Trenchless Technology Tech Forum: Slurry Handling for Tunneling Projects
Challenging projects can benefit by engineering the slurry to provide favorable characteristics for the successful…
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Tech Forum: Preparation, Operation and Maintenance of Mud Systems
Proper preparation, operation, and maintenance of your mud recycling system can not only extend the…
Trenchless Technology Tech Forum: Tips for Pipe Bursting Technique
Nearly 40 years of evolution in pipe bursting equipment, tooling and technique enables today’s contractors…
Tech Forum: What’s Your Confined Space Rescue Plan?
Cleaning, repairing or inspecting critical equipment often requires workers to enter small spaces like tanks…
Maintenance Tips for Your Locators
Electromagnetic locator equipment is the primary tool utilities and contractors use to locate buried utilities…
Tech Forum: Streamline Your HDD Operations with these Two Crucial Lean Principles
HDD drillers are always looking for ways to streamline operations. After all, more efficiency means…
Tech Forum: Maintenance Practices for Guided Boring System Operation and Storage
Go longer, larger, and safer in a productive manner is the common mantra for every…
Tech Forum: Four Steps to Troubleshoot a Challenging Locate
An argument can be made that the most important part of any underground construction job…
Tech Forum: Comparing One-part vs. Two-part Grout for Sewer Repair
I am often asked to discuss the differences between using one-part and two-part polymers for…
PVC & HDD Innovations
PVC has been in use across the United States for water pressure applications since the…
Trenchless Tech Forum: The Best Bits for Drilling in Shale
Mighty shale. Though this fine-grained sedimentary rock runs on the soft side of earthen material,…
Tech Forum: Controlling I/I in Municipal Manholes
Each day millions of gallons of groundwater, surface water or storm water are flowing into…
When Good Tools Go Bad
In my travels, one of the most common questions I’m asked by contractors is: “How long should my tool last?”