am at the moment
I don't know if it's water or gas.
So what I'm going to do, I'm going to hook onto it and see where it goes.
So, although you see copper up there, copper the whole way down
once it gets underground it turns to plastic.
This is where a lot of people get confused.
They say to us "No it's definitely copper - we can see its copper".
Ah yeah, it's copper on the wall but as soon as it gets down underground it turns to plastic.
Damn shit.
Alright, let's keep going.
Let's see what else we can find.
I think there's going to be a few unknowns here.
Okay, so that is everything that I can see on the ground or coming out of walls
as in any pipes coming out of walls any services, any pits that are in the area
that we can locate.
So there are some stormwater downpipes I can see
so I'll try rodding them later.
What I want to do first though have a look at this.
So, this building here
we found how power gets from the street
to the switchboard
from the switchboard to the building.
So I know how power gets to there.
But what I don't know is how does the power get to this building here.
So see how this building here is all round there and there's a little walkway in between
but is the power overhead going into that building.
If we have a look above the roof you can see see the water pipe here going over along there
and that water pipe feeds the air-conditioners
as well but I can't see any power conduits.
So, there could be underground power from here going this way.
We don't actually know.
We don't know how they get power.
So, what I want to do.
I want to look around and see how I'm going to have a walk around see if I can
see how power gets in see if I can find a power point to hook onto.
Just do a bit of due diligence I guess you'd call it
and try to work out where does it get it's feed from.
Okay, there's a conduit under there.
That doesn't look like a power conduit though.
It looks quite small.
Could that be how communication gets there or an alarm system maybe.
Where's it going to?
Oooh, what's on this side?
Here we go.
This looks bigger.
There we are.
I reckon that's her.
That's either comms or power.
Let's go for a walk.
Alright, so it's power.
So that is how the power gets to uh, here we go
Oh no.
I'm going to grab the ladder and have look in it
and see what's actually going on in there.
Alright guys.
No good there.
That was communication going between those two buildings.
At least now I know how communication gets rom one building to the other.
I've still got to find how communication gets to this main building
but yeah, we'll get to that.
But I've still got to find power.
How does power get to that building?
One of the buildings here, one of the rooms here is open, it's unlocked.
So what I'm going to do, I'm going to hook onto the power point in the room.
Hopefully the power is on, turned on and that should give me power in there to
find it crossing over.
Let's see how we go.
Let's see where we go.
There she is.
60 milliamps.
That is her.
So that's going to be right in their area of works.
Right where they're digging.
So, yeah, it's just a matter of working out.
There's no other building here.
It's got to get power.
Where's the power come from.
If we didn't do that, if all we located was the power from the street to that building
they would have gone straight through the sky.
I'm going to get some orange paint and mark this one up.
Alright, here we go.
Yeah, so I found the power exactly where it goes which is good.
It actually sort of makes sense now.
So they've come straight out better still, let me show you.
Alright, so you see the orange marks - that's the power cable there.
So it comes straight out from the building out along here, right to the end.
Have a look through here.
I wonder when they put this fence in if they knew, I'll just put this bag down.
I wonder if when they put this fence in if they knew there was a power cable there
because it goes right under here, under through that way there.
It's about 500 deep.
So these posts are going to be pretty close to it I reckon.
Let me show you from another angle.
Look at that.
There's at least, well there's only one post close to it.
I mean who knows, they might have had locations and they might have hand dug it
and known where it is but I doubt it.
So, she comes up, through there, turns over that way and then goes over to the switchboard
that we were at earlier.
Now I've found it, it all makes sense where they are.
Yeah, another one done.
Now, that's power completely finished.
What I wanted to find now though now that I've found the comms, get my paint.
Now that I've found comms between the buildings I want to find how the comms gets into the
main building, into the main school.
I'm thinking it's going to be out the front here somewhere.
I'll have a look at some Telstra pit, some Telstra plans first.
See where Telstra say they come in.
So schools always have an optic fibre going in and a copper cable.
Well, actually, modern schools, some modern schools probably won't have copper cable
they probably only have optic fibre.
This one here will have copper and optic coming into it.
So, I'm just going to see if I can find
fix the paint up
see if I can find where they come from.
