Hey guys! Ben here, Geelong Cable Locations.
Let me show you a job we're on at the moment.
We're out in Bannockburn at the moment.
They're getting a new gas main installed in Bannockburn.
But before they install the gas mains they need to know where the underground
services are. So that's what we're doing right now.
We're locating the underground services so they don't cut anything.
So let me show you what we've located so far.
So we're just out here at the moment. Take a look at this.
So the yellow is where the new gas line is going to be installed.
That's a new line that they want to install just through there.
You have Telstra running through this way here, you have copper line
as well as all the local feeds. These are the local Telstra's
that feed the houses and also feed down the street.
So there's a few Telstra cables through there.
Also got a 100mm optic fibre in a conduit running through here.
You see the pink dot just here.
That is an optic fibre through there.
The reason why we've used pink rather than white...
You should use white for communication.
They've actually used white.
Or them or someone that has been out here locating. They've already used white.
So we don't want to use white because we don't want to get our marks confused
with their marks. But the reason why, regardless of that old used pink
on the optic, is because I can't guarantee it's definitely optic.
I've found something through there.
So we know there's something going through there.
So we've found it with the... There's a trace wire on top of it.
There should be nothing else through this area, but until we can dig
down and confirm it, until we know exactly that's what it definitely is
then we won't know that that's definitely the optic fibre or not.
So pink is marked as unknown, assumed to be optic fibre.
There is also another optic fibre that runs right around here roughly.
Come for a walk down here and I'll show you where we think it really is.
Okay. So take a look at this. Right there is a transponder.
In that vicinity is a transponder.
What is a transponder? A transponder is a device they stick on top of optic fibres.
Or on top of gas mains. They put it on a few different things.
Optus cables, other things as well.
They put transponders on optic fibers and on anything that can't be located.
So if there's no trace wire, if it is not a conductive pipe, if it's not a metal pipe
they put a transponder on it.
And what you do, you then come through with a transponder locator
and locate where it is.
There's several optic fibers in here. There's the optic fiber in here,
that's more, the newer one.
It runs right through here.
This one here, though, is old school. This one is one of the old ones that went in.
So when you look at an optic fibre, there's two different types that you see.
Well, actually, there's three now, because there is NBN as well.
There's two main types. There's a black one and a blue one.
The black, the original. They're one of the old ones that were probably put in
just over twenty years ago or so. So those ones there are the originals.
The more moderns ones, the modern ones we see everyday now are blue ones.
When people talk of optic fibre, and you look in the pit and you expect them to see blue
and you see a black one, beware. There are still black optic fibers in use.
A lot of times if you see a black optic fibre, it won't have, so the original ones,
won't have a trace wire and they won't be in any pipe, it will be direct buried.
You do get some blue ones also that are direct buried, but the black ones are
generally always direct buried and don't have trace wire.
But, good, when they put transponders in it like this here, so they put a transponder in it,
it gives us a guide to... I mean we've got an offset from the fence, from the plan
but this still gives us a guide to know where it is. So what we're gonna do now...
So again this is where the new gas main is going to be installed.
That is our optic fibre that's in pipe. Where the pink mark is, right through there.
So we're going to come back with the hydro truck.
We're going to dig down on there, confirm that that is definitely the optic fibre that
we're thinking of. The 100 should be, in 50 mm pipe, sorry.
So dig down, confirm that's in a 50mm pipe. Then we're going to dig down
we might do it directly in line with the line I've just got here.
Dig down here and just double check that that optic fibre is where it should be.
So we've found a transponder there.
They might have stuffed up, they might have put the transponder off it.
I just want to double-check that that one there doesn't come out through where
they were gonna go and back in again.
Might even put all those ones over there and double-check there.
We're going to pick this in.
That should be okay.
But yeah, definitely dig down here, definitely dig down there.
Once we've proved what that is then they'll be fine to dig their trench through here.
So probably do a few potholes up along here, they'll go the whole way down
the end of the road and the whole way up that end of the road.
Alright guys, that is what we're up to today out here.
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Alright guys I'm going to try and finish off earlier
It's starting to get a bit late. So I hope you're well.
Take care and bye for now! Bye!