If You Can’t Dig It, Suck It
Big Mike's Excavation and Vac Truck Services Inc.
What Is Vacuum Excavation?
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What Is Hydro Excavation?
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How does Vacuum Excavation work?
Who should use vacuum excavation?
There are some key differences between using air and water in vacuum excavation.
Both systems employ vacuum pumps that suck up the dry or wet excavated material at a rate of 1,000 cfm or more. The material is deposited in tanks that can hold the equivalent of 300-1,000 gallons of dirt or slurry. Each tank features a wide-opening end door for dumping the accumulation.
Which system completes an excavation faster and most cost-effectively can depend on how far away a hydrovac truck must travel to dump a full tank, and how much time and expense is involved in trucking in replacement soil.
“The main thing is an air-vac system doesn’t have to get rid of spoil and doesn’t have to import any soil,” says John West, vice president of Ultra Engineering of Winchester, California.
“We can do an entire hole in half an hour from opening to backfill. If you are using water, you won’t get it done that quick. And at the end of the day, we don’t have any spoil to dispose of, which saves time and money.”
What Sets Our Vacuum Excavation Services Apart?
- Solid/semi-solid/liquid vacuum excavation capabilities
- Hydraulic-driven booms for efficient and precise soft digging
- Highly trained vacuum excavation truck operators with remote control capabilities
Benefits of Vacuum Excavation Services
- Safely uncover buried utilities
- Easily refill the excavation site
- Minimal cleanup required
- Less disruptive and invasive
- Get more done for less money
Why Vacuum Excavation is the Best Choice for Safe Digging
- No fear of rupturing or breaking a line because no mechanical parts come in contact with the utility being exposed.
- All you need to do is vacuum a small hole, often 12 inches round or less, causing minimal soil disruption. It’s also easy to patch the hole by returning the dirt when air excavating. This is sometimes referred to as potholing and is used to confirm location, depth, and type of buried lines before beginning construction.
- State-of-the-art. Vacuum-based excavation is more sophisticated than other forms of excavation—allowing for faster excavating speeds and more precise digging. In fact, vacuum excavation is the only form of excavation that can determine the exact depth of a utility with one hundred percent accuracy.
- Cost-Effective. Vacuum excavators are faster than other methods of digging. Plus, the extreme precision of vacuum excavation results in substantially less repair work. Add those together and more sites can be visited during every shift. The resulting cost savings in time, labor and materials can be substantial.
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What We Do
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If You Can’t Dig it, Suck It
Why Choose Us
- Meet or beat pricing guarantee
- We can handle any size dig
- No Job is too big
- No Job is too small
- We get the job done right
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