Then once I know where it's coming from I can work out
if it's in the way and needs to be relocated or if it's outside the area.
So, let's look at some plans.
Okay, so I have a carrier so it's NBN coming in up here.
Direct buried in the street huh, there we go.
So this is where some people get tricked out.
So when you look at Telstra plans there are two lots of Telstra plans.
You got main plans and you got local plans.
The main plans have all the optic fibre on it,
the big conduits, that sort of stuff.
The local stuff has the local stuff on it, all the small cables and so forth.
And looking at the plans it says the optic fibre comes in up that way
but down this way more is where the local telephones come in from.
So you've got a well it doesn't say anymore.
Since NBN took over they don't actually say what sort of cable it is.
I'm assuming it would be a 10 pair maybe a 30 pair for a school coming in down that way.
So, I'm going to grab the Telstra pit lifter, get my glasses
go for a bit of a walk, see what I can find.
Got my gloves.
I think I'll leave you here, so I've got two hands and I'll talk to you later.
Okay, so I've found the optic fibre.
The main plan was right.
The local plan was wrong.
Telstra plans wrong?
No, can't be.
So, come for a walk, I'll show you the optic and Telstra come in together
and it looks like they might be in the area where they're working.
So, let's locate exactly where they are and we know for certain then.
White for communication.
Let's go and have a look.
So, this is the area they're working in.
Right here.
And, have a look in here.
The blue one is the optic fibre and right there is where they're coming in.
So I reckon they're going to be coming in that way there
or coming in and up there.
Or coming in and then going up there.
Let's put the locator on it and see where it takes us.
That's it.
All done.
So, let me show you.
I haven't bothered marking out here because they're not digging out here.
But it comes from the pit, down here, turns there and comes over, right on the edge here
and then comes in over there.
And it is roughly 400mm deep.
Just there.
It comes in and I can't get the exact point but it's roughly about there where it comes
into the building.
Okay, so that is power done.
That is communication all done.
Gas I found at the back of the school so it is away from where they're working.
Which is good.
Stormwater we've still got to go.
Water.
Now I want to find where the water meter is.
See if well, if the fire service is not copper, not conductive
then I, just turn this off.
Then I highly suspect the water is not going to be conductive either.
But I still want to find the water meter at least so I can find where it comes from.
And then work out and then they'll hook onto it anyway.
Even though I reckon it's not going to be conductive
it's still worth hooking onto it for all the 5 minutes it takes
I'll give it a go.
Alright, so the question now is where is the water meter.
I've walked down this length of the road or the boundary I should say
and I haven't seen it anywhere around there.
So I'm thinking, we are on a corner block so it could be on the other street.
So, I'm going to put my gear down here and I'm going to go for a walk and see
see if I can find where she is.
Alright guys, so let me show you another issue we have on some of these sites.
So, over here we've got a stormwater pit.
There's a stormwater pit just here.
Luckily, one of the guys in the offices had a plan,
he's been able to show me a plan of where it goes.
According to the plan it goes from, come over here.
There's a stormwater pit just there, you can see it.
So from that stormwater pit there it runs along here to that stormwater pit
there and then it goes that way.
If he didn't have the plan I wouldn't have known, well actually even
though he's got the plan I still don't know 100% definitely that that
is what it does.
For all I know it could come here and go that way as well and that way.
Problem is, look at the size of that pit.
So you see the sides of it, I weigh about 70 kilos
and there is no way in nome I'm going to be able to lift that guy by myself.
Even two people, even if I had someone else here helping me
I still would not be able to lift it.
We need to get an excavator in here.
An excavator that can lift it with a bucket or some sort of crane or some other method.
We do have a, what would you call it.
A magnetic lifter that we use and a vacuum lifter that we use
for lifting heavy stuff.
But that one there would not get up.
So, it's just one of those jobs that one of those issues that we have on this job
that there are some stuff that we know should be in the area
but we just can't locate it.
If he had an excavator here I'd ask him to lift it
or for now I'm just going to tell him that I know there is stormwater there.
I reckon it goes from there to there, there to there
because of what the plan says and from what I've seen on site.
So I've gone for a walk, I've seen the stormwater pit over there.
I haven't seen anything over that side over there.
I've seen where it goes that way there.
So I'm confident where it is but I can't get a depth for him.
