Hey guys.
Ben here.
Let me show you the job site I'm on today.
So, we're at a new estate.
They are developing a new estate here at the moment.
And they need to dig some power straight through here.
They are going to put some new power in through here.
Currently, there's Telstra.
I've already actually marked the Telstra.
You'll see my white paint.
400 mm deep.
See the next lot of white paint.
You can just see it through there.
So Telstra I've already marked.
But there's also NBN.
Let me show you the NBN pit.
So there's NBN and it's by itself.
It's not with the Telstra.
It's by itself.
And there is is there.
The green cable is NBN optic fibre.
And that should be running straight through that way as well.
They've got a feeling that where they've done some work down further
that the NBN sways in and out a bit.
I haven't done the locating here yet.
So I don't actually know.
I'm about to do that now.
But because the NBN is going through this way.
And because Telstra's going through this way.
And because the client themselves can't actually dig through here with the machinery.
They can't do a trench through here.
They are going to have bore a hole up to the trees.
They're not allowed to touch the trees.
They're going to bore under all this.
What they've asked me to do is come out.
What they asked me to do is come out and actually locate where the optic fibre goes
so then they can work out exactly
so they can avoid it basically.
So when they do their bore through it they can make sure they avoid
hitting the optic fibre.
They are also doing another bore this way.
Let me show you this one here.
See that tree there?
They can't touch that tree and they are going to have to do a bore through here to make sure
to put the power to the other side.
You'll see my white paint already.
As I said before I've already done the Telstra.
So, it does veer off a little towards the side there.
So we're going to find the NBN.
So yeah, that is what I'm up to today.
I thought I'd just show you.
I might try and put the camera somewhere and set it up and so you can watch me work.
Alright.
Let's get started.
Now what I did forget to mention is optic fibre is a, is not conductive.
You can't locate it.
You can't hook the locator onto it and locate it.
What I'm going to do, I'm going to use the fibreglass rod
I'm going to push the rod up the pipe.
Luckily it's in pipe.
If it wasn't in pipe we'd be in trouble.
Lucky it's in pipe.
So I'm going to push the rod up the pipe and then locate where the rod goes.
Let's go.
Alright.
The rod is stuck.
Can't get it any deeper.
Any deeper?
I can't get it any further.
I'm going to try and locate it to see
Mosquitos!
I'm going to try and locate it, see how far I can get and
then we'll work out if we should come in the other way
or might take the sonde off the end.
Let's see how we go.
Now, because I've already used white paint to mark the telephone, the Telstra
the client's asked, and there's nothing else in the area.
The client's asked me to use pink paint.
Pink paint isn't normally, what we normally use.
It's not part of the Australian Standards to use pink for NBN.
But hey, the client wants me to use pink - I'll use pink.
Okay, that's as far as we can get it.
Not good.
Not good at all.
I might try taking the sonde off it.
See if that helps.
If not I'll come from the other end back this way
which I don't think will make the distance.
Let's see how we go.
So, I'm going to pack up.
And then I'll give the client a call and see what he wants to do about that broken conduit.
Either we'll come down with our truck, hydro excavate it,
expose it, do a big enough hole that I can get in there and
Well, actually we'll see.
Is it broken?
I know that it is broken but just confirm that it is broken.
And then I'll try and put the rod in going that way
and yeah, see if they want to, if the client wants to fix it.
And the other issue with finishing late at night
other than the fact that oh, these stupid mosquitos.
Other than the fact that it's going to too late
and my kids are going to be in bed by the time I get home
is the fact that it makes it so much harder to look around and to make sure I haven't forgotten anything.
Actually, on the camera it looks alright.
I think I'm better off looking on the camera to see if I've forgotten anything
because it's actually quite dark.
But the camera makes it look bright.
Nearly packed up.
Let's put it all back in the car now.
Alright, let's give the client a call.
And tell him the bad news about the optic fibre.
Can you imagine if I did locate it the whole way.
We'd still be going.
Actually, no, if I did locate it the whole way
it would have been a lot quicker than the stuffing around we did do.
Alright, let's give him a buzz.
Alright, so tell me before I ring him, what's the ettiequte?
It's just gone 7pm.
Is it too late to call someone at this time of night?
I don't think so.
If I'm still working I think I should be able to call him and tell him about the
job that I'm doing for him.
Luckily it's a good client.
We've done heaps of work for him in the past.
Oh actually, I've known him it's probably 20 years now.
So, it's yeah I'm sure he's got no issue with me calling him at this time of night.
Hold on, he might be pissed off when I tell him the bad news.
G'day, it's Ben.
Geelong Cable Locations.
Anyway, can you give us a buzz back when you get a chance.
It's just gone 7pm and I know you're probably having dinner
or finished up.
I'm just finishing up out here, leaving site now.
No go with the optic heading towards which way are we?
Heading north.
So optic heading north - bad.
The conduit is broken.
The area where the conduit is broken we need to dig down and confirm it
and see what's going on.
Found it going the other way.
Found it going south.
Am I talking about the right way south?
Found it going into Ocean Grove but going out of Ocean Grove no good.
I could only find it 20 odd metres.
Anyway, give me a call when you've got a chance.
Thanks buddy.
Bye.
Alright, well if he's not answering his phone.
