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20 COVER STORY: PumP IT uP Canadian contractor Aquatech scrambles expert emergency teams and a wide array of job-specific equipment to drive a growing dewatering service in the mining sector. - Peter Kenter

28 EquIPmEnT ROunduP: VERSaTIlE VaCuum Tank truck manufacturers provide the power and capacity to load and carry the most demanding oil field sludge, mining slurries and semisolid materials. - Ed Wodalski

42 ExPO ROunduP: TOOlS fOR YOuR fuTuRE New equipment for gas, oil and mining support service contractors abounds at the Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo International. - Jim Kneiszel

Coming next month: mAY 2011Issue Focus: Compressors & Power Generationn Contractor Profile: Wyoming company wants to be one-stop-shop for mining, energy industriesn Equipment Roundup: Compressors and generatorsn Building the Business: Going beyond the annual employee performance review

departments8 EdITOR’S nOTEBOOk: IT’S SlOP TImE Springtime, more than any other season, reminds rust belt truck owners to clean the crud from their service vehicles. - Jim Kneiszel

12 BuIldIng ThE BuSInESS: dOn’T hIT SEnd! Just because it’s an e-mail doesn’t excuse sloppy writing or an unprofessional approach to correspondence. - Jean Kelley

16 SafETY fIRST: lImIT RISk WITh unSTaBlE lOadS New video for cargo tank drivers offers helpful safety reminders no matter what kind of loads your drivers are hauling. - Jim Kneiszel

36 mOnEY maChInES: gunnIng fOR PROfITS Ease of use and greater application control make the Dampcon gunnite rig from Blastcrete Equipment an efficient moneymaker for an Oklahoma contractor. - Ken Wysocky

38 On ThE mOnEY: JuST a ClICk aWaY Financial calculators can help you crunch the numbers when making buying or borrowing decisions. But the numbers are not the whole story. - Ted J. Rulseh

48 PROduCT nEWS SPOTlIghT: COlfax CORP. SmaRTSEnSE PulSE Pump monitor provides temperature, vibration protection. - Ed Wodalski

54 InduSTRY nEWS

APRiL 2011

on the coverAndy Ingriselli, president of Aquatech and Raul Misa, operations manager, with the Godwin automatic Dri-Prime 12-inch centrifugal pump which flows to 5,000 gpm. (Photo courtesy of Aquatech Pump and Power Inc.)

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28 36NO COMPROMISE

At Armstrong Equipment, we believe life

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things on which your business and family depend. A beautiful,

new and shiny vacuum truck with a burned out pump is nothing

more than uncomfortable transportation at four miles per gallon.

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you! Your family depends on you!

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contents

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20 COVER STORY: PumP IT uP Canadian contractor Aquatech scrambles expert emergency teams and a wide array of job-specific equipment to drive a growing dewatering service in the mining sector. - Peter Kenter

28 EquIPmEnT ROunduP: VERSaTIlE VaCuum Tank truck manufacturers provide the power and capacity to load and carry the most demanding oil field sludge, mining slurries and semisolid materials. - Ed Wodalski

42 ExPO ROunduP: TOOlS fOR YOuR fuTuRE New equipment for gas, oil and mining support service contractors abounds at the Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo International. - Jim Kneiszel

Coming next month: mAY 2011Issue Focus: Compressors & Power Generationn Contractor Profile: Wyoming company wants to be one-stop-shop for mining, energy industriesn Equipment Roundup: Compressors and generatorsn Building the Business: Going beyond the annual employee performance review

departments8 EdITOR’S nOTEBOOk: IT’S SlOP TImE Springtime, more than any other season, reminds rust belt truck owners to clean the crud from their service vehicles. - Jim Kneiszel

12 BuIldIng ThE BuSInESS: dOn’T hIT SEnd! Just because it’s an e-mail doesn’t excuse sloppy writing or an unprofessional approach to correspondence. - Jean Kelley

16 SafETY fIRST: lImIT RISk WITh unSTaBlE lOadS New video for cargo tank drivers offers helpful safety reminders no matter what kind of loads your drivers are hauling. - Jim Kneiszel

36 mOnEY maChInES: gunnIng fOR PROfITS Ease of use and greater application control make the Dampcon gunnite rig from Blastcrete Equipment an efficient moneymaker for an Oklahoma contractor. - Ken Wysocky

38 On ThE mOnEY: JuST a ClICk aWaY Financial calculators can help you crunch the numbers when making buying or borrowing decisions. But the numbers are not the whole story. - Ted J. Rulseh

48 PROduCT nEWS SPOTlIghT: COlfax CORP. SmaRTSEnSE PulSE Pump monitor provides temperature, vibration protection. - Ed Wodalski

54 InduSTRY nEWS

APRiL 2011

on the coverAndy Ingriselli, president of Aquatech and Raul Misa, operations manager, with the Godwin automatic Dri-Prime 12-inch centrifugal pump which flows to 5,000 gpm. (Photo courtesy of Aquatech Pump and Power Inc.)

20

28 36NO COMPROMISE

At Armstrong Equipment, we believe life

and business require certain compromises, but not on those

things on which your business and family depend. A beautiful,

new and shiny vacuum truck with a burned out pump is nothing

more than uncomfortable transportation at four miles per gallon.

Your customers depend on you! Your employees depend on

you! Your family depends on you!

We think you should be able to depend on us! That is why we sell

the most dependable vacuum pumps, parts, valves and tank

components available. When it comes to quality and reliability in

the tools that make your business successful, there should be:

“No Comprom ise.”






brands. For more information call us toll free at 800-699-7557.

HXL400WV

RCF500F

RFL100

4M

506

R260

800-699-755711200 Greenstone Ave. • Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670

562-944-0404 • Fax: 562-944-3636www.vacpump.com

Hablamos Español

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Adler Industrial Service - DBA Solid Oak ...14Ameri-Can Engineering .............................................2

Armstrong Equipment, Inc. ............................5, 41Butterworth, Inc.. ..............................................................6Crystal Environmental ..............................................53Dragon Products Ltd. ...................................................9Elmira Machine/ Wallenstein Vacuum Pumps ...........................34

Fruitland Tool & Mfg. ...................................................39

GapVax, Inc. ........................................................................18Godwin Pumps of America, Inc. .........................3Gorman-Rupp Company ......................................17

Granite Seed and Erosion Control..................41

Guzzler Manufacturing, Inc. .................................23Hi-Vac Corporation .........................................................7Hydra-Tech Pumps ......................................................10ITI Trailers & Truck Bodies, Inc...............................37JWC Environmental ....................................................13

KeeVac Industries, Inc. ...............................................31Keith Huber, Inc. .............................................................26

Kentucky Tank, Inc. .......................................................40Lee Supply Company, Inc. .....................................15M Tech Company .........................................................53

Moro USA, Inc. .................................................................56

National Vacuum Equipment, Inc. .................41Nuera Transport .............................................................19Pioneer Rim & Wheel .................................................14Pressure Lift Corporation ........................................39

R.A. Ross & Associates NE, Inc. ............................26RMS Rentals .......................................................................11Three Lakes Truck & Equipment ......................54

TOICO Industries ............................................................35Transcube/Western International, Inc.........27

Tri-State Tank .....................................................................14

TSI Tank Services, Inc. .................................................10

V.E. Enterprises, Inc. ......................................................33

Vac-Con, Inc. ......................................................................55Vacuum Sales, Inc. ........................................................51

Water Cannon, Inc. ......................................................25

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ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCTS FOR A CLEANER WORLD

If you define “The Complete Package” just like we do,learn more about the Hi-Vac line of products specifically designed for the Contractor market at www.hi-vac.com/contractor.html

Your complete satisfaction is our mission every day.

Complete line of

hydro-excavating

trucks and trailers utilizing

high pressure

water combined

with a positive

displacement

vacuum system

Proven, non-

destructive

excavation of

underground areas

World-class

brands designed

and engineered by

experts

✓ Leaders in safety

and ergonomic

design

A knowledgeable

sales team that

really understands

the product

Expert OEM -

technical support

after the sale

Manufacturing

plants on three

continents - sales

and support

worldwide

A financing division ready to

help

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓ ✓

✓

800.752.2400 740.374.2306

[email protected]’s how we define The Complete Package.

? How Do You Define

??How Do You Define

The

PackageComplete

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A Product o f H i -Vac ® Corporat ion

Advertiser IndexAPRIL 2011

Adler Industrial Service - DBA Solid Oak ...14Ameri-Can Engineering .............................................2

Armstrong Equipment, Inc. ............................5, 41Butterworth, Inc.. ..............................................................6Crystal Environmental ..............................................53Dragon Products Ltd. ...................................................9Elmira Machine/ Wallenstein Vacuum Pumps ...........................34

Fruitland Tool & Mfg. ...................................................39

GapVax, Inc. ........................................................................18Godwin Pumps of America, Inc. .........................3Gorman-Rupp Company ......................................17

Granite Seed and Erosion Control..................41

Guzzler Manufacturing, Inc. .................................23Hi-Vac Corporation .........................................................7Hydra-Tech Pumps ......................................................10ITI Trailers & Truck Bodies, Inc...............................37JWC Environmental ....................................................13

KeeVac Industries, Inc. ...............................................31Keith Huber, Inc. .............................................................26

Kentucky Tank, Inc. .......................................................40Lee Supply Company, Inc. .....................................15M Tech Company .........................................................53

Moro USA, Inc. .................................................................56

National Vacuum Equipment, Inc. .................41Nuera Transport .............................................................19Pioneer Rim & Wheel .................................................14Pressure Lift Corporation ........................................39

R.A. Ross & Associates NE, Inc. ............................26RMS Rentals .......................................................................11Three Lakes Truck & Equipment ......................54

TOICO Industries ............................................................35Transcube/Western International, Inc.........27

Tri-State Tank .....................................................................14

TSI Tank Services, Inc. .................................................10

V.E. Enterprises, Inc. ......................................................33

Vac-Con, Inc. ......................................................................55Vacuum Sales, Inc. ........................................................51

Water Cannon, Inc. ......................................................25

Published monthly by:

1720 Maple Lake Dam Rd., PO Box 220Three Lakes, WI 54562

www.GOMCMag.com

© Copyright 2011 COLE Publishing Inc.No part may be reproduced without

permission of the publisher.

In U.S. or Canada call toll-free 800-257-7222

Elsewhere call 715-546-3346E-mail: [email protected]: www.gomcmag.com

Fax: 715-546-3786

Offi ce hours Mon- Fri.,7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. CST

SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION: A one year (12 issue) subscription to GOMC in the United States or Cana-da is free to qualifi ed subscribers. A qualifi ed subscriber is any company or individual who maintains, services or supports land-based gas, oil or min-ing operations in North America. Non-qualifi ed subscriptions are avail-able at a cost of $60 per year in the United States and $120 per year out-side of the United States. To qualify visit www.gomcmag.com/subscribe or call 800-257-7222.

Our subscriber list is occasionally made available to carefully selected compa-nies whose products or services may be of interest to you. Your privacy is important to us. If you prefer not to be a part of these lists, please contact Nicole at [email protected].

DISPLAY ADVERTISING: Contact our sales staff below, Kim at 800-994-7990 or Noel at 888-844-3506. Publisher reserves the right to reject advertising which in its opinion is misleading, un-fair or incompatible with the character of the publication.

REPRINTS AND BACK ISSUES: Visit www.gomcmag.com for options and pricing. To order reprints, call Jeff Lane at 800-257-7222 (715-546-3346) or e-mail jeffl @colepublishing.com. To order back issues, call Nicole at 800-257-7222 (715-546-3346) or e-mail [email protected].

CIRCULATION: Standard monthly circulation is in excess of 10,000 copies.


Kim McGee Noel Lewis

Guzzler Manufacturing, Inc.






iving my whole life in a region with four distinct seasons, I’d like to think I find the redeeming qualities in the di-

verse weather we enjoy every month. But this time of year tests my patience for a constant slush of slop that attacks my vehicles.

There was a time when I didn’t care much about a chalky white film of road salt caked over my car and truck all winter long. As long as I had ample windshield washer fluid, I could clear the mess away enough to see where I was driving. But my vehicles reflected my neglect, especially during slop time, the late winter/early spring period when road salt works hardest damaging a vehicle’s finish and eating through fender panels.

Until I hit my 40s, I never understood why old men appreciated car wash gift certificates so much as Christmas gifts. With age comes the wisdom that a clean

fleet—be it my car and pickup truck in the driveway or your collection of service trucks and construction equipment—will result in better-looking and longer-lasting vehicles.

Keeping vehicles clean during this sloppy season makes an even bigger difference to you than it does to me. While I like to drive a clean car to church on Sunday, a dirty car won’t really affect my earning potential during the week.

How does a sloppy-looking service truck reflect on your business? When a customer

reads the name and number across the side of your filthy-looking pickup, trailered equipment or service rigs at a work site, they might think dirty equipment is a reflection of the service you provide. And the grimy film might be attacking vital metal components and the underside of your vehicle.

I’m reminded of some common sense advice about keeping equipment clean and in good working order during the sloppy season. If you have additional truck-washing tips, send them along and I’ll share them with readers of GOMC.

Wash often, especially when temperatures climb to 40 degrees

This time of year, it’s almost impossible to wash vehicles too often. Each day on the road works muck into every crevice on your undercarriage. Some of you might wash your work trucks nightly as they return to the

yard. Others might stretch it out a few days. Various auto and truck-washing tip sheets on the Web recommend washing vehicles at least every 10 days, and just about any time the mercury rises several degrees above freezing.

I’ll toss in one tip I’ve learned the hard way about washing cars when the temps dip below freezing: After you finish washing the vehicle, leave the doors open while it air dries. This will prevent the rubber gaskets around the doors from freezing to the doorframe.

Start at the bottom, and then go from the top down

Some automated car washes don’t have undercarriage rinse equipment or they charge more money for cleaning the bottom of your car or truck. If you fail to rinse the un-derside, you’re only getting half a wash. My preference is to thoroughly hit the underside with a power-washing wand, then wash the vehicle from the top down. If you’re going to make the effort to wash each of your trucks, carefully wash off any parts of the truck’s un-dercarriage that you can reach.

Buy deep well floor matsIf salty slush can attack your truck from

the outside, it surely can do the same from the inside. In any vehicle I own, I invest in a second set of winter floor mats designed with a deeper well to contain the salty snow and ice that melts from my boots all winter. Every so often I’ll remove the mats in the winter and clean them thoroughly in a laundry tub. Winter mats will help slow the rust and pre-serve your carpeting.

Don’t forget the doorjambsIf you give the exterior a good wash

every week, don’t ignore the doorjambs. Your truck isn’t really clean until you’ve cleaned the gateway to the interior. Failing to wash and wipe down around the inside of the door and doorframe allows you to drag more dirt inside the vehicle. It also promotes rust in seams and crevices around the door, which are some of the areas most susceptible to rust spots.