I can't locate it, I can't get any details.
I might be able to put a camera.
I might be able to get one of those little snake cameras
and put a camera down in the hole if I can get enough light in there
and see where it is and get a guide that way.
So, there's a few other little ways we can do it.
But it is still an issue that when I leave here today
I'm not going to be able to locate where it goes.
I'm not going to be able to know where it is.
So, it's just one of the issues we have on site.
Alright, thought I'd show you that one.
So, anyway, so far we've found the power, two different powers coming in,
both will be in the area they're working in.
We found the optic fibre and telephone in the area they're working.
So, all we've got left to do now.
So I've still got stormwater.
Well, as I said I can't do the stormwater.
I've still got sewer to do.
Let me show you over here the sewer.
So, see this pipe just here.
That is a sewer pipe.
So the sewer goes down into there.
See, yeah not sure
I can't see on the camera how much you can see from that.
So I know the sewer goes down into that but the sewer should be heading down that
side of the school.
It won't be heading this way because there's no sewer pits up here.
But it will be heading down there.
So, it's got to get from there that way.
Does it go under the building, does it come out this way and that way.
If it comes out in here then it's going to be in the area they're working.
If it goes straight that way then it's going to be ok.
So, I'm going to try and rod that.
See if I can locate that still.
I've still got to try and find this guy.
Find how the fire service hooks in with the hydrant.
For all I know the hydrant might run straight down there
and this guy might come over beside from there.
Now, I might actually do that one now, the hydrant
because the hydrant is probably more important.
Well, they're both important.
Probably more of an issue if they hit that.
So what I'm going to do.
We've got acoustic locator.
We've got ground penetrating radar to try and locate it.
The acoustic locator, the issue I have out here, being a school with the acoustic locator
is you need to turn it on and water pumps out of the pipe.
So, you've got to turn it on, water flows out of it.
There's been no-one at school today so I can't ask them.
What I want to find out is there an alarm system.
Just come under this tree.
Sorry, it's getting hot so I'm getting underneath the tree.
What I want to find out from them is there an alarm system.
What I don't want to happen is turn it on and the Fire Brigade to get an alarm at their
headquarters and say there must be a fire here because
someone's using the fire hydrant, they all come out to put the fire out.
There's no fire.
I end up having to pay for the firefighters to come out.
So, I've asked the client is there an alarm system on it.
He's going to find out, he's not sure.
So I'll leave the acoustic locator for now.
I'm going to try the ground penetrating radar.
See if we can locate it with the ground penetrating radar.
I don't reckon we're going to have much luck.
Just because of the area.
If that was over there I'd have more room to walk around.
It would be ok.
Where it is there's not much room there.
I'm going to struggle with it I think.
But hey, we need to find it.
I'm going to give it a go.
Just to see if I can find it and see and at least this way I can mark, I can tick it
off that I've at least tried.
Alright, let's get the GPR out now.
So, I can get something over there.
That thing there's in the way so I can't move it
so I can't do a radar run through here.
I can get something through there but it's not making sense because I can't
get it turning in.
So it should be coming out about that way there and I can't get anything.
For all I know the soil might be different over there to what it is over here.
This is a path.
So this is made of crushed rock compared to soil over there.
So it is a different soil.
I can't get anything up the top.
So, not good results.
Alright, let's try something else.
Alright, so what I'm going to do now I'm going to come and see if I can find this
stormwater pipe in the footpath.
I don't know if I'll be able to penetrate the reo in the footpath
but I'll give it a go.
Alright, so that's it with the ground penetrating radar.
Can't really do much more with it.
Next I'm going to try and rod that sewer pipe.
Let's go do that.
I can't actually get the reel into the pipe so I've got a feeling the pipe might be blocked.
So I'm just going to run the water for a little bit
and see, I guess to confirm if I'm right or not.
I guess if the water goes, rises up then it's blocked.
So I'm going to try a different reel.
I don't reckon this one's going to work but we'll give it a go.
Yeah, so as I suspected.
Can't get that reel down there.
I didn't think I would but anyway.
Alright, next one to try is stormwater.
I'm going to try and put the reel down this one here if I can get it in there.
Down this one here if I can get it in there.
I'm sure it's going to be going up to there.
