Entries Tagged Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD)

Equipment maintenance is never a trivial matter, but when it comes to directional drilling, it perhaps carries a bit of extra weight.That’s...

Replacing underground electrical lines throughout Southern California is big business that requires some big-time equipment. Watch how crews at California Boring negotiate...

For the eight semifinalists in Vermeer’s Ultimate Crew contest currently underway, just being recognized means they are doing something right.“It’s showing how...

The JT9 horizontal directional drill from Ditch Witch uses a high-performance, air-cooled, 64 hp Tier 4 Deutz diesel engine to offer 9,000...

A worker from Nevada died when equipment malfunctioned while he was operating a winch at the Upper Narrows Pipeline Replacement Project tunneling...

As an underground trenchless technique for installing and replacing culverts, pipe ramming is often the most efficient and economical. At times it...

Directional drilling goes back nearly a century when the oil and gas industry developed the process to allow multiple wells to be...

Piercing tools provide less disruptive alternative to trenchingProblem: United Cable Construction, based in Ladson, South Carolina, was contracted to complete a 2-mile fiber...

Construction has begun on a project to upgrade water and sewer lines serving Liberty Island, site of the Statue of Liberty.The Jersey...

Brothers Keith and Jeff Newhouse founded JK Trenching in Freedom, Wisconsin, shortly after Keith graduated high school in 1996. During the summer,...

The D100x140 Navigator horizontal directional drill from Vermeer features a 275 hp Tier 4 Final Cat diesel engine, 100,000 pounds of thrust/pullback,...

Ron Lindquist sat in a hydroexcavation seminar at the 2015 Water & Wastewater Equipment, Treatment & Transport Show in late February and...

Powered by a 66 hp air-cooled Tier 4 final Deutz diesel engine, the JT9 horizontal directional drill from the Ditch Witch organization...

Vermeer Corporation is looking for the Ultimate Crew and seeking entries from horizontal directional drill (HDD) contractors and their crews from across...