Is it safe for me to dig a post hole in my yard knowing a water line is somewhere nearby?![]()
How good a swimmer are you? You could always put on a lifevest before you start to dig... and put the number for the CoastGuard in your speed-dial rolodex. Is the post intended as one end of a hitching rail, and you're planning to mount a water hydrant on it, to fill your horse watering trough installed beneath the rail? Maybe, if it all goes south, you could buy yourself a horse, and then just tell everybody that "it was planned that way"! What could possibly go wrong? You'd probably be reasonably safe from drowning if you just shut off the water to the line first. Worst case scenario, you could always say you were just trying to locate where that durned lost waterline was... and you were SUCCESSFUL... it was right where you figured it would be, and you found it on the first try! And then you put that post there to mark it!Is it safe for me to dig a post hole in my yard knowing a water line is somewhere nearby?![]()
I don't think I'll drown, but I might turn into an icicle if I find the line the hard way today. My wife wants me to put a post in the front yard for a bird feeder.Is the post intended as one end of a hitching rail, and you're planning to mount a water hydrant on it, to fill your horse watering trough intalled beneath the rail? What could possibly go wrong? You'd probably be reasonably safe from drowning if you just shut off the water to the line first.
Do you know how to "douse" (dowse?)? To find underground pipes? Maybe find a youtube video and see if it works for you. Once you learn it's relatively easy.I don't think I'll drown, but I might turn into an icicle if I find the line the hard way today. My wife wants me to put a post in the front yard for a bird feeder.
I don't think I'll drown, but I might turn into an icicle if I find the line the hard way today. My wife wants me to put a post in the front yard for a bird feeder.
Knipco... Please do post pics of you digging with your lifevest on. And of the watering trough, with your new horse drinking, beneath the bird feeder. I see that Warren Allison is back on this morning... you could probably get a good horse from him.I don't think I'll drown, but I might turn into an icicle if I find the line the hard way today. My wife wants me to put a post in the front yard for a bird feeder.
Sorry, I was on hiatus. But @Nesikep has pictures on here somewhere.Have any of y'all tried to ride your cows? I've been wondering that for a while.
Even a video standing on one. Barefoot.Sorry, I was on hiatus. But @Nesikep has pictures on here somewhere.
Sorry, I was on hiatus. But @Nesikep has pictures on here somewhere.
Wow! That was fast... neighbor saw you digging out there, pulled up a lawn chair and a beer and waited I guess! Hey honey, get over here! Mark's out here again... I gotta see this!
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How did they get that picture of me after dragging the calf in from the snow drift in the blizzard?
I'll add that if you hold your rods out very lightly so they can move easily, you can find a position where they are kind of neutral and will wander around pointing just about any direction. You need to find that place and recognize where it is. Then... you need to tilt your hands forward ever so slightly so the rods maintain a forward direction holding them apart from each other the distance of the exposed rod. All you want to do is just slightly tilt forward to the point that the rods stay forward facing but if a stray breeze hits them they will move. When you walk over the pipe they should move on their own and come together over the pipe.