Small Vacuum Excavators Can Pack a Punch

Some contractors opt for smaller trailer-mounted units when getting started in the vacuum excavation game

Small Vacuum Excavators Can Pack a Punch

Vac-Con’s Mudslinger trailer-mounted unit can be fitted with either a 990 or 1,190 cfm, 16-inch Hg positive displacement blower and can have debris tank sizes of 535 or 845 gallons. The debris tank has a hydraulic dump hoist with a 55-degree dump angle.

Investing in a large hydrovac unit isn’t always feasible for contractors like Jim Tieffel who don’t do a lot of hydroexcavation work to begin with. Currently when Tieffel, a plumbing contractor in Alabama, finds an underground pipe that needs replacing, he calls upon others to...

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