Hey guys.
How are we all doing today?
Hope you're all well.
We're at the deavation in Fyansford.
Those of you who from Geelong would know this area pretty well.
They are going to be putting finally, they are going to be putting a big roundabout down here
It's always been a pretty deadly, oh well, I don't know about deadly
but it's always been a dangerous intersection with cars coming down the hill
and especially there's a new estate going in and so forth
and cars always coming up that way so they're putting a new roundabout in here
which should be good and we are on site locating underground services.
You can see Dave right now trying to find
I think he's locating a HV power.
Actually, he's already found one HV power. I think he's trying to find to mark the other one.
But anyway.
So that is what we are doing at the moment.
We've got a fair bit done.
There's a gas transmission main.
There's a couple of HV power cables.
There's Telstra as well.
And I'm not too sure about water.
There might be water.
I'll go check.
Dave's been here all day.
All I've done is come down to check up on him.
See if he's ok.
But yeah, hope you're all having a great day.
And let me show you around a little bit, what we've found so far.
Ok, so what we've got, we've got a HV power cable
coming off the power pole there
and it comes down
along here
We follow the orange marks
and then it goes around the corner
and around right there where Dave is right at the moment.
Down around the road there.
There's also a second HV power cable that comes from another power pole round there.
It comes down along here.
See the orange? And it turns in here
and goes across the road as well.
And that's what Dave's just trying to pinpoint right now.
The second cable.
So it's on days like this when we've got a lot of traffic
that it's good that we've got traffic control available to help us.
Otherwise it's a bloody pain in the arse trying to cross roads
without traffic control.
Okay.
So out here we've also got a gas transmission pipeline.
It's a major pipeline that feeds Geelong.
It's extremely high pressure.
We got a test point just here.
This is where we hook onto it.
And you'll see Dave's marks along here.
So the gas transmission main
keeps coming up through there and you'll see just on the other side
those marker posts.
It goes straight to those marker posts.
Just there.
And then turns around that way and goes up along there.
So the gas transmission main from here also heads up the hill
and you'll see the yellow marks on the ground.
1.2 deep.
And heads up that way there.
Alright buddy.
Have fun.
Hey guys.
Ben here.
Geelong Cable Locations.
So back at Day 2 out at this job
where they're putting a new roundabout in at Fyansford.
And today we're doing we're doing some hydro excavation.
You can see the truck in the background over there digging away
So yeah, we're just doing some service proving.
We are proving what we found last week.
Dave's exposing the power.
Sorry, we've exposed the power cable already.
The HV power cables and he's actually right now doing the gas transmission line.
Now gas transmission pipelines are
a. they're critical pipelines obviously but it's, you need to have skill
when it comes to exposing them.
You need to really know what you're doing.
You need to be switched on.
They've got a tar around them.
There's different coatings around different pipelines.
But you can't touch tar.
You can't, if you damage the tar you've got to redo the whole pipeline.
You've got to literally rip up the whole, rip up, you've got to expose the whole line
of the pipe and recoat it all.
So you've got to be real careful with it.
So what they do is, we've got the gas inspector with us today.
Rocky's out here today.
He's inspecting, making sure we're doing it the right way and everything.
And he's watching every step that we go down.
We've turned the pressure right down on the truck
so we're digging with real low pressure.
It takes longer to dig.
But the client's okay here.
The client understands that it's a critical asset
and we've got to be real careful with it, so and this is the safe way of doing it.
The other way of doing it, you're digging it out by hand
and that way would be a lot slower.
So at least using the hydro excavator, yes it is
yes it is lower psi a lower water pressure
that you're using to dig.
But it's the safe way of doing it.
So it just takes a bit more longer but we get it done.
So.
That is what they're doing right at the moment.
I've just stepped away because it's a bit noisy round there.
But I'll try to get some footage up close to it
so you can get a feel for what it is and how it looks
and how it all goes.
After he finishes that one we've got another one to do down further.
So basically anywhere where anywhere where they are going to cross the
pipeline is where we're going to expose it.
We are exposing this gas transmission line at 2 spots.
And also a HV power cable.
HV power cables that we're exposing at 3 spots.
He's done one already.
And we've got 2 to go.
So.
That is what we're doing for the rest of the day out here.
Alright.
Thought I'd fill you in.
I'm probably going to head off soon.
Dave's pretty capable of doing this by himself.
He doesn't need me out here.
So yeah.
I'll head of to another job so I hope you guys are all well.
Take care.
And any questions, any comments leave them in the section below.
If not, we'll catch you on the next job.
Alright guys.
Take care.
See ya.
Bye.
Hey guys.
Just heading off.
But Dave's said they've exposed it.
So I thought I'd come and have a look.
And I thought I might as well show you guys.
Come and have a look at it.
So it's actually not the pipe that we expect.
Well sorry, it is the pipe but it's not actually the gas pipe.
It's actually in a conduit. So let me zoom in for you.
Hang on a sec. There we go, right there.
So that is a conduit.
Well, the gas pipe, the gas transmission main is inside of that.
So it's inside that culvert.
So, that is her right there.
And that is 1.8 metres deep.
We said the gas transmission main is 2 metres deep.
So you imagine you've got the conduit or you've got the culvert.
Then inside of that is your gas transmission main.
So, I think we're pretty close with our depth.
Alright guys.
I thought I'd quickly show you this before I head off.
Talk soon.
Bye.