But let's just see if we can get an alignment for them.
Hey guys.
Okay.
So the camera battery went flat again.
So I'm using the phone hence why it's probably a bit shaky.
Sorry about that.
But I thought I'd just do one more last video to wrap up out here.
So, no luck with that guy.
So I've tried, trying to see.
I tried the rod in that.
Can't get it.
I'm pretty confident it runs straight up that way there.
But yeah, can't locate where she goes.
So I've gone through it with the client explained the details.
Let me just try and get out of the shade.
Hang on a sec guys.
So yeah, so I've gone through and explained to the client what we have located
what we haven't located.
The big issue out here for him that I see is that fire service.
So, the fire hydrant right there is the one we can't locate.
And that is the one that he's going to have issues with
because he's going to dig right next to that.
So I said we can come back with hydro excavator, dig down and tell him where it is.
All I want to see is the bottom of it.
See where it goes down, see where it goes to.
I reckon it's heading that way.
But I just want to see the bottom.
Because he's going to dig this side of the pipe.
So the pipes there, he's going to dig on this side of the pipe.
And I just want to make sure that's not going to be where he's digging.
So I said we can come back with a hydro excavator.
He said no, he's ok.
He's going to dig down by hand.
Which is good.
As long as he does dig by hand.
You get a lot of guys that will start digging, get bored, get tired
and then they'll grab the excavator out and start
digging with the excavator.
But now it's in his hands.
I'm wiping my hand of it.
Wiping my hand of it.
I'm yeah, I've explained to him the details and that's it.
And he's taken now to decide how he wants to do it.
I've given him my advice which is dig by hand or we come back with the hydro excavator.
Anyway, so that's it.
I'm going to walk around now and take some photos
and I think I might call it a day.
This is the last job we've got for today.
I might go have a few beers.
Actually, I'll see what the kids are up to.
Might take them to the beach.
Alright guys.
Hope you've all had a lovely Christmas.
When you're probably seeing this most of you will probably still be on holidays
so enjoy the rest of your holidays and we'll chat on the next job.
Who knows, I might have a few more schools to do these holidays.
Alright, talk soon.
Bye.
Okay guys, so normally that would be it.
That would be the end of my videos.
I'd publish them online and yeah we'd move onto the next video.
But, shortly after doing that video, after finishing that job I should say.
We found, they, the client went and did his digging
and he came across a power cable I did not locate.
Yes, it does happen.
A lot of guys would not do a video and tell you this and go through this.
But it does happen, there are occasionally times where they come across stuff
that we don't locate.
So we are now at the end of January and I've been waiting.
I wanted to find out more information.
I want to find out where this cable was.
Why did I miss it.
What's going on.
I wanted to find out some more details about it.
So that's why we've not published this video yet.
That's why when you're seeing this video I would hopefully have more info.
Would've hopefully had more info.
I haven't heard anymore.
So what I'm going to do, I'm going to head out to site.
I'm going to head out there myself and have a look around.
So, I thought I'd grab the camera and do a Part 2 of this video.
Let's see why was this cable missed.
What was going on.
I had a feeling that this school was going to be issues
because of the situation the way it was.
But anyway, come out to site.
Let's go for a drive and see what's going on out there.
So I don't really need to head out to site to have a look at it.
I mean, we did everything right.
We informed the client well beforehand that the service we offer is just a guide.
We can't guarantee that we will definitely locate everything.
We do this for all our clients.
We explain to them well in advance.
Give it to them in writing and tell them well in advance.
Most of them know that the service we provide is a guide.
We can't guarantee that we'll definitely locate everything
but we'll do our best and I'm pretty sure we do better than most others would do out there.
But anyway, but I still want to get out there.
I still want to go have a look to see what it was.
I mean, I can always learn.
I've been doing this for many, many years now.
But we never stop learning so I want to learn from this experience
and see what it was.
So yeah, for me, it's just mainly going out just to get a better idea
of what went wrong, what the go was and find out
yeah what we can do to improve and what I can tell the other guys so that they know
so that they can improve themselves also.
So because we can always learn from these incidents and don't get me wrong
they didn't cut it, no-one was hurt.
There was no issue out there.
But I still want to go out and have a look.
See what's going on.
Alright guys.