THE BOTTOM LINEA good service vehicle is one of your

most important tools. A well-appointed and maintained truck can make your job a joy day after day. At the same time, a truck that fails to hit the mark can cause daily head-aches. For the sake of efficient work and bet-ter equipment resale somewhere down the road, keep the washing equipment handy now and all year long. GOMC

Jim Kneiszel

A good service vehicle is your most important tool. A well-appointed and maintained truck can make your job a joy day after day.

At the same time, a truck that fails to hit the mark can cause daily headaches.

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pam. E-mail chain letters. Obnoxious or off-color jokes … These are just a few things that annoy business pro-

fessionals when it comes to daily e-mail. While you’re likely not sending any of these things, what if your e-mails to people are just as annoying?

Unfortunately, many people are un-knowingly irritating co-workers and clients with bad e-mail etiquette and habits. Even worse, the offenders are tarnishing their rep-utations in the process, unaware that their correspondence reflects their personal and company image and credibility.

If you’ve ever wondered why people don’t take action on your e-mails or why this productivity tool seems to waste more of your time than it saves, you may be guilty of exhibiting a few e-mail pet peeves.

Following are the top five e-mail pet peeves in the workplace. Avoid them so your e-mail messages are most effective.

1. Having sensitive conversations via e-mail.

Sensitive and emotionally charged con-versations have no place in an e-mail. If you need to fire someone, express disappoint-ment or apologize, do it face to face or at least via phone. When a topic has emotion behind it, the recipient naturally escalates that emotion when reading the e-mail. Why? Because it’s virtually impossible to display

emotion in an e-mail, and humans by nature look for the worst intentions in a message rather than the best. So your innocent ques-tion of “Why did you call Mr. Smith?” gets read as an accusatory question, as if you had asked, “Why on earth did you of all people call Mr. Smith and bother him?”

Adding fuel to the fire, many people write things in an e-mail that they would never say in person. They view e-mail as a way to have “safe” conflict without be-ing face-to-face. So they may snap back at someone in a sarcastic way or slam someone professionally or personally. If your message has any type of intense emotion behind it, don’t send the e-mail.

2. Using “reply all” versus “reply.”Just because you were one of many re-

cipients on a message does not mean every-one needs to hear your reply. A supervisor may send a group message out to the entire department asking who will be present at the quarterly meeting. The only person who needs to see your response is the person who initiated the message. If the group con-tains 100 people and each one does a “reply all” saying, “I’ll be there,” you’ll all have a cluttered inbox.

If your company requires that you do a “reply all” for business e-mails, do so. Otherwise, use the “reply all” button judi-ciously. And remember that with a “reply all,” everyone – even someone who was in the BCC line – will see your comments. So you never really know who is getting your message.

3. Using poor grammar and spelling.A typo every now and then is not a big

deal. However, consistent bad grammar and spelling is obnoxious. E-mail is a form of written communication, so respect the writ-ten word. Additionally, this is business, and

everything you do, say, and write is a reflec-tion of your professionalism.

When people read your messages, they naturally and automatically make a judg-ment about you based on your writing. If your writing is poor, everything else about you is in question. If you don’t care enough about your writing, what else don’t you care about? Your product? Your service? Remem-ber the written word stays out there forever, and no e-mail message is ever really deleted permanently. Make sure your lasting impres-sions are good ones.

4. E-mailing complicated information.If you have to give someone technical,

Building the Business

Don’t Hit SenD!Just because it’s an e-mail doesn’t excuse sloppy writing or an unprofessional approach to correspondence

By Jean Kelley

SJean Kelley

Many people are unknowingly irritating co-workers and clients

with bad e-mail etiquette and habits. Even worse, the offenders

are tarnishing their reputations in the process, unaware that

their correspondence reflects their personal and company

image and credibility.

detailed or complicated information, do it with a phone call and an e-mail as a backup rather than relying solely on e-mail communication. E-mail is best suited for short messages that don’t require a lengthy response. If your e-mail is more than a couple of paragraphs, pick up the phone and talk to the recipient. Use the follow-up e-mail to send needed documentation or a recap of your verbal instructions, but don’t expect people to read and act upon a lengthy or complicated message.

Additionally, if you are the recipient of a detailed message and need time to work on the reply, send back a short acknowledg-ment message that states, “I received your message and am working on the needed items.” And if the reply requires real discus-sion, then pick up the phone and talk about it. Don’t rely on e-mail for every topic.

5. Writing bad subject lines or not using subject lines.

Unless you’re doing e-mail marketing and relying on your messages to sell people, use straightforward subject lines that reflect the true theme of the message. Leave the cute and clever wording to the marketers. For day-to-day business purposes, plain and direct work best. So rather than have a subject line that reads, “Want to pick your brain,” write, “Need your input on the Jones project.”

Realize, too, that many people use their e-mail as a filing system, and they rely on the subject lines to find key information later. So if all your subject lines are vague or if you don’t use subject lines, people won’t know what the message was about when they search their files later. And should the e-mail’s subject change as the conversa-tion ensues, then change the subject line to reflect the new theme.

GET YOUR MESSAGE ACROSSE-mail – with instant messaging

and texting coming up fast for quick

communication – is now the preferred method of business correspondence. But remember, just because something is commonplace doesn’t mean you can become lazy with it. Always use e-mail properly and for the purposes and subjects it was intended. By doing so, not only will you

avoid these pet peeves, but you’ll enhance your professional reputation. GOMC

Building the Business offers ideas and information to help you operate your company more efficiently and profitably. If you have a question, comment or a topic you’d like to see addressed, send an e-mail to [email protected].

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ABOUT THE AUTHORJean Kelley is president and founder of Jean Kelley Lead-ership Consulting. For more information, visit www.jeankelley.com.


pam. E-mail chain letters. Obnoxious or off-color jokes … These are just a few things that annoy business pro-

fessionals when it comes to daily e-mail. While you’re likely not sending any of these things, what if your e-mails to people are just as annoying?

Unfortunately, many people are un-knowingly irritating co-workers and clients with bad e-mail etiquette and habits. Even worse, the offenders are tarnishing their rep-utations in the process, unaware that their correspondence reflects their personal and company image and credibility.

If you’ve ever wondered why people don’t take action on your e-mails or why this productivity tool seems to waste more of your time than it saves, you may be guilty of exhibiting a few e-mail pet peeves.

Following are the top five e-mail pet peeves in the workplace. Avoid them so your e-mail messages are most effective.

1. Having sensitive conversations via e-mail.

Sensitive and emotionally charged con-versations have no place in an e-mail. If you need to fire someone, express disappoint-ment or apologize, do it face to face or at least via phone. When a topic has emotion behind it, the recipient naturally escalates that emotion when reading the e-mail. Why? Because it’s virtually impossible to display

emotion in an e-mail, and humans by nature look for the worst intentions in a message rather than the best. So your innocent ques-tion of “Why did you call Mr. Smith?” gets read as an accusatory question, as if you had asked, “Why on earth did you of all people call Mr. Smith and bother him?”

Adding fuel to the fire, many people write things in an e-mail that they would never say in person. They view e-mail as a way to have “safe” conflict without be-ing face-to-face. So they may snap back at someone in a sarcastic way or slam someone professionally or personally. If your message has any type of intense emotion behind it, don’t send the e-mail.

2. Using “reply all” versus “reply.”Just because you were one of many re-

cipients on a message does not mean every-one needs to hear your reply. A supervisor may send a group message out to the entire department asking who will be present at the quarterly meeting. The only person who needs to see your response is the person who initiated the message. If the group con-tains 100 people and each one does a “reply all” saying, “I’ll be there,” you’ll all have a cluttered inbox.

If your company requires that you do a “reply all” for business e-mails, do so. Otherwise, use the “reply all” button judi-ciously. And remember that with a “reply all,” everyone – even someone who was in the BCC line – will see your comments. So you never really know who is getting your message.

3. Using poor grammar and spelling.A typo every now and then is not a big

deal. However, consistent bad grammar and spelling is obnoxious. E-mail is a form of written communication, so respect the writ-ten word. Additionally, this is business, and

everything you do, say, and write is a reflec-tion of your professionalism.

When people read your messages, they naturally and automatically make a judg-ment about you based on your writing. If your writing is poor, everything else about you is in question. If you don’t care enough about your writing, what else don’t you care about? Your product? Your service? Remem-ber the written word stays out there forever, and no e-mail message is ever really deleted permanently. Make sure your lasting impres-sions are good ones.

4. E-mailing complicated information.If you have to give someone technical,

Building the Business

Don’t Hit SenD!Just because it’s an e-mail doesn’t excuse sloppy writing or an unprofessional approach to correspondence

By Jean Kelley

SJean Kelley

Many people are unknowingly irritating co-workers and clients

with bad e-mail etiquette and habits. Even worse, the offenders

are tarnishing their reputations in the process, unaware that

their correspondence reflects their personal and company

image and credibility.

detailed or complicated information, do it with a phone call and an e-mail as a backup rather than relying solely on e-mail communication. E-mail is best suited for short messages that don’t require a lengthy response. If your e-mail is more than a couple of paragraphs, pick up the phone and talk to the recipient. Use the follow-up e-mail to send needed documentation or a recap of your verbal instructions, but don’t expect people to read and act upon a lengthy or complicated message.

Additionally, if you are the recipient of a detailed message and need time to work on the reply, send back a short acknowledg-ment message that states, “I received your message and am working on the needed items.” And if the reply requires real discus-sion, then pick up the phone and talk about it. Don’t rely on e-mail for every topic.

5. Writing bad subject lines or not using subject lines.

Unless you’re doing e-mail marketing and relying on your messages to sell people, use straightforward subject lines that reflect the true theme of the message. Leave the cute and clever wording to the marketers. For day-to-day business purposes, plain and direct work best. So rather than have a subject line that reads, “Want to pick your brain,” write, “Need your input on the Jones project.”

Realize, too, that many people use their e-mail as a filing system, and they rely on the subject lines to find key information later. So if all your subject lines are vague or if you don’t use subject lines, people won’t know what the message was about when they search their files later. And should the e-mail’s subject change as the conversa-tion ensues, then change the subject line to reflect the new theme.

GET YOUR MESSAGE ACROSSE-mail – with instant messaging

and texting coming up fast for quick

communication – is now the preferred method of business correspondence. But remember, just because something is commonplace doesn’t mean you can become lazy with it. Always use e-mail properly and for the purposes and subjects it was intended. By doing so, not only will you

avoid these pet peeves, but you’ll enhance your professional reputation. GOMC

Building the Business offers ideas and information to help you operate your company more efficiently and profitably. If you have a question, comment or a topic you’d like to see addressed, send an e-mail to [email protected].


ABOUT THE AUTHORJean Kelley is president and founder of Jean Kelley Lead-ership Consulting. For more information, visit www.jeankelley.com.

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Now that you’re grown up and driv-ing and/or supervising other drivers hauling all sorts of important loads, you probably don’t compete in many egg relay races. But doesn’t it stand to reason that you’re a safer driver day-to-day if you imagine you’re al-ways carrying a precarious load down the road?

That’s what the producers of a new safety video aimed primarily at drivers haul-ing big liquid loads believe. They argue that

whether you pull a tank trailer, equipment trailer or other loads behind your tractor, you’ll gain potentially life- and load-saving advice by viewing the video, “Cargo Tank Driver Rollover Prevention,” produced joint-ly by the National Tank Truck Carriers and the American Trucking Association in coop-eration with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

You can see the video at www.fmcsa.dot.gov/about/outreach/cargo-tank-video.aspx. It’s also free to download and show to drivers as part of a safety-training program.

MUST-SEE VIDEOAs part of his work with the NTTC,

Steve Niswander, vice president of safety

policy and regulatory regulations for Groen-dyke Transport Inc., Enid, Okla., envisioned this video for tanker drivers to help reduce danger-ous rollovers. Groendyke runs about 1,000 tractors 70 million miles annually hauling mostly liquid haz-ardous materials.

Niswander argues the new video – the latest component of a national anti-rollover campaign –

is a must-see safety tool for drivers who pull tank trailers or trucks with fixed tanks. But he says any trucker who ever hauls an un-stable load or a load with a high center of gravity will benefit from the tips imparted in the video.

In 2005, a committee including Niswander was formed to build a safety-training program for liquid load haulers. Including safety specialists from several trucking companies, the group began by producing monthly workplace posters shar-ing safety tips. Then they designed skill cards covering a variety of safety topics that go out with drivers’ paychecks. To date, 180 companies, representing 10,000 drivers, have signed on to the program.

Though it was initially designed for over-the-road semi drivers, companies trans-porting liquid waste from gas, oil and min-ing operations or equipment to and from worker camps can participate in the safety program. It costs an average of $11 per driv-er per year. To learn more, go to the NTTC website, www.tanktruck.org.

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The video features several truckers who have been involved in rollover crashes,

and their stories carry a lot of weight with professional drivers, says John Conley, of the NTTC. Interspersed with the compelling driver stories, the video covers four major areas of risk for dangerous rollover accidents: vehicle design and performance, load effects, highway factors and driver factors.

Using animated graphics, the video shows the impact of sudden movements and tripping the wheels over the shoulder when carrying an unstable load. It explains how dangerous liquid slosh and surge can result from driving too fast for conditions, by squaring off the turning radius and by sudden braking or other maneuvers.

Safety First

Limit Risk With UnstabLe Loads New video for cargo tank drivers offers helpful safety reminders no matter what kind of loads your drivers are hauling

By Jim Kneiszel

tJim Kneiszel

“When you get so comfortable and think that you’ve been driving so long and you have so much

experience … that it all comes natural to you, you’re gonna mess up. Because something’s

going to get you when you’re not expecting it.”

G. Wayne Matheson

It goes on to explain that drivers are ulti-mately responsible for many of these factors. It stresses that drivers need to do extensive route planning if they’re carrying a load more prone to rollover risk. And the video shares a variety of tips that would be helpful to any hauler:

Know your limitations.Be aware of how loads with a high cen-

ter of gravity will react when you turn, hit a ramp or execute a braking maneuver. And understand that a full load is actually safer to transport than a partial load. The vast ma-jority of rollover crashes (94 percent) occur in rigs carrying partial liquid loads – as they are more susceptible to extreme sloshing and surging.

Manage your speed.Remember that speed limits and guide-

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Maintain your rig, route.Always perform thorough pre-trip in-

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Watch for driver fatigue.

It’s always a bad idea to drive when you’re tired, but it’s doubly dangerous when pulling top-heavy or liquid loads. Stay sharp by eating right, stopping frequently to stretch, getting plenty of sleep. Be mindful of clues that you need to take a break, includ-ing daydreaming, frequent yawning, heavy eyelids and head bobbing or drifting from your lane.

LISTEN TO THE PROIn the video, 33-year veteran driver G.

Wayne Matheson sounds the safety watch-word for fellow truck drivers.

“Anytime you speed up, you’re subject to mess up,” Matheson warns. “When you get so comfortable and think that you’ve been driving so long and you have so much

experience … that it all comes natural to you, you’re gonna mess up. Because some-thing’s going to get you when you’re not expecting it.” GOMC


hink about when you were a kid competing in an egg relay race at summer camp. You were never so

careful about carrying anything as you were holding that raw egg gingerly on a spoon as you lurched toward the finish line.

