Tile Finder Helps Locate Old Lines

Tile Finder Helps Locate Old Lines MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous “You can locate the full length of a tile line without digging up a field ” says Terry Murphy Maverick Inc Slater Iowa about the company’s new Tile Finder system The Tile Finder consists of a 650-ft reel of heavy copper wire “rod” and a 512 Hz transmitter and receiver The transmitter sends a signal to the end of the wire rod which is fed down a line of tile The handheld receiver shows the exact location and depth of the tile “A lot of farmers are buying their own tile plows and spending a lot of time searching for existing tile Once you find a tile outlet or inlet you don’t always know where that tile goes ” says Murphy “In addition the transmitter lets you pinpoint exactly where the end of the wire rod is so if the rod hits an obstruction you can dig down and free it up ” He says customers are saving money with the system “One farmer put in several hundred thousand feet of lateral tile and uses his Tile Finder to locate all the tile mains before he goes in with his tile plow That way he can put in additional tile without damaging any existing tile Another farmer saved the cost of putting in 20 000 feet of 8-in tile by using the Tile Finder to locate a lot of main tile lines he didn’t know he already had He canceled the order and simply ran smaller laterals to the existing main tile lines ” Murphy says a locator that’s included with the system can also be used to identify the location of many kinds of underground utilities including phone cable gas electric and metallic water lines The system sells for $4 570 plus S&H Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Maverick Inc P O Box 466 Slater Iowa 50244 ph 800 685-2818; www gomaverickinc com

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