Mar 09, 2020
Working in harmony with nature means your crew and equipment must work in harmony as well. Little mishaps or miscalculations can cause big problems, especially on difficult jobs. That’s why Kinetic Underground gets the call on tough projects—they go the extra mile to do the job right: no shortcuts on procedures and no skimping on […]
Mar 03, 2020
Two 300-foot bores, 17 feet down, through 44,000 psi of basalt. All at a .75 percent grade. It’s just another day’s work for Logan Kallwick and his crews. “That job was a tough one,” said Kallwick, field supervisor for Downing Diversified in Kalama, Washington. “But those are the kind of jobs we’re known for. We […]
Nov 14, 2019
In the HDD business, time is money. Uptime is everything because productivity is the key to profitability. Some operators, however, are cutting into their uptime by trying to cut costs on the batteries in their beacons (also called sondes). It seems like such a small detail in the context of everything on an HDD jobsite, […]
Subsite® Electronics is the only manufacturer in the industry that repairs their beacons (also called sondes). Repairs can be made at the factory or at the local Ditch Witch® dealership, which maximizes uptime for customers and helps keep them productive. Of course, repairing a beacon is a money-saving alternative to buying a new one, but […]
May 02, 2016
The capability to carefully control and guide the path of an underground pilot bore is what has made horizontal directional drilling (HDD) a primary method of installing underground utilities. Indeed, HDD often is the only practical and in some instances the only possible way to bury pipe, conduit, or duct. While the drill unit provides the […]