petepilot
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who know what the proper name is for underground electric wire locating equip ?
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UNDERGROUND ELEC . WIRE LOCATOR
- Thread starter petepilot
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cuttin edge
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Quite a price difference.
terex herder
Senior Member
radiodection is a big name manufacturer.
Truck Shop
Senior Member
Company I use to work for had a operator that could locate wires, pipes you name it
at the drop of a hat with a 225.
NepeanGC
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We use a Radiodetection C.A.T. and Genny. It's basic, but works well.
petepilot
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Entirely capable of doing it that way except its my cable. Only want to fix it.
John Canfield
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My never fail wire and pipe locator is my Bobcat excavator 
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This is what we have -
https://pipehorn.com/product/800h-pipe-and-cable-locator/
Invented and made in Birmingham, AL. They have the original one in their office.
Think we paid around $1200 for it a few years ago but not 100% certain. It's easy to set up an use, the learning curve is not that bad. If there is a locating wire the accuracy is within a couple of inches on either side of the line.
Of course we call a locator here a "Pipe Horn" - image that.
https://pipehorn.com/product/800h-pipe-and-cable-locator/
Invented and made in Birmingham, AL. They have the original one in their office.
Think we paid around $1200 for it a few years ago but not 100% certain. It's easy to set up an use, the learning curve is not that bad. If there is a locating wire the accuracy is within a couple of inches on either side of the line.
Of course we call a locator here a "Pipe Horn" - image that.
JLarson
Senior Member
We call that a physical locate lol
Sounds like you probably want a locator and a fault finder if you have a faulted cable.
John Canfield
Senior Member
Here's the model (<< that's a link<<) I use on the ranch.
petepilot
Senior Member
Yes got a part in a leg of a 240 line thats been in the ground 24 yrs . There is a y in the line & im pretty sure thats where the prob is just have to find the y.i may be able to find someone to locate it here local without having to buy some thing.there is for sure lots of stuff on e bay from 120.bucks up to 15.000
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terex herder
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Do you know anyone who does directional drilling? A lot of those guys will have their own locators.