Now that you’re grown up and driv-ing and/or supervising other drivers hauling all sorts of important loads, you probably don’t compete in many egg relay races. But doesn’t it stand to reason that you’re a safer driver day-to-day if you imagine you’re al-ways carrying a precarious load down the road?

That’s what the producers of a new safety video aimed primarily at drivers haul-ing big liquid loads believe. They argue that

whether you pull a tank trailer, equipment trailer or other loads behind your tractor, you’ll gain potentially life- and load-saving advice by viewing the video, “Cargo Tank Driver Rollover Prevention,” produced joint-ly by the National Tank Truck Carriers and the American Trucking Association in coop-eration with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

You can see the video at www.fmcsa.dot.gov/about/outreach/cargo-tank-video.aspx. It’s also free to download and show to drivers as part of a safety-training program.

MUST-SEE VIDEOAs part of his work with the NTTC,

Steve Niswander, vice president of safety

policy and regulatory regulations for Groen-dyke Transport Inc., Enid, Okla., envisioned this video for tanker drivers to help reduce danger-ous rollovers. Groendyke runs about 1,000 tractors 70 million miles annually hauling mostly liquid haz-ardous materials.

Niswander argues the new video – the latest component of a national anti-rollover campaign –

is a must-see safety tool for drivers who pull tank trailers or trucks with fixed tanks. But he says any trucker who ever hauls an un-stable load or a load with a high center of gravity will benefit from the tips imparted in the video.

In 2005, a committee including Niswander was formed to build a safety-training program for liquid load haulers. Including safety specialists from several trucking companies, the group began by producing monthly workplace posters shar-ing safety tips. Then they designed skill cards covering a variety of safety topics that go out with drivers’ paychecks. To date, 180 companies, representing 10,000 drivers, have signed on to the program.

Though it was initially designed for over-the-road semi drivers, companies trans-porting liquid waste from gas, oil and min-ing operations or equipment to and from worker camps can participate in the safety program. It costs an average of $11 per driv-er per year. To learn more, go to the NTTC website, www.tanktruck.org.

TIPS & TECHNIQUES

The video features several truckers who have been involved in rollover crashes,

and their stories carry a lot of weight with professional drivers, says John Conley, of the NTTC. Interspersed with the compelling driver stories, the video covers four major areas of risk for dangerous rollover accidents: vehicle design and performance, load effects, highway factors and driver factors.

Using animated graphics, the video shows the impact of sudden movements and tripping the wheels over the shoulder when carrying an unstable load. It explains how dangerous liquid slosh and surge can result from driving too fast for conditions, by squaring off the turning radius and by sudden braking or other maneuvers.

Safety First

Limit Risk With UnstabLe Loads New video for cargo tank drivers offers helpful safety reminders no matter what kind of loads your drivers are hauling

By Jim Kneiszel

tJim Kneiszel

“When you get so comfortable and think that you’ve been driving so long and you have so much

experience … that it all comes natural to you, you’re gonna mess up. Because something’s

going to get you when you’re not expecting it.”

G. Wayne Matheson

It goes on to explain that drivers are ulti-mately responsible for many of these factors. It stresses that drivers need to do extensive route planning if they’re carrying a load more prone to rollover risk. And the video shares a variety of tips that would be helpful to any hauler:

Know your limitations.Be aware of how loads with a high cen-

ter of gravity will react when you turn, hit a ramp or execute a braking maneuver. And understand that a full load is actually safer to transport than a partial load. The vast ma-jority of rollover crashes (94 percent) occur in rigs carrying partial liquid loads – as they are more susceptible to extreme sloshing and surging.

Manage your speed.Remember that speed limits and guide-

lines at curves are meant for general motor-ists in good weather conditions, not for driv-ers pulling unstable loads. Fleet experts say truck drivers should maintain a speed at least 10 mph below the posted speed on curves. The faster you go, the more risk you have that a sudden adjustment will cause a rollover.

Maintain your rig, route.Always perform thorough pre-trip in-

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Watch for driver fatigue.

It’s always a bad idea to drive when you’re tired, but it’s doubly dangerous when pulling top-heavy or liquid loads. Stay sharp by eating right, stopping frequently to stretch, getting plenty of sleep. Be mindful of clues that you need to take a break, includ-ing daydreaming, frequent yawning, heavy eyelids and head bobbing or drifting from your lane.

LISTEN TO THE PROIn the video, 33-year veteran driver G.

Wayne Matheson sounds the safety watch-word for fellow truck drivers.

“Anytime you speed up, you’re subject to mess up,” Matheson warns. “When you get so comfortable and think that you’ve been driving so long and you have so much

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pump IT UPCanadian contractor Aquatech scrambles expert emergency teams and a wide array of job-specific equipment to drive a growing dewatering service in the mining sector

By Peter Kenter

Mine dewatering is an Aquatech specialty. Here, one of four Godwin HL5M 6-inch diesel pumps delivers 800 gpm at 300 feet total dynamic head in a phosphorous mine in northern Ontario. The four pumps feed a receiving pond, and an open 12-inch CD300M pump moves 3,000 gpm at 120 feet total dynamic head to transfer the water 1,500 feet away. (Photo courtesy of Aquatech Pump and Power Inc.)

AAligning itself with a major equipment supplier and dealer helps the

company access the tools and expertise it needs without risking too much capital. Aquatech is the distributor for Godwin Pumps of America in Ontario, Nunavut, Newfoundland and Eastern Labrador, all resource-rich territories. A recent purchase of Godwin by ITT Corporation has expanded the lineup of mine sector pumps.

The company is also a distributor for Hudig Pumps throughout Canada and the U.S., which has given Aquatech access to its oilless diesel and electric pumps for environmentally sensitive applications.

Aquatech concentrates on establishing close relationships with regulators, understanding complex environmental regulations and building a deep knowl-edge of dewatering and bypass methods and technologies.

ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY“In many cases, a lot of industrial development has caused regulators to lose

confidence in growth supported by a knowledge of environmental regulation,” says Andy Ingriselli, president of Aquatech. “It’s up to companies like ours to show them that we can help support growth in mining or any industry while protecting the environment. We keep up on all of the recent regulations, and we keep an open line of communication between the regulators and ourselves.”

The company is rapidly expanding its mining sector services, including quarry and mine dewatering, and tailing pond fluid transfer pumping. In addi-tion to mining calls, the company serves the construction industry, with offer-ings that include sewage and creek bypass pumping, contract dewatering, pond drainage, water main testing and flushing and new construction development. About 20 percent of the company’s contracts constitute emergency jobs.

“Mine dewatering is an entirely different type of business from construc-tion, because most mine operations are planned much farther in advance,” says Ingriselli. “Mine operators already know what type of water infiltration they’ll be dealing with as they excavate a new pit or quarry. We may still need to deliver the pumps on short notice, but we often understand what we need to do long before we get there.”

ACCESS TO PUMPS A KEYAccess to a variety of pumps, hoses and connectors is key to serving the

mining sector. Some mine locations have no access to the electrical power required to operate the pumps, so diesel units are used. For dewatering deep

AqUATECh PUMP ANd POwER INC., CONCORd, ONT., CANAdA PRESIdENT: Andy Ingriselli

FOUNdEd: 2007

MARKET AREA: Ontario and surrounding provinces, states

EMPLOYEES: 55

SERVICES: Mine dewatering, emergency pumping, storm/surface water pumping, sewage bypass pumping, creek bypass pumping, industrial pumping

AFFILIATIONS: Greater Toronto Sewer and Watermain Construction Association, Ontario Pollution Control Equipment Association

wEbSITE: www.aquatd.com

Raul Misa, operations manager, inspects Aquatech’s rotary drill head after maintenence was performed. Photo by Peter Kenter.

Aquatech Pump and Power, Inc. is a Canadian contracting business

establishing a reputation for quick responses to emergency dewatering and

bypass pumping service calls.

The company’s headquarters is located in Concord, Ontario, a suburb

of Toronto, but located within striking distance of mining operations in the

province’s north. A planned satellite office will place it directly in the heart

of Ontario mining country.

“ If you have a lake at the bottom of an open pit mine or quarry, it’s not enough to say you have the pumps to remove that water. Where are you going to put that water?

For some quarries you’re easily displacing 10 million gallons in a single day.”

Andy Ingriselli


shafts and tunnels, the contractor uses specialized high head electrical pumps that can remove water from as deep as 2,000 feet. Aquatech may also be asked to supply hoses and connectors that work with existing dewatering infrastructure.

In some cases, the most effective dewatering plan involves a combination of diesel and submersible electric pumps. For cold-weather jobs, pump opera-tions require heat tracing along the discharge pipe to ensure it doesn’t freeze up. Aquatech has offered dewatering services in weather as cold as -60 degrees F.

But knowing how and where to apply the pumps is critical.“Anyone can throw pumps at a mine dewatering project,” says Ingriselli.

“But the regulatory agencies are empowered to shut down any project they see as threatening the environment. We can do the assessment, apply for the permits, check the environmental regulations, deliver the equipment, operate it, and then decommission the job. We work closely with environmental con-sultants and engineers to make sure we understand what we’re doing.”

In Ontario, environmental regulations are generated at the federal, provin-cial and municipal levels, and regional conservation authorities also take some responsibility. The Ontario Water Resources Act provides signifi cant challenges. Designed to protect groundwater, the regulations prevent any party, including dewatering contractors, from removing in excess of 13,000 gallons of water from provincial aquifers in a single day without a water-taking permit. That includes mine dewatering operations.

dISPLACE A LAKE“If you have a lake at the bottom of an open pit mine or quarry, it’s not

enough to say you have the pumps to remove that water,” says Ingriselli. “Where are you going to put that water? For some quarries you’re easily displacing 10 million gallons in a single day.

“In many cases, you have to create a lake to displace a lake and it needs to be designed in such a way as to deal with all of the local environmental sensitivi-ties, including impact on wildlife and other watercourses,” he continues. “We also need to guarantee that we’re pumping only clean water with no sediment from excavations, pumping from the top down. The suction hose must always fl oat on top of the water and never sink to the bottom.”

If water is being diverted to an existing body of water, Aquatech engineers work with environmental regulators to fashion an acceptable dewatering plan. A marine biologist may be called in to determine the baseline turbidity of a lake or stream to ensure that dewatering operations have little impact on the environ-ment and local fi sh populations.

“In some cases you have to gently remove local wildlife,” he says. “On one recent project, two beavers had moved into the quarry. That the mine opera-tors placed such an emphasis on protecting local wildlife is a good thing, but it was a very expensive operation, holding up mining production for hours as we waited to catch a couple of beavers.”

NEw TEChNOLOGYThe company is currently working on newer wellpoint dewatering technol-

ogy, in which groundwater is extracted from multiple wells installed into the area requiring excavation. Instead of discharging to a sewer or surface feature, the discharge is redirected back into the aquifer, below ground. These tools are commonly used to dewater overburden to facilitate the construction of support-ing infrastructure on mine sites, as well as dewatering in support of open pit mines and mine shafts.

MARSHALLING THE TROOPS TO MEET AN EMERGENCY DEADLINE

It was 4 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon when the call came in to Aquatech Pump and Power, Inc., a Canadian company based in Concord, Ontario. Defying the odds, all four diesel pumps belonging to another contractor had broken down in an open-pit mine dewatering operation at the Agrium Kapuskasing Phosphate Operations in Kapuskasing, about 500 miles to the north.

The quarry excavation consisted of four separate digs approximately 240 feet below the ground surface. The mining operation is under steady water recharge, quickly returning to its fl ooded condition unless the quarry is aggressively dewatered.

“The need was urgent,” says Andy Ingriselli, president of Aquatech. “The client had attempted to source replacement pumps across the province, but they hadn’t found a company that could supply pumps of that size and they needed them by 7 a.m. Saturday morning.”DIESEL PUMPS TO THE RESCUE

Further complicating the request, there was no electrical power at this remote location, so pumping equipment needed to be diesel powered. The pumps were required to handle varying volumes and off er a signifi cant Total Dynamic Head (TDH) – the vertical distance the water needed to be pumped.

While Ingriselli discussed the client’s needs, Aquatech engineers got on the phone with mining company staff to calculate pump requirements.

“We determined that the four broken pumps could be replaced by three large specialized pumps,” says Ingriselli. “We earmarked two Godwin Diesel HL5M and one Godwin Diesel CD300M pump to address the project requirements.”

The fi rst HL5M could pump 500 gpm at 400 feet, while the second HL5M would pump 1,100 gpm at 250 feet. The CD300M would pump 3,000 gpm at 120 feet. These large pumps, totaling 575 horsepower of Caterpillar diesel engine power, were parked in Aquatech’s yard and ready to ship.

The mining company was unable to source a truck to pick up the equipment required to make the 10-hour trip, so Aquatech staff quickly located two third-party transports. One was hired out of Sudbury, four hours away, and another from Stouff ville, about 10 miles away.

The three large pumps arrived at the mine site 39 hours after the emergency call was made.

“They had everything prepared at a staging area at the quarry and the crews were able to connect the new pumps online and aggressively drain the excavation,” says Ingriselli. “The mining operations resumed to meet the production schedule and we were able to enjoy hero status for the rest of the week.”

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Rental equipment is a signifi cant part of Aquatech’s business. One of the company’s diesel mechanics is shown working on a sound-attenuated diesel pump. (Photo by Peter Kenter)

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“Effectively it is like taking the water out of the ground from the area of planned work and putting it back in to the ground some-where else,” he says.

Extraction of ground-water requires environmen-

tal permits, as does the discharge if groundwater is re-injected into an aquifer. “The water quality must meet the same stringent objectives of provincial

standards,” says Ingriselli. “Typically this means it must be pristine. Treatment of the discharge water is always a consideration, whether discharged to the surface or into the aquifer.”

Aquatech also specializes in pumping equipment designed for use in heavy-duty pumping applications, such as pumping slurries with a high con-tent of abrasive solids. The company has recently become the Eastern Canada distributor for Italian pump manufacturer Dragflow.

“These pumps are very effective when transferring the material in a tail-ings pond for the purposes of maintaining, cleaning or recapturing the tailings themselves,” says Ingriselli. “Dragflow slurry pumps are specifically designed to pick up solids, mixing them into a high density slurry and pumping them all in one operation. With these units, we can pump as much as 70 percent solids by weight, with slurries containing solids as large as five inches in diameter.”

bUILdING A REPUTATIONAlthough some contract leads are supplied by the dealer network, Aquat-

ech promotes itself largely by word of mouth, and its mobile fleet features an aggressive corporate design. “There’s no better way to promote yourself than to provide your services professionally,” says Ingriselli. “Most dewatering op-portunities in this industry are generated from relationships established, and the experience, recognition and reputation of the dewatering services provider.”

