Joys of spring

[ptonsparky]

First locate of the spring planting season. Send one man out. At 1:00 Pm he is still at it. Sand easy digging about 18" -24". We can only locate one fault at a time so, locate, dig, cut, test and repeat as necessary. He is still repeating so I pick up my other guy and out we go. Four other holes with three more strong locates. I call it quits on field one with proven splice qty of 11 with three more holes to dig. I report to field manager and we head to field two. This one is a bit more confusing because my cable locator quits. POS. Fault locator works fine so we find two faults, only problem is we are missing about 600' of 250 quad that should have been between the two faults. The cable locator was working fine and the friendly words of encouragement I was silently giving my help, were for naught. There was no cable to find. So when you think your equipment has gone to hell, think again, it just may be the operator that is not paying attention. Me.:ashamed1:

The rest of the cable? Somewhere in a quarter section. They were using deep tilling equipment and snagged the cable. Erosion over the years.

 

[Cow]

You're not alone Tom. We've got a few select circles on a few different farms that are trouble every year. Multiple splices required at the start of every irrigation season. We had one last year at the end of the season that has at least 10+ splices in it,well, it decided to quit again in the middle of an 8' high corn circle. THAT WAS HELL! Got it up and running after 3 more repairs, told them to run it just long enough to get it to the outside of the circle(it's a half circle) and we'll deal with running new wire this spring. They haven't called yet, so you know they're rolling the dice.....

 

[ActionDave]

No doubt, you are not alone by any stretch. Annual rite of spring- Trace, find fault, dig, patch, test, repeat.