Just below the soil surface in my front garden!

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• Feb 27, 2018

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Hope it's a bit deeper now?

 

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• Feb 27, 2018

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The Builder needs a new battery in his Cat Scanner then..

And maybe a new spade, or was it an excavator bucket?

 

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• Feb 27, 2018

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JCB mini digger. Now buried under about two foot more of rubble which will be a right pain if it needs to be dug up again.

 

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• Feb 27, 2018

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30-40mm below ground is a bit shallow, I'm surprised nobody hit it in the past already. Maybe ground level has changed over the years since it was installed. Did it have any hazard tape on top of it? Did the DNO charge you for fixing it?

 

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• Feb 27, 2018

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DNO fit hazard tape???? you having a giraffe???

 

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• Feb 27, 2018

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Yeah, wishful thinking maybe.

What type of cable is it? Looks a bit like split-con on my 12 year old monitor....

 

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• Feb 27, 2018

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Marvo said:

Yeah, wishful thinking maybe.

What type of cable is it? Looks a bit like split-con on my 12 year old monitor....

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mostly is either split con or just plain con over here. thrown in any old way, sometimes even buried if you're lucky.

 

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• Feb 27, 2018

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Was the cable cut through, or picked up and stretched until it snapped?

 

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• Feb 28, 2018

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I bet he’s got a nice little chunk missing out his bucket.

 

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• Feb 28, 2018

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Managed to avoid ours; Supply cable to property, installation depth - https://www.electriciansforums.co.uk/threads/supply-cable-to-property-installation-depth.136540/

 

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• Feb 28, 2018

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As mine enters the bounty of the property through a dyke, you can see it cross over from one wall of the dyke to the other.

Must give the DNO a call one day..

 

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Don’t know the cable type but it had aluminium core and copper outer strands. No hazard tape. We’re in an old 19th century cottage and would say the front garden hadn’t been touched for about 30 years. For the location you would have expected an over head supply. No damage to digging machine.

 

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• Mar 3, 2018

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It's called hybrid cable. Generally DNO's cable 450mm deep. My area usually in 32mm PVC ducting and yes marker tape used
But when builders developers install service cables, it has been known that corners are cut. No doubt DNO (old electricity Boards) in the past have done the same.

 

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FatAlan said:

Don’t know the cable type but it had aluminium core and copper outer strands. No hazard tape. We’re in an old 19th century cottage and would say the front garden hadn’t been touched for about 30 years. For the location you would have expected an over head supply. No damage to digging machine.

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It looks like split concentric, but can’t tell if those strands on the right have blue insulation on or not?

 

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