The company is opening a full-service branch in Sudbury, Ontario, this year. “This branch will develop into our main depot for pumping services re-lated to mine applications,” says Ingriselli. “It will offer a variety of services im-mediately, including a full line of diesel, electric and hydraulic pumps available for sale or rental, as well as full turnkey services utilizing the equipment for fluid transfer and dewatering services.”

One challenge for the business is finding employees willing to drop what they’re doing and head to work for emergencies or to travel to remote loca-tions. Some mine dewatering contracts require only a few workers to operate the pumps that have been patched into an existing system. The largest mine dewatering operation requires a dozen people to operate the entire system, as they set up camp to remain for weeks on a 24/7 basis.

“It takes a special kind of dedication to leave the house just as the roast is coming out of the oven and your family is sitting down to Sunday dinner,” says branch manager Norm Metcalfe. “You can have all the pumps in the world, and all the support from distributors, but we’ve got nothing if we don’t have people at all levels, from engineers, to truck yard, to sales to the executives, ready to step up to the plate and assume responsibility for their part of the operation.” GOMC

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“You can have all the pumps in the world, and all the

support from distributors, but we’ve got nothing if we

don’t have people at all levels, from engineers, to truck

yard, to sales to the executives, ready to step up to the

plate and assume responsibility for their part of

the operation.”

Norm Metcalfe

Left, the Aquatech team mobilizes to address a blocked sanitary sewer requiring bypass pumping. Right, an example of Aquatech’s quarry mine dewatering efforts which pumped 8.6 mgd. (Photos courtesy of Aquatech Pump and Power Inc.)

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“Effectively it is like taking the water out of the ground from the area of planned work and putting it back in to the ground some-where else,” he says.

Extraction of ground-water requires environmen-

tal permits, as does the discharge if groundwater is re-injected into an aquifer. “The water quality must meet the same stringent objectives of provincial

standards,” says Ingriselli. “Typically this means it must be pristine. Treatment of the discharge water is always a consideration, whether discharged to the surface or into the aquifer.”

Aquatech also specializes in pumping equipment designed for use in heavy-duty pumping applications, such as pumping slurries with a high con-tent of abrasive solids. The company has recently become the Eastern Canada distributor for Italian pump manufacturer Dragflow.

“These pumps are very effective when transferring the material in a tail-ings pond for the purposes of maintaining, cleaning or recapturing the tailings themselves,” says Ingriselli. “Dragflow slurry pumps are specifically designed to pick up solids, mixing them into a high density slurry and pumping them all in one operation. With these units, we can pump as much as 70 percent solids by weight, with slurries containing solids as large as five inches in diameter.”

bUILdING A REPUTATIONAlthough some contract leads are supplied by the dealer network, Aquat-

ech promotes itself largely by word of mouth, and its mobile fleet features an aggressive corporate design. “There’s no better way to promote yourself than to provide your services professionally,” says Ingriselli. “Most dewatering op-portunities in this industry are generated from relationships established, and the experience, recognition and reputation of the dewatering services provider.”

The company is opening a full-service branch in Sudbury, Ontario, this year. “This branch will develop into our main depot for pumping services re-lated to mine applications,” says Ingriselli. “It will offer a variety of services im-mediately, including a full line of diesel, electric and hydraulic pumps available for sale or rental, as well as full turnkey services utilizing the equipment for fluid transfer and dewatering services.”

One challenge for the business is finding employees willing to drop what they’re doing and head to work for emergencies or to travel to remote loca-tions. Some mine dewatering contracts require only a few workers to operate the pumps that have been patched into an existing system. The largest mine dewatering operation requires a dozen people to operate the entire system, as they set up camp to remain for weeks on a 24/7 basis.

“It takes a special kind of dedication to leave the house just as the roast is coming out of the oven and your family is sitting down to Sunday dinner,” says branch manager Norm Metcalfe. “You can have all the pumps in the world, and all the support from distributors, but we’ve got nothing if we don’t have people at all levels, from engineers, to truck yard, to sales to the executives, ready to step up to the plate and assume responsibility for their part of the operation.” GOMC

Caterpillar, Inc.309/675-1000www.cat.com

Dragflowwww.dragflow.it

Godwin Pumps of America, Inc.856/467-3636www.godwinpumps.com(See ad page 3)

Hudig Pumpswww.huedig.de/en

more info

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“You can have all the pumps in the world, and all the

support from distributors, but we’ve got nothing if we

don’t have people at all levels, from engineers, to truck

yard, to sales to the executives, ready to step up to the

plate and assume responsibility for their part of

the operation.”

Norm Metcalfe

Left, the Aquatech team mobilizes to address a blocked sanitary sewer requiring bypass pumping. Right, an example of Aquatech’s quarry mine dewatering efforts which pumped 8.6 mgd. (Photos courtesy of Aquatech Pump and Power Inc.)

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Versatile VacuumTank truck manufacturers provide the power and capacity to load and carry the most demanding oil field sludge, mining slurries and semisolid materials By Ed Wodalski

When it comes to sucking up slurry, excavating around pipelines or carrying corrosive cargo, you need a tank and pump combination to safely and efficiently get the job done. Here’s a look at some of the many options available, from lightweight and corrosion-resistant tanks to the most powerful pumps, blowers, hydroexcavating units, hydraulic hoists and time-saving accessories.

AdvAnce PumP & equiPment inc.

The Advance Industrial line of vacuum tanks from Advance Pump & Equipment Inc. are avail-able in aluminum or stainless steel and feature NVE 4310 blowers (850 cfm and 27 inches Hg). Other features include combination front-mounted hoist cylinder, vibrator and full-opening rear door with rubberized wing-nut closures. The truck has lightweight, polished aluminum hose trays for greater payload capacity, stainless steel tray supports, heavy-duty rear bumper with steps, stainless steel splash pan and tow hook, LED sealed lighting system, rear halogen work lights with “on in reverse” wiring, internal primary pipe for a clean look, full-length bed liner and in-cab stainless steel control console. 877/557-7867; www.advancepump.com.

AdvAnced tAnk SyStemS inc.

The 60-barrel (2,500 gallons), one-compartment Matador vacuum tank truck from Advanced Tank Systems Inc. is built on an International Model 440, 33,000-pound GVW chassis with 4400 automatic transmission. The tank features 5/16-inch shell and heads and is epoxy coated on the in-side for longer life. It has 20-inch manways top and rear, 4-inch inlet and 6-inch discharge in the rear with rear and front passenger-side riser pipes. Other features include Betts slider valves, Masport HXL 400 water-cooled pump system with deodorizer, full-length aluminum hose troughs on each side of the tank, hot-shift PTO and LED lights with two work lights in the rear. 410/752-5411; www. advancedtanksystems.com.

Allied tAnk co. The VT Series of vacuum tank trucks from Allied Tank Co. are available in aluminum or stainless steel

with aluminum hose trays and cabinetry. Sizes range from 35 barrels (1,500 gallons) to 130 barrels (5,500 gallons) in straight trucks and trailers up to 165 barrels (7,000 gallons). Allied’s 130-barrel truck with Kenworth tri-axle chassis has a 78,000 GVW. A variety of Masport pumps or NVE blowers are available. Features include water-resistant, heated custom-sized cabinets, onboard washdown and pressure washer systems. The trucks offer full-opening rear, hydraulic lift systems or roll-off assemblies. Multiple compart-ment or external supply tanks, radio-based remote control packages and additional suction or pressure ports are available. Additional features include SeeLevel external digital tank volume readout and Airweigh system to calculate weight on the axles. 800/355-1300; www.alliedtank.com.

BoSSermAn AviAtion equiPment inc. Vacuum tank trucks from Bosserman Aviation Equipment Inc. have proximity switches for

interlocking cabinets, valves, gates or doors that indicate if an item is in use. Pressure transducers installed at the pump or blower indicate how much pressure or vacuum is on the system when the vacuum truck is in use. Ultrasonic level systems provide a mechanical-device-free look at tank levels regardless of the liquid or solid being hauled. Data logging devices, GPS tracking, automated text messaging or data transmission enable the home office to view operator status. 419/396-6256; www. bossermanaviationequip.com.

creScent tAnk mfg. The rectangular vacuum tank from Crescent Tank Mfg. features a low-profile design for a lower cen-

ter of gravity, freeing up bed space for hauling pipe, welding equipment, additional water tanks or other equipment. Liquid waste is held in the rectangular tank with freshwater in a separate poly tank. The vacuum tank can be configured for any combination of waste and water or recovery oil with volumes from 2 to 48 barrels (100 to 2,000 gallons). 585/657-4104; www.crescent-tank.com.

HeritAge truck equiPmentThe 110-barrel (4,620 gallons) steel vacuum tank from Heritage Truck Equipment features 1/4-inch SA-36

walls, 5/16-inch flanged and dished heads, three interior reinforced baffles with crawl hole, full-length formed double leg sills with 2-inch no-slip grooved rubber cushion, industrial-coated steel trays with hose tie-downs and polished steel trim. Other features include industrial-coated tank carriage and lower sides, rear-mounted dual oversize hose hangers, Fruitland RCF500 vacuum pump Eliminator package with integrated filter, 12-inch low-profile primary shutoff with 3-inch hose connection and 10-gallon secondary moisture trap with 3-inch hose connection. The tank also has top- and rear-access manways, heavy-duty rear bumper with storage com-partments, center pull ring and cable straps, stainless steel tray-mounted toolbox, epoxy interior tank coating, heated vale collars, dual rear center and front side 4-inch load/discharge valves, 4-inch inspection port on top, three 5-inch rear sight glasses, 1-inch front-mounted sight glass, SeeLevel tank volume indicator, tank access ladders on both sides and multicolor strobe light package. 330/699-4491; www.heritagetruck.com.

gAPvAx inc.The HV56 Series hydroexcavator from GapVax Inc. is a multipurpose vacuum system designed for

wet and dry use. The unit has a 15-cubic-yard debris body made from 1/4-inch ASTM A572 Grade 50 Exten steel. The positive displacement blower is rated at 5,300 cfm at 28 inches Hg. Water tank sizes range from 350 to 1,200 gallons with a water pressure rating of 1,000 to 4,000 psi and waterjet flow of 3 to 40 gpm. The fully opening tailgate is field adjustable with Sure Seal to prevent leakage. Easy access cleanouts with field-adjustable components and 25-foot boom are standard. Options include auger unloading system, sludge pump, liquid level load indicator, Hi-Rail system, water heater, extra tool-boxes and additional work lights. 888/442-7829; www.gapvax.com.

drAgon ProductSThe Super Lightweight non-code 130-barrel (5,460 gallons) vacuum tanker from Dragon Products is

designed for maximum capacity with less chance of being overweight when carrying non-hazardous oil field fluids and materials. Weighing in at 14,620 pounds, the tanker is nearly 4,000 pounds lighter than the com-pany’s comparable Super Duty steel tanker. Weight savings is achieved through the unit’s 3/16-inch shell. Aluminum hose pads on both sides shed additional pounds, while overall integrity is maintained through the use of 1/4-inch heads, 1/4-inch baffles, full-length padded frame and eight 3/8- by 2 1/2-inch external rolled stiffener rings. The tanker has two manways on top and one on the rear head – all 21-inch domed style with plated swing bolts and wing nuts. The unit has a ball-type primary shutoff in the front manway and ball-type 12-gallon secondary with drain on the front driver’s side. Other features include 2-inch sight glasses in the front and rear head and three-point or four-spring suspension with eight Hutch 9700 low arch leaf springs and 22,500-pound axles. Air-ride suspension is available. 800/231-8198; www.dragonproductsltd.com.


ledwell & SonThe Hurricane 900 tractor-mounted, liquid-cooled unit from Ledwell & Son is designed to vac-

uum heavy sludges and semisolids for an extended period of time. The 130-barrel (5,460 gallons) transport trailer features quick-dump off-loading capability with hydraulically operated, full-opening rear door. Other features include front tank hoist and door-mounted, full-length auger. Both the Hur-ricane 900 and transport trailer can be certified to ASME/DOT 412 specifications. 903/838-6531; www.ledwell.com.

Pik rite inc. Vacuum tanks and trailers from Pik Rite Inc. (28-131 barrels; 1,000-5,500 gallons) feature 12-inch,

low-profile primary shutoff with stainless steel float ball, internal piping from primary to secondary trap, 20-inch top manway, 20-inch rear manway with 6-inch discharge valve and camlock fittings, second-ary shutoff with stainless steel float ball and frame-mounted final filter and cleanable oil catch muffler. Other features include vacuum and pressure relief valves, 4-inch liquid-filled vacuum/pressure gauge, four 5-inch sight glasses, 4-inch removable intake with valve and camlock fittings, sample port with 3/4-inch ball valve, LED light package, full-length hose trays, hose hooks and backup alarm. Units also have heated valve jackets, toolboxes and heavy-duty bumpers. 800/326-9763; www.pikrite.com.

PreSvAc SyStemS ltd. Power Vac truck or trailer-mounted units from Presvac Systems Ltd. are designed to collect, transport and

dump a range of hazardous liquids, sludges or slurries. Features include tri-lobe blowers with airflow capacities of 500 to 1,600 cfm available with acoustically attenuating enclosure. All blowers are capable of 27 inches Hg vacuum (367 inches or 30.6 feet of water column) and able to run for extended periods to draw materials for horizontal distances and vertical pulls with the aid of injected air. Blowers are driven by either belt or piston-style hydraulic pump and motor combination to minimize heat generation. Hydraulic-drive systems have soft stop to eliminate shock loading. The units are available in carbon or stainless steel and are designed to meet ASME pressure standards with a maximum internal pressure retention of 35 psi. Aluminum units are available for non-hazardous materials. Tank sizes range from 12 to 190 barrels (500-8,000 gallons) with tipping hoist system. Options include manual and six-way hydraulically powered loading booms, top manway with ladder, walkway and safety enclosure, sampling or dip port, high-pressure washdown with 70-gallon water tank, heated valves and hydraulically powered transfer pumps. 800/387-7763; www.presvac.com.

mArSH induStriAlSeptic service and DOT hazardous truck and trailer-mounted units from Marsh Industrial feature

carbon, stainless steel and aluminum tanks. All tank seams are welded inside and out with an automatic exterior weld for a smooth look. Lighting packages are sealed to resist corrosion. Baffles are mounted on stress-relief pads. Other features include hydraulic hoist with full-opening rear door, heavy-duty stay bolts and safety prop. A complete line of PTO or hydraulically driven vacuum pumps and high-capacity blowers are available, along with a variety of jetters and pressure washers. 800/952-1537; www.marshind.com.

keevAc induStrieS inc.The Oil Field Unit 4,200-gallon vacuum truck with aluminum tank from KeeVac Industries Inc.

features a .26-inch 5454-H32 aluminum alloy shell. The head is .3558-inch 5454 aluminum alloy flanged and AMSE dished. The tank has three baffles and two 20-inch manways. Other features include 4-inch inlet, 6-inch dump and 400-cfm (vacuum/pressure) NVE 866 vacuum pump with primary shut-off. The tank is mounted on a 2011 Freightliner chassis with 450-hp engine, 10-speed transmission, 20,000-pound front axle and 44,000-pound rear axle (including differential lock). The truck has heated valves, pusher axle, LED lighting and heavy-duty rear bumper. 866/789-9440; www.keevac.com.

