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this was a private unmarked line and so then we have to start to play sherlock holmes and figure out whose line it is now in this case we're going to put it back together and we track down that this is actually an irrigation line so then we called out the irrigation contractor responsible on the site to make sure that he was good with the way we repaired this now if this was a cable line or a private electrical line something that we're really not comfortable doing that's when we would call out a contractor to fix it so here's how i look at it if i've called in all my utility locates and they've clearly marked where all the lines are and i snagged that bugger that's on me to pay that bill but if a line is not marked and i hit that line then i've got some arguing rights and sometimes that happens where a line gets mismarked they've got to be within about three feet is the general rule that i've heard if they're more than three feet off from a line then the contractor may not be responsible for the repair of that line but if they've marked that line and they're within three feet of that line on either side of it and you hit that line that's on you you've got to be careful that's at least the way i understand it and these rules change is going to be different from different parts of the country today we got our dump truck driver on his way out his hand he's going to haul some junk on out of here for us make some more room and uh yes we're gonna need a lot of fill but now here's the flip side of the coin if we did not mark this job site and we anything we hit is now our responsibility if we didn't do a utility locate on this thing we failed to properly notify the companies we are 100 responsible for anything and everything we have that's why it's really important to follow those utility locate guidelines and to document the start of your project to make sure you know where all of the utilities are because where the responsibility lies can be one of those finger-pointing matches and this is i'm just sharing from experience what we've you know done over the past 25-30 years of digging in the dirt and finding goodies [Music] some people have said well you know why do you use this grapple for digging why do you use it for this you know it's one of those tools that it's maybe not perfect for digging but once you start to get familiar with it it's you're just like ah i don't really feel the bucket is better i know it's weird but it's like you just get so used to the…