Re: RF ground - Call Before You Dig!

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Original poster: "Brian" <ka1bbg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yes, in New England its Dig Safe...cul brian f.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 11:11 PM
Subject: RF ground - Call Before You Dig!


> Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Hi,
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> At 07:16 PM 6/28/2005, you wrote:
> >  I then pounded an 8 foot copper rod down until I had about 1.5"
sticking up.
>
> BTW - Before you pound in that big stake...  It is a "real good idea", and
> often a "law" now, to get a hold of your state's "one call" or "Call
Before
> You Dig!" folks:
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> http://www.uncc2.org/excavators/index.shtml
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> You call this place, totally for free, and in the next very few days all
> kinds of interesting utility folks will drop by and make sure you are NOT
> going to hit gas, electric, sewer, cable, telephone, etc. lines that are
> buried.  Utilities are often required to do this free since nobody wants
> you hitting that big underground high-pressure LNG pipeline the realtor
> forgot to tell you about and incinerating half the town...  If you hit say
> a water line under your garage floor, you could be in deep S as that
> backhoe rips out your flooding garage floor...
>
> Calling this place makes it so you are not "liable" for a bunch of nasty
> things too...  A friend of mine ripped out a cable TV line and took out
1/2
> his neighbor's TVs for a week with a garden  tiller...  The TV place was
> "real mad!!" and going to charge him bad until they found out he "did"
call
> and they missed it...  They "quietly" came and re-buried the line 8 feet
> deep (to code) the "second" time...  I have called mine recently and it is
> very easy and fun!  I knew there was nothing there, but it is no big deal
> at all just to be "official"...
>
> You can usually Google search for "one call" plus your state's name for
> local details...  The number to call is probably stamped all over your
> local utility trucks too. They take it "real serious" here!!!
>
> Be sure to tell them you are installing a Tesla coil.  "A what?...."  A
> "T-E-S-L-A   C-O-I-L"...  "...Is that like a concrete foundation
> trench?"......   They will type it into the computer right if you "spell
it
> out" ;-))  Be interesting to see if the FBI, police, and DHS show up too*
> :o)))    A "Tesla coil installation" will be sure to bring out the "best
> folks" from the utilities that will really be "into it" ;-))  "This guy on
> Plum street is installing a "T-E-S-L-A   C-O-I-L"...  OH!!!!  Yeah
> boss!!  I'll take that one!!!!!  "Ahhhh,... OK Joe,... that one is
> yours...."  :o)))
>
> Cheers,
>
>          Terry
>
> *Just tell them "It is a secret Tesla weapon to incinerate terrorists
> 'without wires', you won't understand it, and don't go telling nobody
about
> it!!" >:o))))
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