Locate buried water pipe plastic

[nicholst55]

I thought thumpers were used to call giant sand worms!

Let's see if anyone knows what I'm talking about.

Dune.

And FWIW, I vote for the free Utility Locator method. I did that for a few months years ago, and I know that for $20 cash, I would have located anything the land owner wanted!

[abunaitoo]

Dowsing, or Witching, works..................For most people.
Once at work they had to find a water line.
Bunch of guys came with some fancy, expensive looking equipment.
Paint lines all over the place.
Dig here............
Nothing.
Dig here............
Nothing
Dig here............
Nothing.
Machine broken, need to get another from the shop.
Hop tow operator get two wires and starts walking around.
Finds the water line nowhere close to any of the painted lines.
Not on work out of those fancy collage boys and their expensive toys.
I've tried it a few times with mixed results.
About 50/50. Hit and miss????
But I really don't know what I'm doing.
Give it a try.

[wildwilly501]

Did you fix it yet.Is in a wet area.Maybe your soil is different than in Pa around here a leak in a pipe a foot under ground would take about 5 minutes to find that shallow the water would be coming to the top very close to the leak,Sometimes in a deep ditch it will travel a ways before coming up but it not hard to follow a foot deep pipe.The rods do work.As far as locater services they are better than they used to be put I've pulled up phone lines as big around as your arm when the flags and paint were 30 feet away.

[Texas by God]

Piece of cake to find the path with a valve locator/ wire tracer since you had the foresight to install the copper wire in the ditch. Some irrigation supply houses rent them out. The bent wire witching works if your voodoo is correct- seriously. BUT- as stated above- the 100% accurate way is to try to NOT hit it with the backhoe!

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