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Entries Tagged Hydroexcavation
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Road Safety
A lonely highway winds through a mountain pass. Two workers in a safety cone truck slowly navigate the curves, placing safety cones to direct traffic...
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Digging Machine: Hydroexcavating with Venom
Josh Morrison operates this 2014 Vactor HXX for Venom Industrial in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company performs hydroexcavation services throughout British Columbia. The...
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Digging Machine: Working Throughout Alberta
Copperline Excavating’s 2014 Foremost hydroexcavator operates throughout Alberta from the company’s headquarters in Spruce Grove. Truck operator Petro Giannikos has been running...
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Davids Hydro Vac
Davids Hydro Vac, based in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, took on this job site in downtown Minneapolis in March. Davids Hydro Vac...
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Digging Machines: In the Mountains
This 2015 Tornado tandem-axle hydroexcavator is seen in the mountains of Canada. The truck, owned by AABLE Directional Boring of Alberta, is built...
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Trying to Stay Busy
Times are challenging for hydroexcavators working in the gas and oil industry. As oil prices fall, oil and gas companies nationwide are...
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Versatile Vacuum Truck is Go-To Equipment for Ted Berry Co.
Matt Timberlake, president of Ted Berry Company, is a firm believer that no single piece of equipment will make or break you...
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Tornado Hydrovac Trucks Put New Spin on Dumping Debris
When Dwaine Ruckman, the owner of DR Hydrovac in Strathmore, Alberta, got into the hydroexcavating business in 2003, he wanted a truck...
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Digging Machine: Iron Horse Hydrovac Co.
Iron Horse Hydrovac Co., of Minot, North Dakota, serves a wide range of customers from the oil and pipeline sectors, utility companies,...
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GapVax Founders Receiving Local Honor
GapVax founder Gary Poborsky, and his wife Rose, will be inducted into the Greater Johnstown Cambria County (GJCC) Business Hall of Fame...
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Using Slowdowns as an Opportunity
An old saying notes that there’s nothing certain in life except for death and taxes. In the oilfield industry, add a third...
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Project Snapshot: Proving the Equipment’s Value
What started out as a job to vacuum drilling mud, turned into a much larger project for Connor Orban and his company,...
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Fight for the Industry
Significant investments in all types of infrastructure have seen a multitude of projects across our province, and the hydroexcavation industry has been...




















