Tracing Burried Romex in Yard

[stretch]

A $35 tool like the following will do the trick

Bennett,

That works well if you can already see the wire, i.e. you can touch the wire with the device. It is great for picking a hot wire out of a bundle of dead ones. It won't work well for a wire buried 6 to 12 inches deep in dirt.

Matt, I have a tool that will sense a wire a couple of feet deep, but it cost about $220. Call an electrician. If you destroy the wire in the process of finding it, you aren't saving any money!

Stretch

[Matt]

Stretch -

Does the expression "Well, Duh!" mean anything to you?

Matt

[Tekkie®]

DanG posted for all of us...

Hey top posting Danny Boy what magical advice did you come up with other th= an slam me?

Did you read some of the other responses; didn't think so.

So take your useless top posting; usless post and be gone...

--=20

Tekkie

[stretch]

Matt, When I joined this group, I thought that you were being abused by some of the other members, they treated you so badly. It is obvious now that you deserve it. You are a spoiled brat, who just wants attention, and gets it by making trouble for other people. No, I will not lower myself to your level by cussing you out like some others, but it is apparent that you are no account. I don't have a kill file, and don't intend to get one, but you are still easy to ignore. The alt.hvac problem is not paul's debacle, it is yours. Anyone on any of these groups will know that in a few weeks or less. I'm surprised how long it took me to find out how big of a (fill in the blank)_________ you are. Everyone else knows also. No-one wants to joine a new group with you. Not even the other (Same Blank)_____________. As the travelocity gnome says "Ignoring you, ignoring you!".

Stretch

[Craven Morehead]

[Craven Morehead]

[Doug Miller]

Birds of a feather....

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

[Matt]

Obviously, you do.

[The Real Tom]

Romex is a brand name, they do make UF cable also, so maybe he's reading off the box.

tom

[The Real Tom]

You left out some things, do you want to keep the power and just trying to be safe while 'trenching'? Do you think your 'trenching' is deep enough to catch any burred wires?

Have you found the ends of their burried cable?

tom

[borgunit]

They have devices to do what you are asking. They are expensive and your electric company may have them. If you are not willing to pay to find them then you will have to dig it up (no real short cuts).

[HorneTD]

Doug I'm sorry but I am one of the most reactive safety guys around and I knew it was a JOKE.

-- Tom

[HorneTD]

Sorry but no. I'm not a lawyer either but I do know that to have a cause of action at law the person you are suing must have had a duty to you that they breached. It is decided law that advice given freely is worth what you pay for it and creates no duty toward the hearer.

-- Tom H

[HorneTD]

Sorry guys but I'm with Matt on this one. Anyone who got killed following that joking advice who had yet to have children should be a shoe in for the top Darwin Award for the year.

-- Tom

[Chris Lewis]

According to Matt :

You recommended something that you _knew_ could lead to injury or death - which is well beyond negligent homicide.

If you were lucky and the person didn't die, you'd likely only be charged with civil assault. And you'd lose.

[Little known fact: civil "assault" doesn't mean someone is injured by your direct actions. Doing something that a "reasonable person" would/should have known could cause injury is sufficient. Even if it's a joke.

[Jimmy]

But can the mentally challenged, like Matt, be found guilty of such a crime? If they could, I suspect Matt would have been in jail long ago.

[Chris Lewis]

According to HorneTD :

Uh, no. It _helps_ to be sure. Particularly for professionals handing out free advice, but sometimes being a professional may make it worse.

It's by no means a slam dunk. There's never _zero_ duty of care.

Given a sufficiently egregious stupidity, _nothing_ will save you.

Matt's being a case in point. He'd be in even more danger if he were a "pro".

[DJ]

So, if I said to someone, "Go f**k yourself...", and they did and got pregnant because of it, would that imply paternity and/or financial responsibility?

DJ

[Jimmy]

Has Matt managed to get himself pregnant?

[Matt]

Stretch -

Aren't there some buried cables that need to be located in your yard somewhere?

Matt