Posted By Penfold Please help. I am advising a company that drives fence posts into residential gardens. They have on occasions hit underground services. On 1 occasion an electric cable leading to a street lamp. The MET post they are currently using is around 24" long. I am sure I have seen a product on the market that allows users to locate underground services. Does anyone know where to buy such a product. If so, it it easy to use, or does it require specialist training. Thanks if you can help

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Posted By jon_hall As Robert states, they will need proper training to cover this. If they are having the need to do with on a regular basis, there are companies out there who do a train the trainer course in Cable Avoidance Tools. If you need details drop me an email as we use a company (in Cheshire) for this training occasionally. That way you could have someone at a supervisory or managerial level who would be allowed to train any new staff in use of the equipment. And yes they need to be recalibrated as per manufacturers guidelines.