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SuPer ProductS llcThe Supersucker vacuum truck from Super Products LLC offers high-power airflow to convey solids,

liquids, sludges and slurries through suction lines up to 8 inches in diameter. Measuring 35 feet long, 12 feet high and 8 feet wide, the unit features positive displacement vacuum pumps with ductile iron impellers and high temperature seals for airflow from 5,000 to 6,000 cfm and 0-28 inches Hg. Single-mode filtration enables the loading of wet or dry material with no changeover required. The reverse air pulsation system continuously cleans the 60 snap-ring type, acrylic-coated filter bags. Offering 18-cubic-yard payload capacity, the unit features 1/4-inch steel construction throughout the body and filter chambers. Other features include a telescopic, double-acting cylinder with 51-degree dump angle. The body, baghouses and separator chamber hydraulically raise together. 800/837-9711; www.superproductscorp.com.

StAHlyThe Eliminator 5500 biosolids applicator from Stahly has a 450-hp engine and Allison automatic or

manual transmission mounted on a Navistar high-flotation chassis. The interior of the 131-barrel (5,500 gallons), 78-inch diameter, 5/16-inch carbon steel tank and its components are coated with Tinemac corrosion treatment. Other features include a NVE Challenger model 65, 375-cfm pump with 8 psi and 3-inch secondary. Options include diesel flush pump kit, 5-inch sight glasses and stainless steel float-ball level indicators, 12-inch tank primary with stainless steel ball and seat, two 25-inch manways with grease-able turn-wheels, full-welded 6- to 80-inch Schedule 80 plumbing, 6-inch air-operated knife valves and 6-inch backup valves. The unit has an optional rear spray deflector or injection toolbar with or without monitoring capabilities and/or variable-rate GPS controller. 800/678-2459; www.stahly.com.

SAtellite induStrieS inc. High tensile-steel vacuum tanks from Satellite Industries Inc. are abrasion resistant and designed

for off-road applications. Available in 38- to 143-barrel (1,600-6,000 gallons) models, options include hoists and full-opening rear doors. Pump options range from rotary vane vacuum pumps to high vacuum blowers. Storage options are available in aluminum, stainless and carbon steel. 800/328-3332; www.satelliteindustries.com.

ruSH refuSe SyStemSThe 2011-2012 Model 388 Peterbilt vacuum truck from Rush Refuse Systems with 110-barrel (4,700 gal-

lons) Pik Rite Inc. tank features a Cummins ISX 15 500-hp engine, 1,850 ft-lb of torque, engine brake, 18-speed transmission, 20,000-pound front axle and 46,000-pound rear axle. Other features include full-locking rear dif-ferential, Bendix automatic traction control, 20,000-pound steerable pusher, aluminum wheels, cab air suspen-sion, dual 24-inch exhaust stacks, dual stainless steel 13-inch air cleaners, polished stainless steel front bumper with heavy-duty tow eye, CD player and four Hadley air horns. The carbon-steel tank has an epoxy-coated interior, Jurop LC-420 vacuum pump (424 cfm), 20-inch top and rear manways, polished aluminum hose trays, LED lights, heated valves, sample port, aluminum toolbox, butterfly valves and camlocks, overflow port, four sight glasses and heavy-duty rear bumper. 877/661-4511; www.rushrefusesystems.com.

SuPervAc 2000The SVHT6400 hydroexcavator from Supervac 2000 has a 3,000-gallon (71 barrel), carbon-steel

debris tank, ASME/DOT 407-412 positive-displacement blower (6,400-cfm at 27 inches Hg), double-insulated polypropylene 1,250-gallon water tank, two cyclones and 6,500-cfm cartridge filter, 6,000-psi, 10-gpm water pump, 525,000 Btu 12-volt boiler, and 26-foot radius hydraulic boom. Other features include hydraulic door locks, insulated enclosure (less than 85 dba), recirculation water pump and 100-foot hydraulic hose reel. 866/839-5702; www.supervac2000.com.

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SuPer ProductS llcThe Supersucker vacuum truck from Super Products LLC offers high-power airflow to convey solids,

liquids, sludges and slurries through suction lines up to 8 inches in diameter. Measuring 35 feet long, 12 feet high and 8 feet wide, the unit features positive displacement vacuum pumps with ductile iron impellers and high temperature seals for airflow from 5,000 to 6,000 cfm and 0-28 inches Hg. Single-mode filtration enables the loading of wet or dry material with no changeover required. The reverse air pulsation system continuously cleans the 60 snap-ring type, acrylic-coated filter bags. Offering 18-cubic-yard payload capacity, the unit features 1/4-inch steel construction throughout the body and filter chambers. Other features include a telescopic, double-acting cylinder with 51-degree dump angle. The body, baghouses and separator chamber hydraulically raise together. 800/837-9711; www.superproductscorp.com.

StAHlyThe Eliminator 5500 biosolids applicator from Stahly has a 450-hp engine and Allison automatic or

manual transmission mounted on a Navistar high-flotation chassis. The interior of the 131-barrel (5,500 gallons), 78-inch diameter, 5/16-inch carbon steel tank and its components are coated with Tinemac corrosion treatment. Other features include a NVE Challenger model 65, 375-cfm pump with 8 psi and 3-inch secondary. Options include diesel flush pump kit, 5-inch sight glasses and stainless steel float-ball level indicators, 12-inch tank primary with stainless steel ball and seat, two 25-inch manways with grease-able turn-wheels, full-welded 6- to 80-inch Schedule 80 plumbing, 6-inch air-operated knife valves and 6-inch backup valves. The unit has an optional rear spray deflector or injection toolbar with or without monitoring capabilities and/or variable-rate GPS controller. 800/678-2459; www.stahly.com.

SAtellite induStrieS inc. High tensile-steel vacuum tanks from Satellite Industries Inc. are abrasion resistant and designed

for off-road applications. Available in 38- to 143-barrel (1,600-6,000 gallons) models, options include hoists and full-opening rear doors. Pump options range from rotary vane vacuum pumps to high vacuum blowers. Storage options are available in aluminum, stainless and carbon steel. 800/328-3332; www.satelliteindustries.com.

ruSH refuSe SyStemSThe 2011-2012 Model 388 Peterbilt vacuum truck from Rush Refuse Systems with 110-barrel (4,700 gal-

lons) Pik Rite Inc. tank features a Cummins ISX 15 500-hp engine, 1,850 ft-lb of torque, engine brake, 18-speed transmission, 20,000-pound front axle and 46,000-pound rear axle. Other features include full-locking rear dif-ferential, Bendix automatic traction control, 20,000-pound steerable pusher, aluminum wheels, cab air suspen-sion, dual 24-inch exhaust stacks, dual stainless steel 13-inch air cleaners, polished stainless steel front bumper with heavy-duty tow eye, CD player and four Hadley air horns. The carbon-steel tank has an epoxy-coated interior, Jurop LC-420 vacuum pump (424 cfm), 20-inch top and rear manways, polished aluminum hose trays, LED lights, heated valves, sample port, aluminum toolbox, butterfly valves and camlocks, overflow port, four sight glasses and heavy-duty rear bumper. 877/661-4511; www.rushrefusesystems.com.

SuPervAc 2000The SVHT6400 hydroexcavator from Supervac 2000 has a 3,000-gallon (71 barrel), carbon-steel

debris tank, ASME/DOT 407-412 positive-displacement blower (6,400-cfm at 27 inches Hg), double-insulated polypropylene 1,250-gallon water tank, two cyclones and 6,500-cfm cartridge filter, 6,000-psi, 10-gpm water pump, 525,000 Btu 12-volt boiler, and 26-foot radius hydraulic boom. Other features include hydraulic door locks, insulated enclosure (less than 85 dba), recirculation water pump and 100-foot hydraulic hose reel. 866/839-5702; www.supervac2000.com.

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truck workS inc. Aluminum, steel and stainless steel vacuum tanks from Truck Works Inc. are available in 24- to

119-barrel (1,000-5,000 gallons) capacities. Tanks include flanged and dished ASME-style heads and baffles. Tanks can be mounted on a truck chassis or skids for roll-off units. Roll-off tank sizes range up to 143 barrels (6,000 gallons). Pumps include engine-driven, air-cooled units or gasoline-powered vacuum systems. 602/233-3713; www.truckworksinc.com.

wAStequiP cuScoThe Cusco Hydro-Trencher from Wastequip Cusco is designed for hydroexcavating around oil

and gas pipelines, installing fiber optic cables, repairing utility lines or excavating in remote areas with limited access. The trencher uses hydroboring and vacuum to remove liquids, sludge, slurries, mud, gravel and other solid waste. Features include cyclonic filtration technology, airflow ratings of 3,500 to 5,500 cfm and 28 inches Hg. The unit has a wash pump capable of 18 gpm at 3,000 psi and high-pressure waterjetting. Tank volume ranges from 71 to 83 barrels (3,000 to 3,500 gallons). Op-tions include high-pressure wash system, stainless steel tank, heated valves, enclosed hot water burner system and storage cabinets/stand-up lockers. 800/490-3541; www.wastequip-cusco.com/products/ liquid-waste-equipment/hydro-trencher-series.html. GOMC

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tHomPSon tAnk inc.The Model WT-SS/MS-5000-80000, 119-barrel (5,000 gallons) semi-trailer-mounted vacuum pressure

unit from Thompson Tank Inc. is ASME/DOT 407-412 certified and stamped for 50 psi internal and full vacuum psi external MAWP (maximum allowable working pressure). Designed for handling flammable and corrosive waste, liquid and semisolids, the unit has primary and secondary float shutoff valves, centrifugal sepa-rator scrubber and vacuum-pressure regulator that prevents material from entering the vacuum-pressure pump assembly. All wetted parts are made of 316-ELC stainless steel with the tank wall made from 1/4-inch plate stainless steel. Other features include Thompson VC-565-M4R pump package driven by a Deutz D-914-L03 air-cooled diesel engine with Funk clutch reduction gear, made to continuously operate at 50 psi without over-heating. Inlet and discharge assemblies are located at the rear, approximately 36 inches above ground level for easier hose assembly. Side-mounted catwalks designed for interior washout are available with OSHA-type safety rails and toe plates with rear access. 800/421-7545; www.thompsontank.com.


or years, David Ridgeway has been searching for the perfect gunnite rig – one that could boost productivity and profitability as well as shoot the lighter-weight refractory that his company, Heater Fabricators of Tulsa, uses to insulate fired heaters and boilers at oil refineries and other indus-

trial plants.The president of the Tulsa, Okla.-based company finally found his ideal

business-partner-on-wheels: the Dampcon rig made by the Blastcrete Equip-ment Co. in Anniston, Ala. Initially custom-designed for Heater Fabricators, the unit is now a member of the Blastcrete product line.

“The other three gunnite rigs we have are better suited for shooting heavier, coarser material than what we use, which is anywhere from 1,800-degree to 3,000-degree gunnite material,” says Ridgeway, whose company manufactures fired heaters and boilers for petrochemical plants around the world, as well as relines and reconditions older units. “So we were looking for a custom-built rig.”

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The Dampcon predampening and gunning system, which predampens and spray-applies dry-process shotcrete material, features a 29-hp water-cooled Kubota diesel engine located toward the hitch-end of a tandem-axle flatbed trailer. (The machine is also available with a 30-hp electric motor and as a skid-

mounted unit.) Ridgeway says that location is preferable to an engine based under the variable-speed conveyor belt that moves the dampened refractory into a hopper, also known as a rotary Piccola gun, which then forces the mate-rial through the hose for application.

“When the engine is under the conveyor, all the dirt and dribs and slop fall off the conveyor and clog up the radiators, which makes the engine run hot,” Ridgeway explains. “It tears up the engine.”

Another productivity benefit is the swing-out mixing chamber at the base of the conveyor, which allows easy access for cleaning the machine. Better cleaning results in improved machine longevity, he says.

“When you’re finished with a job, there’s a lot of debris laying there,” Ridgeway notes. “And if the chamber is fixed in place, someone has to crawl under and lay there while they chip off dried cement. It can take hours, but now our guys can do it in about 15 minutes because it’s so accessible. When you’re paying by the man-hour, that’s big.”

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GunninG For ProFitsEase of use and greater application control make the Dampcon gunnite rig from

Blastcrete Equipment an efficient moneymaker for an Oklahoma contractor

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Heater Fabricators of Tulsa, Tulsa, Okla.MACHINE: Dampcon rig made by Blastcrete Equipment Co.

FEAturEs: 9-cubic-foot, paddle-style, swing-out mixing chamber; Piccola rotary gunnite machine; forward-located, 29-hp, water-cooled Kubota diesel engine; trailer- or skid-mount availability.

Cost: $49,500The Dampcon rig from Blastcrete Equipment is Heater Fabricators’ business-partner-on-wheels. (Photos courtesy of Heater Fabricators)

In addition, the 9-cubic-foot capacity, paddle-style mixing chamber is more than twice as big as most other units, which allows Heater Fabricators to run more product per hour. “I’d say we run a minimum of 30 percent more product per hour than before,” Ridgeway says. “On an average job, that ups our profit by about $4,000 per shift.”

Ridgeway also praises the durability of the unit, which the company purchased about a year ago. He says the rugged Kubota engine sometimes runs “wide open, 24/7,” for a month at a time.

A trolley system under the Piccola gun allows the unit to slide from under the end of the conveyor over to the engine for easier cleanup and maintenance. That also makes the unit easier to transport because it more evenly distributes the weight across the entire trailer, he says.

EASY TO USERidgeway also points out the machine’s conve-

niently located controls, which allow an operator to stand on the ground and reach all critical controls from less than an arm’s length away.

Easy-to-reach controls are important because the gunnite material must be properly predampened before it reaches the Piccola gun. At the end of the hose, a nozzle operator adds more water to produce the correct consistency for spraying.

It takes three crewmembers to run the machine. One stands at the back and premixes the refractory

material with water, making it just wet enough to flow up the conveyor and run through the hose. Another stands at the control panel and determines conveyor speed, and the nozzle operator applies the refractory.

“It’s not something that someone can just walk up and start doing,” Ridge-way says. “It’s a craft that takes years of experience to do well.”

Overall, Ridgeway says the Dampcon rig has become an indispensable tool for Heater Fabricators.

“This is our number one piece of equipment in that part of our business,” he says. “It’s the machine our operators always want to use. It’s extremely central to our operations.” GoMC

“I’d say we run a minimum of 30 percent

more product per hour than before. On

an average job, that ups our profit by

about $4,000 per shift.”