So we're now on site.
I've actually just had a look around and let me run through the situation with you.
Actually before we do that.
Got to give credit to the landscaper, he's done a great job.
Do you remember what this place looked like just under a month ago?
So this was the entrance coming in.
Look how good it looks now.
Well done to the either the landscaper or the landscape architect.
He's done a brilliant job.
It looks really good out here.
Alright, so let me run through and show you the situation.
Alright, so right about there is where the power cable was.
So there's a power cable coming and it's coming in this direction here.
That was not located.
So it was not located out here.
I did not locate it.
I admit.
We did not locate it, we did not know that was there.
Let me give you a bigger rundown so you get a better picture of the whole scenario.
Okay so do you remember power pole, switchboard, switchboard and power
going from, sorry there was power going from the switchboard
to the office over through there.
There was another one over through there coming up this way here.
It was coming up through here and do you remember it was going down to that building over there.
Because, let me see if I can get a better view.
Hang on.
That's a bit better.
Remember I had the issue out here, we knew how power was getting to that lot of buildings
but we didn't know how the power was getting to this side of the buildings.
We couldn't work out how power was getting to this.
And then we worked out that the power was coming underground there
coming up through here and then going back over to that switchboard.
Well, the issue is this was built at different stages which we didn't realise
or even put different power on.
So the power that feeds that is a different lot of power that feeds that.
Look at the stadium there.
And now in hindsight it's all good.
We can work this out and it ends all fine.
But in hindsight the power that goes to the stadium comes down right through there
right here and heads back to that switchboard.
So that switchboard is actually got another feed coming into it.
So now that is all gone, now that everything's gone here
and we've got a better idea of it all.
And now again in hindsight, now that we know the situation that is the issue.
That's the power cable that was not located.
So yeah, again, hindsight, it's lovely now that we've seen the bigger picture
we can see that this building here has got a separate feed to it.
It's got a separate power cable going to it.
And again, now that I stand back and look at it
that makes sense to me that they'd have a separate feed going into it.
Well sort of makes sense to me.
Instead of having a switchboard in this other building with the power going off to that.
So, hindsight.
It's a lovely thing.
I guess it's another lesson that I can teach my guys
and you guys that are locators that are watching.
Something for you guys to learn.
It's actually.
Alright, let's reverse roles for a sec.
I do a few investigations of other misses, near misses
and other cables that people hit that other locators have been out to.
Let's put the shoes on the other foot.
Alright, if I came out to, let say I've come out to this job.
Someone else has been the locator, not me, someone else has been the locator
and what would have been my recommendations, what should they have done.
So, what I would have said to the locator what
they should have done is open up the switchboard, have a look in there
and see if there's any plans in there of where the services go and see if there's
any details in there of and if you can see on there a separate feed
So let's go have, let's go open the switchboard and see what we've got in there.
Let me show you on camera so you can see what I would have recommended they have done.
Here's the meter.
Open this guy.
Milton Street Grade 1 & 2 building.
So it's got, so you can see here it's got, it shows a power cable going over there.
High Street.
So, Milton Street's over that way.
So we're facing, so that one there's out of the area.
What have we got in here.
Only one.
You can't see any details in here of a separate cable feed going over to there
or any other details.
That's alright though.
That's one side.
That's only the electricity meter.
The main switchboard is really what we want.
Have a look in here.
Alright, over here we've got.
Bannockburn Primary School Admin Building that actually doesn't show the power going
over to that but that's alright.
It does show another cable going over to the Eco Centre.
So that's going down over there.
That was out of the area of works.
And that one there we'd need to worry about.
And over here we've got one, two.
So one would have been for the Admin building.
And two would have been for them.
Again, no more details.
We're not allowed to open up these ones here to get into that.
That's, ideally you would want to get into that if you had an electrician on site
you would want to get into that and see how many cables coming out in the ground.
But wait, there's more.
Let's open up this one here.
Can't really see any details in here.
That's empty.
It might have been a switchboard there once.
And this guy is what we want.
It's locked.
So what I would have told the locator, what I would have done in my investigative report
is said they should have had an electrician out on site.
An electrician should have accessed, given full access to the switchboard
an authorised, a PowerCor representative on site or electrician on site
to give full access to the switchboard so we could see
how many conduits and cables coming in and going out.
