Re: Underground wire - cable locator
Bob, George,
I have seen guys find things that they couldn't find with all of the expensive equipment. I never believed this stuff until about 15 years ago. We had a contractor do some locating for us in a college boiler room where we were installing a new peak shaving generator. He set up his equipment and did his thing, and then he pulled out two "sticks". I was giving him, "what's going on here, we are paying you good money for this job". He told me that he often finds things with the "sticks" that his equipment won't. I watched him walk the area and every time he was above the things that his equipment found, the sticks crossed. I said, you know where the conduits are and are making them cross...he said here try it and close your eyes as you walk...I did and they crossed for me too. He told me that he sells the expensive equipment and teaches class on the use of that equipment. In his classes he always teaches the "sticks". At the beginning of the class most do not believe, at the end every one believes, but only about half can make it work. No one has any idea of how they work, but they work.
As far as the science of this, I think it is there, but we haven't discovered it yet. I don't believe that it is a physic thing but some physical effect that we don't yet understand.
Don