David ridgeway

The Dampcon rig’s conveniently located controls allow an opera-tor stand on the ground and reach all critical controls from less than an arm’s length away.


hould I buy that car or lease it? Can I afford this new house? How much money should I set aside for emer-

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Those used to be fairly involved and dif-ficult calculations. Now they’re quite easy, thanks to financial calculators widely avail-able on the Internet. With a few basic pieces of information in hand, you can generate the figures to support all kinds of financial deci-sions.

You don’t have to know the formula. You just have to enter the data, and the pro-gram does the math for you. Of course, the numbers alone won’t always resolve the key issue at hand. For example, the numbers may tell you it’s better to invest more money than to pay extra on your mortgage principal – but you may simply like the idea of being mortgage-free sooner. And if so, fine.

Still, it’s nice to go into a financial deci-sion with the hard figures in hand – armed

with data instead of just hunches, or “gut feel,” or some advice you got from a financial planner (who may not be without personal bias).

Easy to findYou can find these calculators easily. For

example, most real estate websites will have

a mortgage calculator to figure your monthly payment on the house you want to buy. Car, boat and recreational vehicle dealer websites have similar calculators.

And that’s just the beginning. A simple Internet search under “financial calculators” will bring up numerous sites that offer doz-ens to hundreds of calculators for almost any purpose you can imagine. For example:

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WhEn to rEtirE

Among the most popular cal-culators are those that tell you how much you need

to save to retire, or how soon you can retire at your current rate of saving and pattern of investing. Of course, these illustrate a pitfall of putting too much faith in calculators: By definition, they are based on certain sets of assumptions that may or may not apply to you and how you plan to live your life.

For example, I ran the retirement

calculator on Yahoo! and found that I need to save 48 percent of my annual income from now on if I want to retire at age 65. That might send me into deep despair, unless I considered the assumptions behind the result. The key assumption is that I plan a traditional retirement, where you build up a big pile of money and coast on it from age 65 until you die.

My “retirement” plans differ from that model in important ways. Most significant: I’m a writer by trade, I enjoy the work, and I expect to do it for pay, at some level, for as long as I have my health and faculties. That greatly changes the calculus. It may be the same for many people who own GOM sup-port service businesses: They may prefer to dial back the workload but stay involved to some degree for many years.

taking a tEst spin

It’s worth a few minutes to give some of these calculators a try. By doing so, you get a feel for their capabilities and limitations.

One of the most popular calculators on Yahoo! is labeled, “How much will college cost?” It’s really about the feasibility of repay-ing student loans based on income from a first full-time job. You and your college-age kids might enjoy trying this one. I plugged in the four necessary figures:

Anticipated initial income on gradua-tion: $30,000

• Initial loan amount: $30,000• Interest rate: 8 percent• Payment period: 120 months (10

years)The calculator responded: “Your esti-

mated monthly loan repayments are $364, which equate to 14.6 percent of your antici-pated monthly income. This appears to be within reasonable limits based upon your anticipated income and debt repayments.”

Then I tried: “How long will it take to pay off my credit card?” The necessary fig-ures are:

• Initial credit card balance: $10,000• Annual percentage rate: 18 percent• Minimum payment percentage: 2

percent• Minimum payment amount: $200• Skip December payment when of-

fered? Yes• Additional payment amount: $0The calculator responded: “By only

Ted J. Rulseh

On the Money

Just a CliCk away?Financial calculators can help you crunch the numbers when making buying or borrowing decisions. But the numbers are not the whole story.

By Ted J. Rulseh

s

One thing the online calculators do is give you the hard figures, so

you’re prepared as you make decisions, or when you go and talk to a

financial professional about a loan, insurance policy, or other product.

A little information can be handy to carry in your pocket.

making minimum payments, it will take 114 more payments, or 9.5 years, to pay off the remaining balance. Interest will amount to $10,945.” Then I said I would decline the privilege of skipping the December pay-ment and would pay $200 beyond the mini-mum each month. Now I am paid off in 32 months, or 2.7 years, and the total interest is $2,628. There’s a good objective lesson for a family member (or for yourself if need be).

Buy or lEasE?Then I looked at a calculator sure to in-

terest business owners who invest in capital equipment: “Should I lease or purchase an auto?” (Of course, the same basic math ap-plies to leasing equipment of any kind.)

You simply plug in the term of the lease (or purchase loan), the down payment, any additional lease fees or security deposit, the monthly lease payment, the purchase price, the sales tax percentage, other up-front pur-chase costs, the loan interest rate, and the

market value of the item at the end of the lease.

Click Submit, and there will be your answer. Of course, that last item may be a bit hard to calculate, but if you can get a good fix on it, you can get a useful cost comparison.

Here again, the numbers don’t tell the whole story: monthly cost and even total cost are not the only factors in deciding whether to lease or buy.

Still, having data on your side can’t be a bad thing. One thing the online calculators do is give you the hard figures, so you’re prepared as you make decisions, or when you go and talk to a financial professional about a loan, insurance policy, or other product. A little infor-mation can be handy to carry in your pocket. GOMC


On the Money addresses financial issues of importance to GOMC readers. If you would like to suggest a topic for this column, send an e-mail to [email protected].

ABOUT THE AUTHORTed J. Rulseh is an editor for COLE Publishing.


hould I buy that car or lease it? Can I afford this new house? How much money should I set aside for emer-

gencies? How much interest can I save by making extra principal payments on my mortgage? How long before I become a mil-lionaire?

Those used to be fairly involved and dif-ficult calculations. Now they’re quite easy, thanks to financial calculators widely avail-able on the Internet. With a few basic pieces of information in hand, you can generate the figures to support all kinds of financial deci-sions.

You don’t have to know the formula. You just have to enter the data, and the pro-gram does the math for you. Of course, the numbers alone won’t always resolve the key issue at hand. For example, the numbers may tell you it’s better to invest more money than to pay extra on your mortgage principal – but you may simply like the idea of being mortgage-free sooner. And if so, fine.

Still, it’s nice to go into a financial deci-sion with the hard figures in hand – armed

with data instead of just hunches, or “gut feel,” or some advice you got from a financial planner (who may not be without personal bias).

Easy to findYou can find these calculators easily. For

example, most real estate websites will have

a mortgage calculator to figure your monthly payment on the house you want to buy. Car, boat and recreational vehicle dealer websites have similar calculators.

And that’s just the beginning. A simple Internet search under “financial calculators” will bring up numerous sites that offer doz-ens to hundreds of calculators for almost any purpose you can imagine. For example:

• Should I convert to a Roth IRA?• How will inflation affect my retire-

ment income needs?• How much money can I accumu-

late by saving instead of buying lattes, eating out every Friday, or renting fewer videos?

• Should I pay extra points to get a lower mortgage rate?

• Should I consolidate my personal debt?

• How much life insurance do I need?

Think of almost any financial question you have and chances are there’s a calculator to help you crunch the numbers.

WhEn to rEtirE

Among the most popular cal-culators are those that tell you how much you need

to save to retire, or how soon you can retire at your current rate of saving and pattern of investing. Of course, these illustrate a pitfall of putting too much faith in calculators: By definition, they are based on certain sets of assumptions that may or may not apply to you and how you plan to live your life.

For example, I ran the retirement

calculator on Yahoo! and found that I need to save 48 percent of my annual income from now on if I want to retire at age 65. That might send me into deep despair, unless I considered the assumptions behind the result. The key assumption is that I plan a traditional retirement, where you build up a big pile of money and coast on it from age 65 until you die.

My “retirement” plans differ from that model in important ways. Most significant: I’m a writer by trade, I enjoy the work, and I expect to do it for pay, at some level, for as long as I have my health and faculties. That greatly changes the calculus. It may be the same for many people who own GOM sup-port service businesses: They may prefer to dial back the workload but stay involved to some degree for many years.

taking a tEst spin

It’s worth a few minutes to give some of these calculators a try. By doing so, you get a feel for their capabilities and limitations.

One of the most popular calculators on Yahoo! is labeled, “How much will college cost?” It’s really about the feasibility of repay-ing student loans based on income from a first full-time job. You and your college-age kids might enjoy trying this one. I plugged in the four necessary figures:

Anticipated initial income on gradua-tion: $30,000

• Initial loan amount: $30,000• Interest rate: 8 percent• Payment period: 120 months (10

years)The calculator responded: “Your esti-

mated monthly loan repayments are $364, which equate to 14.6 percent of your antici-pated monthly income. This appears to be within reasonable limits based upon your anticipated income and debt repayments.”

Then I tried: “How long will it take to pay off my credit card?” The necessary fig-ures are:

• Initial credit card balance: $10,000• Annual percentage rate: 18 percent• Minimum payment percentage: 2

percent• Minimum payment amount: $200• Skip December payment when of-

fered? Yes• Additional payment amount: $0The calculator responded: “By only

Ted J. Rulseh

On the Money

Just a CliCk away?Financial calculators can help you crunch the numbers when making buying or borrowing decisions. But the numbers are not the whole story.

By Ted J. Rulseh

s

One thing the online calculators do is give you the hard figures, so

you’re prepared as you make decisions, or when you go and talk to a

financial professional about a loan, insurance policy, or other product.

A little information can be handy to carry in your pocket.

making minimum payments, it will take 114 more payments, or 9.5 years, to pay off the remaining balance. Interest will amount to $10,945.” Then I said I would decline the privilege of skipping the December pay-ment and would pay $200 beyond the mini-mum each month. Now I am paid off in 32 months, or 2.7 years, and the total interest is $2,628. There’s a good objective lesson for a family member (or for yourself if need be).

Buy or lEasE?Then I looked at a calculator sure to in-

terest business owners who invest in capital equipment: “Should I lease or purchase an auto?” (Of course, the same basic math ap-plies to leasing equipment of any kind.)

You simply plug in the term of the lease (or purchase loan), the down payment, any additional lease fees or security deposit, the monthly lease payment, the purchase price, the sales tax percentage, other up-front pur-chase costs, the loan interest rate, and the

market value of the item at the end of the lease.

Click Submit, and there will be your answer. Of course, that last item may be a bit hard to calculate, but if you can get a good fix on it, you can get a useful cost comparison.

Here again, the numbers don’t tell the whole story: monthly cost and even total cost are not the only factors in deciding whether to lease or buy.

Still, having data on your side can’t be a bad thing. One thing the online calculators do is give you the hard figures, so you’re prepared as you make decisions, or when you go and talk to a financial professional about a loan, insurance policy, or other product. A little infor-mation can be handy to carry in your pocket. GOMC


On the Money addresses financial issues of importance to GOMC readers. If you would like to suggest a topic for this column, send an e-mail to [email protected].

ABOUT THE AUTHORTed J. Rulseh is an editor for COLE Publishing.

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The

Expo RECAP

The 31st Annual Pumper & Cleaner Environ-mental Expo International closed a four-year run in Louisville with 3,644 companies, cities and utilities represented and 8,286 total attendees. The Expo moves to Indianapolis for 2012, running Feb. 27 to March 1 at the Indiana Convention Center.

The 2011 Expo offered a full slate of educa-tional seminars spread over three days and included 477 exhibits of new and familiar products and tech-nologies. Here is a sampling of the new offerings on display for support service contractors in the gas, oil and mining industries:

1. MOBILE DECONTAMINATION TRAILER

Mobile decontamination trailers from Ameri-Can Engineering come in a standard range of sizes from 16 to 32 feet, but have been custom-built up to 48 feet for specific applications. Workers enter the dirty room at the back of the trailer and remove clothing and gear in the closed area, which main-tains negative air pressure, changes the air seven times per hour and uses HEPA filtration. Workers then move to the central shower area, where wa-ter is collected and filtered before discharge, then dress in the heated and air conditioned clean room at the front of the trailer, which includes lockers, clothes hooks and seating. Water in the 2.5-gpm (20 psi) shower is heated with LP gas or electricity and maintains a constant 107 degrees F. 574/892-5151; www.ameri-can.com.

2. CUSTOM RESTROOM TRAILERArt Co. showed a custom-built 20-foot

restroom trailer with one stall and two urinals in the men’s side and three stalls in the women’s side. The trailer is built in 10-, 12-, 16-, 20- and 24-foot sizes, or custom lengths, and features unibody undercoated steel frame construction, aluminum sheet exterior, integral skirting, hydraulic levelers and DOT safety and LED exterior lights. The trailer features hands-free faucets, pushbutton-flush toilets, standard slide-out steps and maple cabinetry, pocket doors and crown molding, all stained in an oak color. For durability, the units feature laminate walls, solid-surface countertops with integrated sink, vinyl plank flooring with a hardwood look, trash can and integrated soap dispensers. The trailer also includes heat, air conditioning and a 725-gallon waste tank with room for an optional 200-gallon freshwater tank in the utility room. 269/435-4278; www. arestroomtrailer.com.

3. WATER RECYCLING CLEANERThe CAP-RECY sewer cleaner from Cappel-

lotto recycles jetting water as it cleans the pipe. The system reduces refills for clean water, limiting clean-ing downtime.

The truck can work without shutting off secondary lines and can operate with high water volume in sewers. Multistep filtration removes impurities from recycled water and safeguards the high-pressure water pump. www.cappellotto.com.

4. DEODORANT PACKETCentury Chemical Corp. introduced a water-

soluble toss-in restroom deodorant packet featuring GrapeBurst odor-control technology. The non-form-aldehyde product is safe for users and the environ-ment and improves portion control for technicians in the field, saving time and wasted product. The film dissolves in one minute, dispersing fragrance, dye and chemical to fight odors for seven days. 800/348-3505; www.centurychemical.com.

5. BACTERIA-BASED URINAL BLOCKBioFORCE bacteria-based urinal blocks from

Chempace Corp. are designed to replace chloro-benzene-based products. The blocks are sold in 50-unit pails and come in a variety of fragrances and sizes to work effectively between two and four weeks. Salt has been added to the blocks to help prevent freezing in restrooms in winter months. 800/423-5350; www.chempace.com.

6. OIL FIELD VACUUM TRUCK Curry Supply Co. displayed its CurryVac oil

field vacuum truck. Stock tank sizes include 80, 100, 110, and 120 barrels. Tank shell and baffles are made of 1/4-inch steel (5/16-inch available) with 5/16-inch steel ASME flanged and dished tank head. Other features include 3/16-inch steel Bad-gerlined bolt-on fenders with storage tray, 4-inch loading and unloading ports with brass valves, sight glasses, 25-inch top and rear manway lids, rear hose

New equipment for gas, oil and mining support service contractors abounds at the Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo International By Jim Kneiszel

Tools forYour FuTure

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hooks, heavy-duty oil field rear bumper with tow ring and choice of Masport, Jurop and Fruitland pumps. Options include stainless steel tank and tank sizes, work lights, toolboxes, heavy-duty oil field front bumper, brush guards, strobe light pack-ages, heated ports and additional loading ports. 800/345-2829; www.currysupply.com.

7. CENTRIFUGE DEWATERING SYSTEM

Fergus Power Pump Inc. showed a new centrifuge dewatering system designed to efficiently separate solids from wastewater. Utilizing polymers, the biosolids are fed through a Pierailisi Giant 2 centrifuge with an outside bolt turning at 2,200 rpm, with the water spinning to the outside of the unit and the solids conveyed through the auger at the center. The company rebuilds both centrifuge and belt press dewatering systems that process 50 to 400 gpm of sludge. The unit on display was mounted on a 53-foot semi trailer. 800/243-7584; www.ferguspowerpump.com.

