denvermartinfarms
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Today me and dad spent 14 hours on a 8 hour job and have most of a day tommorow finishing it, so I will miss most of the sale :cry2: . We are putting in a new lateral field for a friend if dads a little over an hour from home, today we get there and start digging and find out the line from his tank to his current field so deep it won't ever work good, then we get a little further and find that the power line going to his house is exactly the same depth as what our pipe needs to be in that spot, so we have expose more of the old line to hook into it in a higher spot. Next he has failed to mention that one of his yard sprinklers runs through where we are digging and a dog fence wire, then a abandoned cable and phone line, none of witch were a big deal but required stopping and calling the owner to make sure they were all dead. Next is the real booger, we think we are past any and all utilities and I scrape a 2" gas line with the backhoe, didn't open it any just scuffed it a little, so dad calls the locate company to report it and have someone come out and tell us what it is since they hadn't located it when we had them out marking the power, well by federal law anytime you accidentally expose a gas line you have to call 911, then we have 4 fireman a giant fire truck, 2 different gas companies, the city, and the locate company on the job, they all tell us that it is a old abandoned line and is on none of there maps, they tell us to keep digging and cut it we are good to go on. 10 minutes later we dig through it and now I am in the ditch and dad is digging, and I here gas, oops it wasn't dead! Everyone that showed up the first time had to come back, but this time there is even more of them, I taped it up and stopped the gas, but still know one knows what it is or where it goes? Then the owner remembers his swimming pool company buried it to his pool heater :idea: 8" deep with no tracer wire! Once that was learned we got the line shut off and plugged, and after getting everyone the paperwork they needed we got back to digging at 5pm this evening. Oh and his system is in green clay so it's like a pond and every ditch we dig fills with a foot of sewer water. I'm not one to complain about anything, I just thought this might make someone else's bad day seem a little better.
Suck it up Princess. 
