If youre allowed to wet the soil with a hose a turtle rod (a long pointed
metal stick for finding buried turtles) might help, but you might just find
rocks
Not to get choked out for mentioning it, but you might also try divining,
its possible the bottom of the culverts still have some water in them. You
just need to get a wizards robe first.
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:04 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) <
li...@packetflux.com> wrote:
> The metal detector I have should locate this down to about a foot or
> more. Really depends on depth.
>
> The other thought is if you do know where one end is, you might have some
> success with a underground toner, especially if you can shove some sort of
> locate wire in.
> On Feb 17, 2015 9:18 PM, "Bill Prince" <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As you may or may not know, California has been in a serious drought for
>> the last 3 years. Interestingly, we got about 30" of rain where I live in
>> just December. Didn't make much a dent in the drought, but it did turn a
>> lot of dust into mud that flowed into culverts that had not seen action in
>> quite some time.
>>
>> Well, we have kind of a long driveway with at least 7 culverts. A couple
>> of these culverts got buried; seriously buried with all the dust turning
>> into flowing mud.
>>
>> I spent half a day last weekend attempting to "un-bury" these things, but
>> could not find them. I'm wondering if a metal detector could find them,
>> and if anyone knows how deep a chunk of metal (like a 15" corrugated metal
>> conduit) could be detected?
>>
>> One of the culverts is about 15" in diameter (might be 18", I didn't
>> measure it). One end is exposed, and I know approximately where it should
>> be on the opposite side of the driveway. I dug down to a depth of almost
>> 5' with the tractor, and was not able to expose the buried end.
>>
>> However, the other culvert is only about 8" in diameter, and both ends
>> are completely buried.
>>
>> --
>>
>> bp
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>
>>
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parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you
can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not
use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