8. SMOOTH-SIDED RESTROOM

The Glacier portable restroom from Five Peaks Technology adds smooth single-wall construction to a standard Aspen model and a new hair cell finish to the polyethylene formulation to promote easier cleaning and make the unit more graffiti-resistant. With heavier sheet stock, the unit gains 14 pounds to weigh 150 pounds. Like the Aspen, the unit features a coat hook, hover handle, corner shelf, gender signage, three-roll paper holder and a 65- gallon tank. 231/830-8099; www.fivepeaks.net.

9. DEWATERING SYSTEM Flo Trend Systems Inc. displayed its Sludge

Mate container filter, used with polymer to dewater grease trap waste, septic tank waste, digested sludge and alum sludge. Polymer is mixed with the waste before processing in the dewatering trailer. Filters retain the solids and allow water to pass through and out the drainage ports. Sludge is ready for disposal after 12 to 24 hours. The trailer-mounted unit can be equipped with a tarp, roof with hatchways or an open top. All units are offered with or without the Poly-Mate Polymer Mixing and Injection System. Dewatering units range from 5 to 40 cubic yards and can process from 5,000 to 40,000 gpd. A variety of trailer sizes, hydraulics, brakes and hitch configurations are available. 800/762-9893; www.flotrend.com.

10. ENHANCED VACUUM TRUCKThe Guzzler NX vacuum truck from Guzzler

Mfg. has been redesigned to enhance productivity and achieve a more attractive price. The cyclone and baghouses are configured together to maximize efficiency and reduce overall weight. An increased filter area and offline cleaning extend bag life while forcing carryover back to the debris tank. Seventy-two 70-inch bags provide a low 4:1 air-to-cloth ratio, keeping the system clean and filtered for reliable performance and high productivity. The truck carries a Robuschi blower delivering 5,435 cfm with vacuum capability to 28 inches Hg. The blower, combined with simple air routing, makes more air available at the hose inlet and so moves more material. The large blower lets users load more material at a lower engine rpm, conserving

fuel and reducing noise. The truck has a Tested Operating Sound Level of 88.9 dB per SAE J1372 test. 815/672-3171; www.guzzler.com.

11. VACUUM TRUCK Heritage Truck Equipment introduced its

latest steel-tank vacuum truck. Also available in aluminum or stainless steel, tank sizes range from 2,000 to 5,000 gallons. Other features include steel, aluminum or stainless steel hose trays, interior full baffles (minimum two per tank), full-length double-leg sills with 2-inch grooved rubber cushion, custom rear bumpers, custom work and strobe light packages, custom toolboxes (steel, aluminum or stainless steel), interior and exterior tank coatings, electronic load level gauges with LED display (float or sonar), split tanks with freshwater wash-down pumps, custom paint, decals and lettering. 330/699-4491; www.heritagetruck.com.

12. DOT VACUUM TRUCK Imperial Industries Inc. introduced its

Department of Transportation, ASME-certified vacuum tank truck. Mounted on a 2011 Freightliner M2 106 chassis, the 3,200-gallon 407/412 DOT steel tank with 21-inch manway features a three-stage hoist with full-opening rear door and heavy-duty rear bumper. Other features include rollover protection, aluminum hose trays, arrow level indicator, four-step ladder on tank and two-step slide-out ladder on the frame. The tank has a catwalk with rail, 4-inch intake and 6-inch discharge, right-angle-driven vacuum pump (Masport liquid-cooled HXL400WV) and LED light package. The chassis has an 18,000-pound front axle and 40,000-pound

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rear axle. The truck is powered by a Cummins ISC 8.3-liter engine mounted to a Fuller 10-speed transmission. The air-ride cab has high-back driver and passenger seats, air conditioning, cruise control, power windows and locks, tilt steering window and sound system. 800/558-2945; www.imperialind.com.

13. LIQUID DEODORANT PACKETThe water-soluble Liquid Pack non-formalde-

hyde packets from J & J Chemical Co. dissolve instantly and provide seven days of protection from odors in portable restroom holding tanks. The packets currently come in a mulberry fragrance, but other scents will be added. The product is sold 75 packets per bag, 300 packets per case, and is de-signed to improve portion control and cost effec-tiveness. 800/345-3303; www.jjchem.com.

14. LOWERING ADA TRAILER

The 2011 lowering ADA trailer from JAG Mobile Solutions features the popular Cottage interior and was presented with an 18-foot-long cabin and 22-foot total length. The entire unit low-ers hydraulically and uses a drop tank design with a 425-gallon waste tank serving the ADA unit at the rear of the trailer. The unit has a fiberglass laminat-ed exterior, stainless steel piano door hinges and a continuous axle for durability. Another innovation is new gender placards allowing restrooms to be earmarked for men or women to suit the demands of specific special events. The trailer is equipped for winter use and a central storage room houses a spare tire, 200-gallon freshwater tank and has room to stow the ADA ramp. 800/815-2557; www. jagmobilesolutions.com.

15. MACERATING PUMP The Vacuumarator macerating pump from

Norwegian manufacturer Jets Standard AS will liquefy and convey toilet waste 10 feet up and long horizontal distances to make it suitable for use in restroom trailer construction. One pump can move the waste from five toilets, using a quarter-gallon of water and 30 gallons of fresh air to move waste through the macerating knife and into a holding tank. The unit is used in many mobile bathroom applications, including ships and trailers and in other military settings in Europe and the U.S. Contractors Outlet Group distributes the pump in the U.S. 800/789-1212; www.contractorsoutletgroup .com.

16. HIGH-PRESSURE TANK CLEANERS

Aquamat automatic tank cleaners from Hammelmann remove deposits including hardened materials from inner tank walls at pressures up to 21,750 psi. A wide range of nozzle arms in various lengths and shapes enable the tools to suit numerous applications and tank sizes. Units can be fitted with one or two arms. The nozzle arms rotate from the reaction force of the waterjets at each end. This rotational motion is transferred through a built-in drive and reduction gear that rotates the cleaner around its vertical axis. By rotating on two axes, the waterjets can reach all parts of the tank interior. 937/859-8777; www.hammelmann.com.

17. VERSATILE VACUUM TRUCKThe Baron industrial vacuum truck from Keith

Huber combines the safety and deep vacuum pow-er of a liquid ring pump with high airflow and quiet

operation. It fills a need for highway transportation of larger payloads.

The truck offers high power with innovative vacuum and filtration technology in an operator-friendly package that is conservatively priced. The liquid ring pump makes it safe to use in pumping hydrocarbons. The unit’s light weight allows for larger payloads. A standard remote control allows operation away from the control cabinet. 228/832-0992; www.keithhuber.com.

18. FAN-COOLED VACUUM PUMP Masport unveiled the VK650 fan-cooled

vacuum pressure pump. The unit features automatic oil at all working levels and end-thrust protection to prevent rotor-to-endcover contact. The integrated oil tank holds up to one gallon of oil. Other features include an integral valve that allows the pump to operate in vacuum and pressure mode, posi-lock handle for secure positioning, integrated inlet filter and steel filter for longer life. The pump delivers up to 23 inches continuous vacuum or 27 inches of intermittent vacuum. It has heavy-duty bearings, flushing port and a vane inspection port. 800/228-4510; www.masportpump.com.

19. CONVERTIBLE BLASTING SYSTEM

The 225 Series high-pressure waterjetting systems from NLB Corp. are built around the company’s Model 225 convertible pump with quick-change, inline fluid end design and fewer parts for increased efficiency and simpler maintenance. A simple conversion kit allows it to operate at pressures between 8,000 to 40,000 psi. Internal gearing eliminates pulleys and belts, substantially

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reducing the pump’s overall footprint. The forged steel crankshaft is mounted in heavy-duty bearings. Drive pinion output shafts on both sides allow for opposite-hand drive. The trailered unit comes with four-wheel electronic brakes, full DOT lighting package, and heavy-duty axles. All operating controls, including the pressure compensating bypass valve and pressure gauge with snubber, are mounted on a separate accessory manifold for additional protection. Power ratings range from 200 to 300 hp. 248/624-5555; www.nlbcorp.com.

20. OIL-INJECTION PUMPS Nuhn Industries Ltd. introduced its Magnum

400 and Magnum 600 oil-injection, rotary vane vac-uum pumps. The 400-cfm pump has a maximum vacuum of 28 inches Hg, 3-inch outlet, automatic oil-injection pump and operating speed of 750 to 1,150 rpm. The pump has five carbon fiber vanes, measures 23 inches tall, 29.5 inches long and 17 inches wide. The 600-cfm pump has a 4-inch out-let and an operating speed of 850 to 1,150 rpm. The pump measures 27.5 inches tall, 34.375 inches long and 29.75 inches wide. 877/837-7323; www.nuhn.ca.

21. HYDROSTATIC DRIVEThe PFT-PCH/3000 transmission from OMSI

Transmissions is designed for trucks from 26 to 42 tons and offers torque-mechanical drive of 30,000 Nm, torque-hydrostatic drive of 9,200 Nm, and power-pump output of 380 kW. The transmission has multiple outputs available, including a creep drive for high-rail vehicle applications. The reduc-tion box has a mounting flange for a hydraulic mo-tor that connects to a pump operated by the diesel

engine or from the transmission, permitting the conversion, in a working load at low speed, of the vehicle’s traction from mechanical to hydrostatic. A wide range of ratios up to 14.6 allows very low speed and the opportunity to use a small-displace-ment hydro motor or electric motor, keeping a high-output torque during hydrostatic drive. 330/405-7300; www.omsitransmissions.com.

22. WORKSITE RESTROOMThe Piccadilly Poly from Piccadilly Concepts is

designed to resemble an English phone booth, with windowpane graphics on the front panel and 2- by 4-foot flat areas on all sides for additional graphics or advertising, and 6- by 24-inch logo panels on each side. The unit comes in a red exterior or custom colors on orders of 100 units. The majority of the unit is blow-molded, with a thermoformed roof and rotomolded skid. The unit features an oversized mirror, hover handle, door latch, four hinges embedded in the door jamb, a corner shelf, a 65-gallon holding tank and extruded corner pieces that give the interior a finished appearance. The restroom is 44 by 48 inches and weighs 195 pounds. A channel was molded into the upper panel to allow contractors to run standard rope lighting around the inside of the roof. 630/779-2696; www.piccadillyconcepts.com.

23. SINK WITH LARGER BASINThe HandStand hand-wash station from Poly-

John Enterprises Corp. now comes with a larger sink basin and a higher sink tap for specific special event applications such as near food vending op-erations where utensils are washed. The HandStand model retains its 17-gallon freshwater, 20-gallon

graywater capacities, foot pump, soap and towel dispensers and integrated wheels and handle for easier transport. It also features an integrated drain hose to easily release graywater into floor drains. 800/292-1305; www.polyjohn.com.

24. HAND-WIPE STATIONThe Hand Wet-Wipe Station from PolyPorta-

bles Inc. provides dual wet-wipe rolls that are anti-bacterial, non-alcoholic and provide washing as well as hand-sanitizing to clean hands. The base of the unit houses a waste container and storage compart-ment for up to six rolls of hand wipes. The unit is designed for school gymnasiums, special events and emergency relief. The side panels allow for slide-in advertising cards. The unit weighs 42 pounds when filled with wipe rolls. 800/241-7951; www. polyportables.com.

25. DEWATERING TROUGH AND DOOR

Ravens Sales & Service, a division of Kruz Inc., displayed its dewatering trough and door for on-site dewatering. Adaptable to existing equipment, a kit or custom installation is available. The system features three 4-inch discharge fittings, replaceable filter media in stainless steel assembly and sliding stainless metering door. 574/772-6673; www. kruzinc.com.

26. RUGGED RESTROOM TRAILERThe 512 model restroom trailer from Rich Re-

strooms is designed for heavy-duty use at construc-tion and industrial sites. The 12-foot trailer has a rugged fiberglass exterior and full winter package. The interior of men’s and women’s rooms – each

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with one stool (and a waterless urinal on the men’s side) – features diamond plate wainscoting, stain-less steel sinks, wall heaters, insulated waste tank, full thermal wrap around the exterior and roof, in-terior access to the mechanical room and onboard freshwater tank. The trailer features a new hitch that swings up and secures to the front of the trailer to lower freight costs, provide easier access to the 3-inch dump valve and eliminate a tripping hazard. 260/593-2279; www.richrestrooms.com.

27. NEW DEODORANT FORMULATION

Satellite Industries Inc. has rebranded its Safe T Fresh line of odor-control products and introduced three new formulations of Quick Tabs restroom tank deodorizers. The new product uses triple molecular technology, including a perfume technology, a multibiocides system and an odor-neutralizing complex for optimal control. The tabs come in three formulas – regular, event and extreme – so customers can choose the strength they need for any situation. The tabs are designed to provide good effervescence, dissolve rapidly in water or brine, give an instant blast of fresh floral fragrance, and last for a typical seven-day service cycle. The product comes in 48 tabs per bag, 240 tabs per case. 800/328-3332; www.satelliteindustries.com.

28. DEWATERING TRAILER SludgeNET Dewatering Systems Inc. dis-

played its 40-foot, aluminum tandem dewatering trailer, capable of processing up to 60,000 gallons of sludge, depending on percentage of solids. One trailer typically can process between 35,000 and

40,000 gallons of sludge, or the equivalent of five to six liquid tankers. The unit features a flowmeter and custom-designed sludge pump and polymer system that can fill a trailer at the rate of 100 to 400 gpm. Hoses hook directly to the digester and pump sludge through the meter into the top of the trailer. Water drains out the trailer through hoses and into the lift station. Sludge can be hauled directly to the landfill. Multiple trailers can be connected to dewa-ter larger plants. 281/426-5494; www.sludgenet.com.

29. CONTAINMENT TRAYTo adapt to new laws controlling wastewater

runoff from portable restrooms, TSF Co. Inc. introduces a restroom containment tray. The tray is constructed of 3/16-inch-thick rotomolded polyethylene for durability and is designed for a universal fit with all standard restrooms. The tray comes in black or safety orange colors. 812/985-2630; www.tuff-jon.com.

30. VARIABLE-SPEED WINCHGrundowinch hydrostatic constant-tension

winches from TT Technologies are designed for variable conditions in below-grade work. All mod-els have protective cable storage and are available with an air-cooled diesel or gasoline engine and an adjustable boom system. These portable units are suited for applications including pipe bursting, sliplining, pipe pulling, underground cable pull-ing and swage lining. Constant tension means any cable slack is immediately sensed and quickly taken up automatically. Permanent documentation of the pull is available in an optional chart recorder that prints out a copy of the job’s tensions. Firm anchor-ing is achieved with prop legs in front and extended angled legs with cutting feet in the rear. Stow-away wheel chocks are included. 630/851-8200; www.tttechnologies.com.

