THIS WAS COOL, GOT TO HELP THE LOCAL WATER DEPT

[dirtlooter]

Was sitting home watching the rain and waiting for it to turn to ice when the phone rang. it was the water dept maintenance supervisor wanting to know if I could check out some of their equipment. I told them I could look at it but I had no idea if I could help them. Mr Gross told me that no one there knew anything about the things at all and whatever I could figure out would be helpful. Twenty minutes later he was dropping off three manhole detectors and asked if I could try to get just one of them to work. I agreed to look at them and he left. Everything was hard wired including the coils so I opened up the brains to check 1st the batteries (he brought new ones) and found corroded ones and some poor battery connections. After about an hour or so, I determined one was fried and not repairable at this station and after some cleaning and putting the correct battery packs with the correct machine, got the other two working. all they do is detect big iron at about six to eight inches and that is all. Mr. Gross seemed to be elated as they have an expensive metal detector that is more complicated than they are capable of using or want to and were tired of digging soda cans and other junk. ice permitting, he will swing by tomorrow and pick them up. anybody could have done it if they just took the time. they were Fisher M65 and had seen hard use.

 

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[Peyton Manning]

cannot hurt you for the future

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Awesome! Maybe he'll notify you when there another dig out! Or a restricted area all to your self!

 

[Peyton Manning]

or if they uncover an old unexploded shell!!

 

[kingskid1611]

If they belonged to the city, it wasn't hard use they have seen but just abuse of being thrown around. They have some at the water dept. here that no one is familiar with but they are tore up.

 

[dirtlooter]

the abuse is true for sure but ignorance of how to use equipment leads to even more. there are those employees that do the best that they can. it was the same in the military, some people could care less and others were very responsible. I just felt pretty good that I was even thought of to possibly help. this is a small town and most of the people are pretty good and hard working.