Our Equipment

We have a full range of tools and equipment for locating utilities and other objects underground and in concrete. Here are a few of them.

RD-8000 Electronic Locator

We perform our electronic locating using a top-of-the-line RD-8000 pipe and cable locator. This state of the art locator can operate on 18 different frequencies, each of which is best-suited for a particular underground environment. The RD-8000 can find the depth of buried utilities to within four inches, and can detect the presence of utilities up to fifty feet below the surface under ideal conditions.


Mala CX Concrete Scanner

Our concrete scanner is a Mala CX structural ground-penetrating radar, a specialized type of GPR that is specifically designed to find utilities and other objects in concrete slabs. This unit can construct plots of scanned utilities in two or three dimensions, and can even tell if power cables in a slab are energized. We also have a variety of antennas of varying frequencies for the Mala CX, each of which provides a particular balance between penetration depth and scan resolution.

MALÅ HF Cart

The MALÅ HF Cart is designed as a carrier for the MALÅ HF Antennas. The MALÅ HF Cart allows for robust, reliable and precise positioning of your high frequency GPR investigations.


Seeker SPR

The Seeker SPR is one of the most advanced subsurface penetrating radar systems in the industry today. It transmits safe, ultra wide spectrum RF energy pulses through your chosen medium and then displays a clear image of the subsurface on its user-friendly and easy-to-read operator interface. Compatible with most computers and external data resources, the collected data can be easily formatted and analyzed.


Mala Easy Locator

We use a Mala Easy Locator wheeled ground-penetrating radar unit for underground utility imaging. As something of a big brother to the handheld Mala CX, the Easy Locator is used primarily to locate non-metallic utilities and underground storage tanks. Like the CX, this unit also has switchable antennas that provide greater scan depth or higher resolution, depending on the needs of the locate. We've also outfitted our Easy Locator with an all-terrain cart, to ensure that this unit will work wherever we need it to.



-

Schonstedt Magnetic Locator

Detect the magnetic fields of all ferromagnetic objects property markers, manholes, septic tanks, well casings, valve boxes, cast iron pipes, steel drums, unexploded ordnance up to sixteen feet below the surface.


-

Sewerin Aquaphon Leak Detection Kit

An amplified listening device with various types of microphones that enable the user to efficiantly listen in the ground for possible water leaks in pipes.


-

Combiphon

As plastic pipes are not electrically conductive, they cannot be located with the classic electro-magnetical method. Another principle in pipe location is used with the acoustic method: the pipes transmit mechanical vibrations better than the it surrounding soil. The vibrations are transmitted along the pipe and over the soil to the surface where they can be detected by a microphone: (AQUAPHON)



We also have fault detectors, sonde locators, water dyeing equipment ... if you'd like to know more, just let us know.

Dig Smart of Maine, Inc. · Private Utility Locating & Concrete Scanning
114 Sawyer Road · Scarborough, Maine 04074
Phone 207-749-7231 · Fax 207-883-7936
Dig Safe Systems Listed with Dig Safe