31. THREE-STAGE FAN SYSTEMThe AllJetVac combination sewer cleaner

from Vacall uses a three-stage fan system for high vacuum performance and reliability at reduced

cost. The vacuum and jetting system lets users cost-effectively open clogged sewer lines and remove debris. The AllSmartFlow CAN bus control system lets operators make precise adjustments in boom movement. Units are available with 6- to 12-cubic-yard debris tanks and 1,000- to 1,500-gallon water tanks. The 8-foot 6-inch extending boom has 320-degree rotation. Blower and water pump choices include an 85-gpm/2,000-psi water pump with 30-minute run-dry guarantee. 330/339-2211; www.vacallindustries.com.

32. PUMP EXHAUST DEODORIZING SYSTEM

To freshen the environment around waste vacuum trucks, Walex Products Co. introduces the Vacu-Fresh pump exhaust deodorizer system. The aluminum box is threaded onto the vacuum tank pump system and the unit is charged with a gallon of Vacu-Fresh deodorizer through the topside fill port. The chamber contains bioballs that aid in the exhaust filtration before the exhaust is emit-ted. A charge fights malodor for up to a month, at which point the deodorizer is drained and replaced. 800/338-3155; www.walex.com.

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Wallenstein pump from Elmira Machine Indus-tries Inc., runs at 1,000 rpm and pulls 28 inches, 800 cfm at 15 inches Hg. The pump runs quietly and stays cool with a dual cooling feature incorpo-rating a coolant-circulating system that draws heat away from the pump and an air injection feature that sends a blast of cold air inside the pump hous-ing. In winter, the chiller can be routed to the heater core in the cab to prevent cold starting. The pump was displayed on a Vacutrux Envirotrux with a 4,300-gallon tank, full-open rear door and a boom system. 800/801-6663; www.wallensteinpumps.com. GOMC

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The SmartSense Pulse intelligent pump monitor, part of a family of pump monitoring systems from Colfax Corp., provides an ongoing indication of pump health. The pulse device mounts near the bearing on the pump housing. Measuring 2.4 inches long, 1.6 inches wide and 1.3 inches deep, the entry-level device features at-a-glance LEDs that indicate pump performance and provide maintenance alerts when needed.

“It’s a visual monitoring device that looks at two parameters: vibration and temperature, which for our three-screw pumps are the key indicators of pump health,” says Todd Kierstead, markets and products specialist for Colfax. The monitor also can be used on any pump technology where temperature and vibration indicate pump health.

“If you have a pump that’s not in a critical application, this might be a very simple solution. It’s simple to install, simple to use and a low-cost investment. For critical installations we would recommend our SmartSense System, which includes temperature, vibration, cavitation, seal leak detection and rotor wear.”

The Pulse monitor operates by comparing the readings it receives to predetermined set points.

“If the bearing temperature under normal conditions would operate at, let’s say 100 degrees Fahrenheit, it would give you a good health condition,”

Kierstead says. “But if the bearing temperature started to rise and reached a point where it was excessive it would give a visual feedback that the bearing temperature needs to be analyzed. The same with vibration.”

The Pulse indicator has a vibration monitoring range of plus or minus 2g, 4g, or 8g and temperature range of -40 to 221 degrees F. LEDs blink yellow for high-level vibration and temperature and red for high-high level. The base level can be resent with an electronic key. The battery-powered device has a battery life indicator, can operate about one year before requiring a new battery, and automatically turns to sleep mode when no vibration is detected. 804/560-4070; www.colfaxcorp.com.

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1. NOV INtrOduces eZstrIp pump techNOlOgy EZstrip pump technology from NOV Monoflo enables pumps to be disas-

sembled, de-ragged and maintained in place, reducing downtime and maintenance costs. The system can be installed on new pumps or retrofitted into existing select Compact C, W-Range and B-Range installations. No electrical disconnection is re-quired. Suction and discharge pipe are untouched. The unit offers dry-run protec-tion. The model range has a capacity of up to 726 gpm and 174 psi. It is available in either cast iron or stainless steel. 281/200-1200; www.monoflo.com.

2. lIttle BeaVer Offers hydraulIc earth drIll

The hydraulic earth drill from Little Beaver features an 11-hp Honda, over-head-valve gasoline engine with 5-gallon reservoir mounted to a three-wheel chassis. When using a 12-inch or smaller diameter auger, the 150-rpm drill can reach depths of up to 12 feet. The unit can handle larger augers and drill holes up to 16 inches in diameter. A one-man, two-man or high-torque anchor handle is available, along with a tripod kit. 800/227-7515; www.littlebeaver.com.

3. ultratech Offers cONtaINmeNt Berms

Ultra-Containment Berms from UltraTech International Inc. are designed to meet spill prevention, control and countermeasure plan requirements, capturing small and large spills from tanker trucks and other heavy equipment. “Drive-in, drive-out” sidewalls lay down when driven through, then automatically spring back to their upright position. The berms, available in standard and custom sizes, are made of chemical-resistant copolymer-2000 material and can be rolled up for storage. 800/353-1611; www.spillcontainment.com.

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4. BerNard cONtrOls INtrOduces master statIONThe Master Station fieldbus from Bernard Controls is designed to ease the com-

mand and control of many motor-operated valves. The system combines PLC technol-ogy, full redundancy and bus continuity. Digital communication enables the user to retrieve information from field units. 281/578-6666; www.bernardcontrols.com.

5. pOwerBlaNket Offers taNk wraps

Tank wraps from Powerblanket are made to heat and maintain temperature in large holding tanks. Featuring GreenHeat Technology, the wraps provide a barrier of insu-lated warmth to keep fluids from freezing and viscous materials flowing. The wraps, secured with a nylon strap and magnet system, can cover from 20-pound propane tanks to 30,000-gallon water tanks. Wraps are available in configurations requiring 120- or 240-volt service and are certified to meet UL 499 and CSA C22.2 No. 130 standards. 877/642-5245; www.powerblanket.com.

6. parker haNNIfIN INtrOduces chelsea wet splINe ptO

The Chelsea line of Wet Spline PTOs from Parker Hannifin features non-rotatable and rotatable wet spline pump flanges that provide a continuous fresh oil bath at the mating point of the PTO and pump shaft. The cushion of oil eliminates spline fretting and can increase shaft life by a factor of 10. Oil in the wet spline can be flushed and refilled during regular transmission flushing, eliminating the need for frequent grease maintenance. 662/895-1011; www.parker.com.

7. Vac-cON INtrOduces Natural-gas pOwered truck

The Compressed Natural Gas truck by Vac-Con features a CNG-powered auxiliary-mounted engine that powers the truck’s water system. The combination high-pressure water and vacuum cleaning system is mounted on a Freightliner Business Class M2 112V CNG chassis. The truck has an Allison 3000RDLS transmission and 2,500-square-inch windshield for enhanced visibility. 888/491-5762; www.vac-con.com.

8. garlOck Offers sgI shaft grOuNdINg BearINg IsOlatOr

The SGi shaft grounding bearing isolator from Garlock Sealing Technologies is designed to protect bearings from electrical damage, lubricant loss and contamina-tion, combining the GUARDIAN non-sparking bronze labyrinth seal and AEGIS shaft grounding ring in a single unit. 800/448-6688; www.garlock.com.

9. flO treNd INtrOduces frONt lOader de-grIttINg system

The Front Loader De-Gritting System from Flo Trend features a gum-rubber-lined, steel body hydrocyclone with a front loader container filter. Underflow from the hydro-cyclone and concentrated wet grit is discharged into the container filter, allowing water to pass through and exit the discharge ports on the bottom of the unit. 713/699-0152; www.flotrend.com.

10. sIOux INtrOduces drIll pIpe eNVIrO-cleaNer

The Drill Pipe Enviro-Cleaner from Sioux Corp. uses steam to clean drill pipes and down-hole tools. Mud and oil removed from the drill pipe falls back into the well, preventing soil from contamination. The unit consists of a steam cleaner and collar with multiple nozzles that mount on the wellhead. The system provides hot, pressur-ized water to the collar, which is mounted inline between the blowout preventer and rotary table. The unit produces 320-degree F pressured water at 250 psi. 888/763-8833; www.sioux.com.

prOduced water sOlutIONs INtrOduces chemIcal-free water treatmeNt

The ECOFRAC chemical-free water treatment system from Produced Water Solutions Inc. is made to treat high volumes of water used in the hydraulic fracturing process. The mobile, low-energy, chemical-free process treats water prior to injecting, reducing the amount of chemicals added to the subsurface. 303/215-9595; www.produced-water.net.

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11. telOgIs INtrOduces scalaBle fleet maNagemeNt platfOrmFleet 8 scalable GPS fleet management software from Telogis features dynamic traf-

fic and weather data, enabling fleet managers to make informed real-time routing and allocation decisions. Advanced tracking tools help companies with vehicles that travel through multiple states. Multiple vehicle histories allow users to view the current and historical status of multiple vehicles in a single window. A fuel card module helps man-age and record fuel card transactions. 866/835-6447; www.telogis.com.

12. grIffIN Offers wellpOINt dewaterINg systemWellpoint dewatering systems from Griffin Pump and Equipment are available with

1.5- or 2-inch PVC or stainless steel screen. Swingjoints are constructed of flexible rein-forced hose with a clear elbow for viewing flow through the system. The system is avail-able with 4- through 10-inch pumps. 866/770-8100; www.griffinpump.com.

13. cOugar VIBratION Offers truck VIBratOrsThe DC-3200 truck vibrator from Cougar Vibration is designed for dump trucks

with a 10- to 15-yard capacity, live-bottom tandem dump trucks that carry 15-30 yards, as well as vacuum trucks. The unit delivers 4,000 vibration cycles per minute with 3,200 pounds of force. 800/262-2106; www.cougarindustries.com.

14. certaINteed Offers pVc pIpe JOININg systemThe Certa-Lok Yelomine PVC temporary pipe joining system from CertainTeed is

made for trenchless construction, potable water, sewer and mining applications. The system uses a high-strength spline with elastometric O-ring to connect lengths of pipe. Leak-resistant and quick to assemble, the system is impact resistant. 610/341-7328; www.certainteed.com.

15. tOte Offers pOrtaBle lIquId taNksThe 350-gallon, stainless steel portable tank from Tote Systems holds the

equivalent of seven, 55-gallon drums. Tanks have a 22-inch drum cover with 3-inch fusible vent, 2-inch bung plug, 2-inch reduced port ball valve with Teflon seats and reverse locking handle. Measuring 42 inches long, 48 inches wide and 47 3/4 inches tall, other features of the UN/DOT-certified tanks include 6-inch clearance from tank bottom to floor, 1/4-inch radius corner combination lifting lug and stacking positioners. A 550-gallon tank is available. 888/535-8683; www.totetank.com. GOMC

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fic and weather data, enabling fleet managers to make informed real-time routing and allocation decisions. Advanced tracking tools help companies with vehicles that travel through multiple states. Multiple vehicle histories allow users to view the current and historical status of multiple vehicles in a single window. A fuel card module helps man-age and record fuel card transactions. 866/835-6447; www.telogis.com.

12. grIffIN Offers wellpOINt dewaterINg systemWellpoint dewatering systems from Griffin Pump and Equipment are available with

1.5- or 2-inch PVC or stainless steel screen. Swingjoints are constructed of flexible rein-forced hose with a clear elbow for viewing flow through the system. The system is avail-able with 4- through 10-inch pumps. 866/770-8100; www.griffinpump.com.

13. cOugar VIBratION Offers truck VIBratOrsThe DC-3200 truck vibrator from Cougar Vibration is designed for dump trucks

with a 10- to 15-yard capacity, live-bottom tandem dump trucks that carry 15-30 yards, as well as vacuum trucks. The unit delivers 4,000 vibration cycles per minute with 3,200 pounds of force. 800/262-2106; www.cougarindustries.com.

14. certaINteed Offers pVc pIpe JOININg systemThe Certa-Lok Yelomine PVC temporary pipe joining system from CertainTeed is

made for trenchless construction, potable water, sewer and mining applications. The system uses a high-strength spline with elastometric O-ring to connect lengths of pipe. Leak-resistant and quick to assemble, the system is impact resistant. 610/341-7328; www.certainteed.com.

15. tOte Offers pOrtaBle lIquId taNksThe 350-gallon, stainless steel portable tank from Tote Systems holds the

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Wells lamont launches WebsiteGlove-maker Wells Lamont launched a new product website, www.

wellslamont.com. The site offers enhanced browsing capabilities, including product features and job function. Other features include product news, cus-tomer testimonials, store and dealer locator and a FAQs section.

Vac-con celebrates 25th anniVersaryVac-Con, manufacturer of combination sewer cleaning vacuum trucks, cel-

ebrates its 25th anniversary in 2011. Beginning with five employees in 1986, the Green Cove Springs, Fla., company today employs hundreds of workers and a worldwide network of dealers.

Posey hydro changes name to sattler PumP solutions

Sattler Companies Inc. has changed the name of Posey Hydro Solutions to Sattler Pump Solutions. Sattler acquired Posey Hydro four years ago and has continued providing aftermarket pump parts to the fluid transfer and hydro-blasting industries. Sattler Pump Solutions also named David E. Chandler direc-tor to manage business growth strategies. He brings 43 years experience to the high-pressure pump industry, serving the municipal and oil-gas markets.

PressurePro, itc Partner on tire Warning system

Advantage PressurePro and International Telematics Corp. have partnered to provide tire pressure monitoring system users with tire pressure alerts both in-cab through ITC’s ibright interface and remote to an office or smart phone.

heil trailer celebrates 110th anniVersaryHeil Trailer International of Cleveland, Tenn., celebrates its 110th anni-

versary in 2011. The manufacturer of liquid, dry bulk, oil field, platform and specialized trailers was founded in 1901 by Julius Heil as the Heil Railjoint Co. in Milwaukee, Wis.

sioux Promotes hansen to Production manager

Eric Hansen was promoted to production manager for the Sioux Corp. Hansen joined the company in 2007 as a design engineer. gomc

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The most intelligent operating system in the industry.

EXPERTISE

TECHNOLOGY

RESPONSIBILITY

969 Hall Park Drive • Green Cove Springs, FL 32043 • Tel: 904-284-4200 • Fax: 904-284-3305 • [email protected]

Vac-Con is a subsidiary of Holden Industries, Inc., a 100% employee-owned company.

What makes the Omnibus Control System the most intelligent operating system

in the industry? Because one simple control operates ALL the vacuum and water

system functions of the Vac-Con Combination Sewer Cleaner. This coordination of

systems allows you to use only as much power as is needed, saving time and fuel

expended on the job.

The Omnibus Control System is precise, economical, and expandable. Not to

mention it’s backed by a worldwide network of trained distributors.

Omnibus is what happens when you blend the power of experience with the

power of technology. For more information visit

Knowledge is power

1986 2011

Booth1202

www.vac-con.com/omnibus.html


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