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7 steps to optimize your pipeline trencher teeth setup for rock

To help get the most performance from pipeline trenchers, you need to pair the appropriate trencher with the right type of teeth for the ground conditions. Learn how.

Tips for pairing the right tooling and mud mixtures

If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times — tooling and mud mixture should be adjusted for the ground conditions you’re working in. Learn what considerations to make to help you choose the right tooling.

How to transport the T1055 Commander 3 pipeline trencher

Learn how to carefully and correctly load and unload the Vermeer T1055 Commander 3 track trencher to help you ensure safe transport.

6 steps to help prevent cross bores

There’s no room on a horizontal directional drilling (HDD) jobsite for shortcuts. That’s especially true when it comes to preventing cross bores. Learn these steps to help keep your crew and jobsite safe.

Diligent bore planning can help prevent utility strikes

There’s a significant amount of buried infrastructure to avoid while installing underground utilities. Those busy underground rights of way make diligent bore planning more important than ever to help prevent utility strikes.

Rent, lease or buy: which is right for you?

Having the right equipment makes a difference in managing a successful, productive horizontal directional drilling (HDD) jobsite. How you secure and retain that equipment itself — from tooling to the largest HDD machines — can be key to completing a job.

A safe, productive jobsite is one with good communication

Every utility jobsite should start with a plan. But many jobs can face the unexpected. Learn how to be prepared to adapt to these change and maintain a safe, productive jobsite.

Preventing utility strikes is everyone’s responsibility

With the demand for faster data speeds increasing, more utility lines going from overhead to underground has led to a lot of underground congestion, weaving new lines through crowded utility right-of-ways. Because of this, horizontal directional drilling (HDD) crews need to spend just as much time planning as they do drilling to prevent utility strikes.

Steps to help prevent a utility strike

Protect your team, your equipment and your productivity with these key steps that will help you prevent a utility strike.

Making sense of vacuum excavator specs

When it’s time for you to add a new vacuum excavator to your fleet, you’ll likely spend time reviewing equipment specifications to determine the right machine for your needs. Learn how to make sense of the different machine specifications to help you make the right choice.

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