Hey guys, Ben here.
Geelong Cable Locations.
So, for those of you that follow me a fair bit
that have watched my videos in the past a fair few times you would have seen
me talk about the Australian Standards for underground locating.
A depiction of the underground services.
So, AS5488-2013 is the Australian Standards that we work to.
Whenever we're doing any locating out on site whenever we're drawing up any plans
anything like that in terms of the underground service locating
we do it to the Australian Standard.
This way everyone works to the same standard there's a consistent line.
Well, your benchmark line.
You try always try to achieve, try to get better than that.
So that when someone else looks at the site someone else comes and looks at the plan
they can all understand it, get a better idea of it.
Anyway, the reason why I'm doing this video today is colours.
There's been a lot of debate and a lot of discussion about colours.
I'm not here to talk about colours that, what you should use
what you shouldn't use.
I don't want to open that can of worms.
There are, sorry, in the Australian Standards there are set colours that you should be using.
It's not law.
It's not mandatory.
You don't have to use those colours.
But there are set standards, there are set colours that they want you to
use for locating underground cables and putting on plans.
But, one of the questions that's come up a fair few times
more from locators more from guys that are out there doing locating.
The question is
when you've got a Optus cable and a Telstra cable coming down the same street
how do you mark and you've got to mark them both white.
So communication, you've got to mark them white.
How do you distinguish the two.
If one comes over and they cross over or something like that
how do you distinguish how do you put your marks down.
And this is not in the standards.
This is just comes up to the locator on how the locator decided to do it.
You could just put your dots down you could put your lines down
you could join the dots you could do a range of different things.
I was on a job site, was actually a night shift job last year
and we, I took a video of everything I located.
So, took footage of it, everything I located because it was a big
normally take photos but this one was a bit complicated
so I took a video of it just so I've got evidence of what we've done
in case anything happens anything gets hit
we can show what we've done.
And also so in case a client wants a copy of it
in case the ground gets washed away or something and the paint goes.
So we always take photos of every job we do.
Anyway, what I thought I'd do I'd show you what I do.
So if we get out to a job so this one here was fairly complicated.
There was a fair few services out there.
A lot of communication.
A lot of different types of communication.
So what we did.
What I did is I marked them differently.
So what I want to do I'll play you the video,
now I'll play you the video but the video quality
is very, very poor.
So you have to excuse me about that.
I used my mobile phone to do the recording.
And it was night time so the quality of it was pretty bad.
It is a Google Pixel XL so it is meant to be pretty good.
But still there's only so much my mobile phone can do.
Even I used this camera
it still would have been pretty bad.
So, jump over to this screen.
Come over, have a look and we'll
we'll play the video and I'll talk over it and I'll tell you what I've done and how it is.
I mean, I'm sure those of you with experience will understand as soon as you start to see
the video you'll get the picture.
But, hey, hope this helps you.
Let's get into it.
Okay, so that there is a vocus pit.
So, we've got let me just pause it for a sec.
So the white dots are the cable.
So, all the white dots that we've got on the that you see everywhere
that is the cable that I've located.
So it's all communication and what you'll see is I've put a different
colour in the centre of it so that we can distinguish it.
We carry, you can't see the paint cans but we carry 10 different colours of paint with us.
Generally 10 different colours is enough.
Some of these jobs you've got to use multiple colours on dots and do it different ways.
So, anyway.
Let's keep watching.
Alright, so right there you'll see we're following the purple dots right now.
So keep following the purple dots.
So it's a white dot with purple inside of it.
So when I say purple dot, let's just pause again.
Sorry, guys.
When I say purple dots, when I say red dots, when I say green dots
I'm talking about the dot inside of the white.
So you've got a white mark and then inside, in the centre of it is what
it's coloured.
So that goes to the manhole.
That goes to that manhole.
So from this manhole here we've got two different types of conduits.
One of them is with a red dot.
The other one there is with an orange dot and it's with three dots.
So you see how I mean when you're on site
it does make a bit more sense all you literally do is follow the dots.
Again, Optus cable here.
From this Optus cable
it's the what colour's that one.
Think that's pink.
Follow the pink dots.
See over here now, actually that's red.
The other one's orange.
See over here it gets confusing.
So that's why you go over it like that.
So it keeps following the dots.
Follow the red dots as you go through and it's actually pretty shallow there as
you see it goes up the road.
From that way there.
Come around again and we'll follow a different one now.
That's from that manhole again.
So, going from that manhole there's one that goes around the side
and then this one here it goes straight to that pit.
So you'll see it going to that pit.
And you'll see that other one over there going around
past the gas valve keeps going
around
so that's got the purple dots in it and it's going over to the vocus pit.
And then these ones here they cross the road
coming back this way
we go over
go next to that post
go through there
around that pit there
it's going around the pit
gone around
gone around that pit as well
keeps going around and then goes into that pit there.
So does that make sense to you?
Does that really
Are you understanding what I mean?
I tell you, it's nothing special.
It's not rocket science.
I'm sure, oh it's going to start again.
Just stop that.
I'm sure my kids would probably understand this
if I told my kids.
But it's just to show you a different way of doing it.
So, again there's no set standard on I mean some people
some guys put three dots they'll put three and then next to it
I've done it before as well.
So, you put three dots and then you put two dots.
So everywhere there's three dots that's one cable.
Everywhere there's two dots that's another cable.
And everywhere there's one dot that's another cable.
Over here because they were crossing each other
it was too hard to put in three dots and then two dots
because again, before I started locating I didn't
know where any of that was going.
So you go to hook onto one and go find it, mark it all.
And then you go hook on another one mark it and then find it's crossing over the
other one.
So all of a sudden it gets all confusing.
By the end of the night you're like oh my god all those marks.
And you've got to try work out what is what.
So that's why I've used the colour dot situation.
You could put crosses down instead of dots.
So follow the crosses then follow the dots.
Follow the lines.
Follow the circles.
Put circles with a line in between.
A range of different ways of doing it.
The idea is just to distinguish the difference between
one conduit and the other conduit.
Just so you, just so as a locator you know that you have
located it so you can tick it off that you have located it
And so you can show the client.
So you can explain where they all are.
That's it guys.
Real quick video today in the office so it's easier.
Don't have to worry about wind noise or anything like that.
Bit different.
Anyway, guys I hope that makes sense.
If you've got any questions leave them in the comments below.
And for those of you that are locators let me know what you
what do you do.
In situations like this where it gets really complicated
where there's a lot of services out there that are all the same type of utility
when you can only, when you should only be using one colour.
Now, I have used other colours before.
So let’s say for example
We're on this job and there was no other services.
All we're doing is just communication.
All those communications are all we're doing then I might have used yellow
or I might have used blue or I might have used some other ones.
Actually no I probably wouldn't have done that.
But anyway, you could do it if you wanted.
I didn't on this one because I located everything on that site so there was other colours
all over the place so that's why I didn't do it.
And generally I wouldn't.
Probably to use this system.
But anyway, yeah, those of you that are locators leave a comment below.
Tell me what you would've done.
Or what you do do in this situation.
Guys, take care.
Hope you're all well.
And I'll catch you on the next probably the next job outside.
Bye.