By Angus W. Stocking Utility Products Buck’s Communications is a multifaceted utility contracting corporation based out of High Point, North Carolina. Like any firm that works with utilities – like any firm that ever breaks ground on any project – Buck’s has to be very good at the pesky but vital art of locating underground pipe,cable and fiber. “Our underground crews locate an array of obstacles that plague the underground world,” says Brian Buchanan, vice president of Buck’s Communications. “We own and operate all of the big name locators on a daily basis.” Download PDF

Congratulations to John DeHan of Carter & Burgess for his winning entry in our quarterly Magnetic Locator Giveaway.

by Angus W. Stocking May 2006 issue of www.9-1-1magazine.com On July 16th, 2005 a silver BMW ran off the road and plunged into the rain swollen Cahaba River near Hoover, Alabama. The driver, Brandee Skinner, managed to escape, but her two children – Ashlyn, 5, and Bryson, 18 months – were still in the car. It would take more than a day and the assistance of two local land surveyors with Schonstedt magnetic locators, before they were found. Download PDF

The U.S. Army is playing up its ability to get high-tech tools to soldiers in the field more quickly and more affordably. —Jonathan Skillings Staff Writer, CNET News.com This isn’t a gold-plated weapon. Rather, it’s an $850 off-the-shelf magnetometer that troops are using to find weapons hidden in walls and under the ground. The civilian version of this metal detector is used to find buried power lines. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Rather than weapons, the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force is focusing on devices such as surveillance systems for searching out explosives, or handheld computers with voice recognition that carry a…