I'm going to finish up for the day.
I'm going to head home.
Kids will be in bed already which will be annoying.
But hey, I'm making the bread for them so it's all part of it.
Alright, hope you guys all had a better day than I did.
I was having a good day until this happened.
It's not a bad day.
I'm just pissed off that we couldn't find the end of it.
Alright, you guys have a good day.
Have a good night and I'll talk to you soon.
Bye Bye
Hey guys.
Let me quickly fill you in.
So I've just got back.
Just after I stopped recording and you saw that I rang the client.
He rang me back.
He said that he's got connections with NBN.
So I said that's good.
Because they're a pain for me to deal with.
So he's going to get in touch with NBN, tell them that their asset is broken
and then find out how they are going to go about fixing it.
I was telling him we've got a couple of options.
If they come out and fix it and put a pit in there
where it was, then it's all good.
We'll go back there at another date and put the rod up it and then locate it.
If they're just going to fix the conduit and then
backfill it again then we're in trouble.
Oh no, not trouble then we can stick the rod where we did
but it's going to be easier if we
before they fix the conduit is if we rod the conduit from where it broken.
It's just less to go.
Less distance to travel.
And it's going to be easier for us to put the rod in
and not get caught up anywhere.
So, I've said to if that's what they are going to do
to call me first to let me know and I'll come back out and rod it when they're there.
When they've got it exposed.
This story is not over yet.
We'll see what happens.
Hopefully he gets in touch with me
and let's me know what's the goes .
Alright guys.
I just wanted to quickly fill you in.
Just so you know where we're at.
Alright, I'm going get to some emails now.
I've been out all day.
So it's time to do some emailing before I finish up.
Alright.
Talk soon.
Bye.
Hey guys.
Okay, so back out here again.
It's been 5 weeks since we've been out here last.
The client's been on the phone with NBN, they've been speaking to them
emailing them, all sorts of stuff.
And we're back out here again to get this job finished.
Except we haven't had any luck with NBN.
They've been a bit of a pain in the arse.
We knew it was going to be the case.
The client's still got to do his digging.
He 's got to dig through here regardless.
And he doesn't want to damage it.
So we're going to do something different to try and locate the cable.
We're going to, we're still going to go through and locate
it for him.
We're just going to do it.
Tackle it a bit differently.
Let me just show you.
That's probably the easiest way.
So over here we've dug down
they've dug down and found where the cable is.
And then, what we're going, done is
drilled into the conduit itself.
And what we're going to do now, we're going to get our reel
and we're going to put, feed our reel into the conduit and hopefully it tells us which way it goes
down there.
Now, I know I get a lot of locators that watch my videos and a lot of utilities
owners as well.
Alright, first off, if you're a locator I do not recommend this.
Do not do what I've done.
You're interfering with the conduit.
So you're interfering with the asset owner's asset
so without permission you should not be doing this.
It's dangerous, it could cut the cable.
All sorts of things could go wrong.
You could be in the wrong conduit, it could be a water pipe.
It might not be actually the cable itself the actual conduit itself.
So as I say don't do as I do.
Alright.
For the utilities owners.
Or NBN especially.
If NBN if you're watching.
If you want to sue me for damaging your conduit for interfering with your asset
go right ahead.
My email address is ben@geelongcablelocations.com.au.
If I don't do this, the cable's going to get damaged.
The assets are going to get destroyed.
And then you'll have more issues out there.
We're going fix the conduit when we're finished the works here
so there, you won't even know we've been here.
If I didn't do this video you'd have no idea what we've done.
Other than knowing the fact that I'm here to help you guys protect your assets.
So, if you're upset with me for interfering with your asset
feel free to get in touch and let me know.
But, as I said I'm here to help you guys.
Anyway, that's the disclaimers and stuff done.
That is what you call a successful ending of a job.
So yeah, all done.
We've found the NBN cable for them.
They now know EXACTLY where it is.
I've given them a rough estimate on depth as well
so they can dig down and pothole at certain areas
and confirm it's there.
The guys at NBN didn't really help us out at all.
But that's alright.
Yeah, guys don't do as I do, do as I say.
Don't do this.
The proper way would be to pothole each one as you go.
And they're going to do that still.
But, this make it a bit easier we've located it for them.
We've gone and sealed up the pipe though so it's all protected now.
The cable is all safe.
As I say, we've worked with this client well I've worked for him for 20 years.
Dad at Telstra worked for the same client for 20 odd years before that.
So we've known him for many years.
We'll help him out.
Want to do the best we can to Like we do for all our clients.
Want to do the best we can to help everyone out.
We'll do everything we can by the book
in terms of the safe way to work.
But at the end of the day our main goal is to protect our clients from
damaging any services.
We want to make sure that they're safe.
They don't damage any underground services regardless if it's an optic fibre, water pipe
or power cable or gas pipe.
So, that is what we've done.
Alright guys.
I hope you've all had a good day, Sorry, this episode would have gone a bit
longer than they should have normally.
Not that I really keep any standard.
Some go quick.
Some go long.
But I do like showing you the end of a job.
The completion of a successful job.
Yeah.
The last part of it didn't really finish the best
so I'm glad we've got a happy ending.
Alright.
You take care and we'll talk soon.
Bye.