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@springyzone wrote:I wish I was finding things. I've got the opposite problem, searching around for stuff I know I've got... somewhere but it's not where I thought it was.
So far, I am missing my Tefal pressure cooker recipe book & instructions, a prescription and several photos that are on my computer somewhere but not in the folder I expected.
I could go on.
I don't want to find anyone else's stuff but I wish I could find my own.
Don't you just love it when you put things away in a "safe place" - it's generally so safe that I can't find it again when I want the item! 
@martinw-48 wrote:
Did you dial before you dug?
Not having a go because I've known of infrastructure to have been present when it was stated as being safe
I have a five and a half foot Copperhead that lives in my house and we just keep away from each other
Well she keeps away from me after our encounter in the hallway one hot summer's night
Back in the seventies when I lived at home in Golden Grove
My sister and I were at Myer TTP I think mum was buying a coat or getting us coats and I was bored s'less
For some unknown reason I stuck my hand in the pocket of a big Camel hair coat and pulled out a twenty dollar note
I was standing staring at it in disbelief when mum snatched it out of my hand
I still like to remind her of that
The power cable was several hundred metres inside a private property and a private line so not covered by dial before you dig, but that reminds me of another experience with the loader.
I was digging a dam close to the boundry of my farm. It was all going very nicely when the penny dropped that there was poles on the boundry indicating some kind of fibre optic cable there some-where. I stopped and " dialed before I dug " any further. The CS guy got a bit excited and suggested I stop digging until a tech guy came out and did a field check.
Turns out the cable was only a couple of metres from where I was digging and was on the edge of my dam wall. It was the main line between two major towns with banks, hospitals, large schools etc. reliant on the line. Had I cut it I would have been up for hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages......
On another occasion I had to do several hundred metres of retaining walls at an old school. We checked the schools records of pipes etc.before digging, but the charts only went back around twenty years. Every ten metres or so we found an old water pipe or remains of septic systems. Tradies had just added and added stuff over the years with very little recorded.
On another occasion I quoted a landscaping job based on the nice loamy soils to be seen on the site. As soon as I dug in to level the site, I struck sheet rock.
There is that much stuff hidden under ground, that it was getting scary putting the loader into a job and was one of the reasons I gave building and landscaping away and went ebaying instead.