One would be going in and see how many were going out.
And then what you would have worked out is how many do you have going out
where they are all going and hook on each one.
That's number one of what you would have done.
Number two I would have said is get some plans.
Have a look at some school, at the plans of the school.
Even if the plans aren't accurate.
Even if they're, yeah, if they're not accurate at all it doesn't matter
but find out where the feed is coming from.
Oh sorry, are the buildings, do the buildings have separate feeds.
So on the plans hopefully would have said that building there was built at a separate date.
Even if it said a different date on that to the other building
or if there was a separate plan for that one I would have said building, different date
okay that means it going to be, could have a separate feed going to it.
So you'd look for a, yeah, plans, even if they don't have offsets of where it goes
or any details like that if you saw that they had separate power going to it
then you'd know okay, you've got to locate it.
That's number two.
Number three.
Blind scans.
Now, we did blind scans on the day.
Didn't pick anything up.
Unfortunately for blind scans it all depends where you walk.
If you're walking over the cable, so I just ran power mode over this area now
and down where we know where it is and of course it shows up.
I can find it.
I can now locate the cable.
Before, we didn't walk in that exact area, because we didn't walk in that exact area
we did not locate it.
So yeah, my recommendation would have been again,
if I'm not the locator, I am the locator out here
but if I was out on site investigating, putting an incident report in
and investigating this I would have said make sure you get an electrician to open up
the switchboard so you to get full access to it.
Make sure you look at the plans.
Actually, I would have added in talk to the principal, talk to anyone at school,
talk to the maintenance guy talk to anyone that's got any knowledge of
the area.
And then, what was the last one.
And then do blind scans.
Make sure you do it all properly.
I mean yeah, all well and good now, now that there's nothing out here.
Now it's all good area I can run through and I know there's a cable there
to do a blind scan now.
No issues.
Again, on the day when we did it.
It didn't show up.
So guys, yeah that's it really.
I just wanted to come out more for my peace of mind
so I could see what was going on.
What do I take from this?
I did ask, well, look I don't want to say excuses.
I'm not here to justify myself.
Most locators wouldn't even do a video.
Wouldn't even tell you guys of mistakes they've made.
As most of you have seen from my other videos I don't hold back.
I share everything with you guys.
The good and the bad and the ugly.
And yeah, I've got nothing to hide.
I don't do these videos to sell my services we're busy enough as it is.
I'm not doing this to try and get more business so I don't think we're going to lose business
from this hit.
From this hit, from this near miss.
I think it's more just an educational thing.
To explain to people why do we need to get access to all buildings.
If that was unlocked, If I could hook onto a power
remember how I went into that building and hooked onto the power cable.
Well if I hooked onto a power point in there as well
I would have been able to find it this other guy.
So, I might use this video myself actually.
I might send it to clients when they say we can't get access to buildings
we can't get plans, we can't get other details to show why we want to get plans
why we want to talk to principals or talk to maintenance guys or
talk to anyone that knows anything about schools anyone who's been there for a while.
Why we want to get, have an electrician on site.
Unfortunately this one didn't.
So, I don't know if I, can't remember if I said it in the other video
they're changing ownerships of the school.
It's going from a State School to a Private School.
So that's why the plans were gone although one of the builders did have a plan.
I'll just get out of this wind.
So yeah, unfortunately with this site the person that we were working for
he was working for someone else that again, didn't have access
to anything at the school so it was a bit of a
I always knew that there was going to be an issue here.
You know you get those feelings and that's why yeah
explain in detail that guys, we've done everything we can
we've done all we can do but please dig with care.
And look, to their credit they used I don't know who the excavator operator was
they used but whoever he was, he did a good job
because he did see the warning tape, so he did stop before
he hit the power.
The landscaper himself I think he's done a very good job.
I know we're talking about, we're getting off topic but I'm just looking
I think he's done well.
Well done.
Anyway, guys that's it.
I'm going to finish up.
There's not really much more I can say other than to say
You do your best but sometimes there are just services that you miss.
It would be nice if everyone listens to me and we worked as a team
but unfortunately sometimes you can't.
Guys, I hope you've had a lovely day and I will catch you on the next job.
Bye.
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