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Originally Posted by fotze
I think the ease of digging the holes depends on where you are in the city. In Sunnyside I easily dig a 5 foot hole with a shovel in a minute or two. In Bankview at my buddy's house we broke the auger on the end of a bobcat off due to the massive boulders.
Just try digging (after the 1st call thing) a hole and see how easy it is.
Other reasons to call and line locate is that the record keeping on where lines are put sucks (historically) and you cannot trust that someone didn;t cut some corners by not burying them deep enough.
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Oh, for sure. I dug the whole with a hand auger and it didn't end up taking me too long, about 10 minutes per hole, but sometimes I'd hit fair-sized rocks that I'd have to get out with a smash bar.