The Utility Pipe Finders crew served as a subcontractor on a water main replacement project in Stow, Ohio, throughout August 2015. Company President Connor Orban says what was supposed to be a three-day job turned into a three-week job after the city and the primary contractor, HM Miller Construction, learned what the company’s Premier CV-series hydroexcavators were capable of doing. Crews were initially hired to vacuum drilling mud from HM Miller’s directional drill installing the new lines, but Utility Pipe Finders was soon asked to excavate for utility locations near where the waterline work was taking place. Orban notes that the difficult part of the job was the soil conditions where crews were faced with digging through rocky conditions at times. “We learned to use different types of high-pressure jet nozzles to move the rock a lot easier.” For more on this project, go to www.digdifferent.com/featured.
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