Accurate locating of underground utilities is critical for municipal and utility work crews. Failure to pinpoint buried lines can carry heavy costs from the extra time and expense of having to relocate, to the cost of repairing utilities damaged by digging in the wrong place.Magnetic locators are a common tool in field crews’ kits. These relatively simple instruments have one primary purpose — to detect ferrous metal. The ML-3 magnetic locators from SubSurface Instruments are designed to simplify locating and to withstand challenging conditions in the field.Scott Rauen, SubSurface Instruments sales manager, demonstrated both the short and long versions of
