On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0100, Harry Bloomfield wrote:

It happens that Kinell formulated :
Suggest a metal detector would help you plot the cable route.

Only if the cable is no more than a few inchres deep in the ground.

Wouldn't that depend on the quality of the metal detector and the size of
the cable? Of course you wouldn't know whether your detector/cable
combination was working if you didn't find the cable! You could experiment
I suppose, if you knew what sort of cable you were looking for, but that
would involve a bit of digging up the lawn too :-) I'm sure there would be
someone knowledgeable on uk.rec.metal-detecting. Also a little Time Team
style trench at a right angle to your suspected cable run might be helpful,
you should find some marker mesh/tape above the cable. None of that would
help you find the damaged area of the cable though, if that is what causing
your problem.



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