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farmmilkmama
True Blue Farmgirl
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Amy
Central MN
USA
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 Posted - Feb 16 2012 : 12:01:34 PM
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...how do I figure out where the electric runs underground? I know where I want the giant vegetable garden at the farm we bought in December, but my father now tells me he thinks where I want to put it might be where some of the electric runs underground for the outbuildings. The seller isn't sure if the lines run there underground (he sold the farm for his dad who passed away, it wasn't ever his, meaning the sellers, house)and the electric company will only come out and mark for "their" lines into the property (to the house), not the ones that are run underground from outbuilding to outbuilding. How do you find out where the lines are? Metal detector? Something else? I'd rather not have the new garden be too shocking of an experience. 
--* FarmMilkMama *--
Farmgirl Sister #1086
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Everyone else is already taken.
-Oscar Wilde
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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Lisa
Georgetown
OH
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Posted - Feb 16 2012 : 12:19:10 PM
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Amy
Here in Ohio we call OUPS. They come out & mark with orange flags where everything is. Does MN have something similar? |
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farmmilkmama
True Blue Farmgirl
2027 Posts
Amy
Central MN
USA
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Posted - Feb 16 2012 : 12:41:44 PM
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Yes we have something like that for MN but they won't do "private lines", just the one from the road to the house. Anything that was added when electric was hooked up to buildings they won't flag. Or at least that is what I was told! :(
--* FarmMilkMama *--
Farmgirl Sister #1086
Be yourself.
Everyone else is already taken.
-Oscar Wilde
www.farmfoodmama.blogspot.com
www.thehmmmschoolingmom.blogspot.com |
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oldbittyhen
True Blue Farmgirl
1511 Posts
tina
quartz hill
ca
USA
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Posted - Feb 16 2012 : 12:48:43 PM
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call an electrition out, most lines are in a straight line from your breaker box to the other buildings, they (in California anyway)have to be run thru pvc and buried 24 ins deep, if you dig down where they start from, and then where they end, you should be able to mark that run out by eye fairly easily also...
"Knowlege is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad" |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - Feb 16 2012 : 12:54:20 PM
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Don't forget about the telephone lines, if you still have a land line.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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