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The World’s First Excavator Bucket That Detects Buried Utilities

Some have called it the “holy grail for earthmoving.” Rodradar has developed the world’s first excavator bucket equipped with ground penetrating radar that detects underground utilities. On this episode of The Dirt, we hear from company founder and CEO Moshe Dalman about how it works and get answers to questions contractors will have about the bucket, called the Live Dig Radar (LDR) Excavate. Rodradar first unveiled the new radar bucket at ConExpo 2023, demonstrating how it can detect utility lines of all types and any material, including PVC. Rodradar has partnered with AMI attachments to develop three bucket sizes with ground penetrating radar and expects to hit the market next year. “The operator finally has eyes to look into the ground whenever he is coming to any site and detect and avoid these utilities,” said Yuval Barnea, Rodradar vice president sales and marketing, at ConExpo. To learn more about how the innovative LDR bucket works, check out the latest episode of The Dirt. Equipment World serves up weekly videos on the latest in construction equipment, work trucks and pickup trucks – everything contractors need to get their work done. Subscribe and visit us at equipmentworld.com! Newsletter Signup: https://randallreilly.dragonforms.com... Full Article: https://www.equipmentworld.com/the-di... 00:00 - Utility Detecting Excavator Bucket 00:41 - What Is the Rod Radar LDR Excavate Bucket? 02:06 - What Kind of Utilities Can This Detect? 03:19 - Does This Bucket Replace Professional Utility Locating Services? 04:20 - What Are the Depth Limitations? 06:50 - How Fast Can You Remove the Rod Radar Bucket and Attach a Normal One? 08:52 - How Much Does This Cost? And What’s the ROI? 12:30 - How Can I Learn More About the Rod Radar LDR Excavate Bucket? Video Transcript: Bryan Furnace: Hi everybody. Welcome back to Equipment World. You're watching The Dirt. I'm your host, Bryan, and as you can see, we're in the middle of construction, so please excuse our mess as we move into our new studio. But that being said, we're coming at you today to talk about some really cool technology. We're talking about RodRadar, a ground penetrating radar bucket that allows you to find utilities on your own without a locate service and it actually works and it's pretty stinking accurate. So without further ado, we're going to talk to Moshe with RodRadar about how the system works. So this is a really exciting product, but for people unfamiliar with RodRadar, can you give us just a general overview as to how the system works and what it is? Moshe Dalman: So I'll start with just outlining the problem. Everybody works around utilities and we know that the information about utilities is poor and we know that it forces everybody to work slow and be very, very careful and be inefficient. And the reason for that is very simple and that is because we cannot see into the ground and this is exactly what Live Dig Radar does. And I emphasize it, it gives the operator the ability to see into the ground while digging. And this is where we differ from anybody else that is dealing with utility strikes, is that we want to empower the operator, because the operator with a machine is the one that eventually hits the utilities and is the one that wants to prevent to avoid hitting the utilities, so this is what we do. How did we do that? We embedded a sensor into a digging bucket and it's just like the radar or the camera that you have in your car that makes you a better driver. This is a sensor that tries to make the operator a better operator. Bryan Furnace: Is this limited to finding utilities with a tracer wire or some sort of metal conductor, or is this going to find plastic and other fiber, for instance, that doesn't necessarily have a tracer running alongside it? Moshe Dalman: First of all, we know that we can detect any type of utility in any type of soil. Of course, if you have a tracer wire or something metal in this utility, it's going to be easier for the system to pick it up. We're very focused on the short range. We are worried about the next bite of the bucket, so since this is what we're interested in, we are overcoming many of the limitations of ground penetrating radar. The physics didn't change, but we're looking close, we can detect things that are different from what the soil looks like to the radar from very short range and we can make the decision whether it is a utility or not. By the way, we do it automatically. We don't need any technician to interpret. Our algorithm does it automatically and presents it to the operator in a meaningful way, in a way that they can operate upon. Bryan Furnace: So not being limited to only metal conductor type utilities or ones with tracer wires. It sounds like even if I don't hire a private locate, I could come out here to a private residence and start digging around...