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How Hydro Excavation Saves Your Bank Account

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When you have an excavation project that needs to be done, the last thing you want to worry about is the price tag. Often the job will go on longer than planned and the expenses seem to never stop rising. But what if there was a better way? What if there was a contractor that delivers the same experts results without breaking your bank? 4 Warriors is here to show you the three ways it makes this possible.

How Hydro Excavation Saves Your Bank Account

#1: Faster

Thanks to the hydro excavation technique, digging has never been so precise. By using highly accurate spurts of pressurized water, they’re able to not only discover exactly where the digging needs to occur (and avoiding sensitive underground utility lines) but get a head start on the digging as well. The water breaks up the solid surface materials in the blink of an eye, which are then vacuumed up and out of the way so that the crew can continue unimpeded. All that debris is stored up and can be used as backfill once the job is done.

#2: More Efficient

All excavation projects before modern times relied on manual digging and the risk of injury was always steep. Even once we developed backhoes, bulldozers, and other machines, they could still be risky. They would have to create unstable cliffsides and giant mounds of dirt, which could lead to collapse. But with the power of hydro excavation, those are worries of the past! The crew can now focus on getting the job done without fear.

#3: Smaller Crew

The best part about all of this is that you don’t have to hire the entire city and their brother. Only a small crew is needed to operate it and each member of the 4 Warriors team comes highly trained and experienced. Lower crew size means fewer people to pay, so your savings only increase. They’ve worked on everything from refineries to nuclear power plants, so you know you’re always in good hands.

4 Warriors Hydro Excavating’s highly experienced team can assist you will all your excavation needs. Feel free to contact them at any time. Thank you and God bless!

3 Things Our Hydrovac Services Bring to Every Construction Site

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When you’re in a rush to finish a construction project, it can seem like there’s not enough time to get everything done. There are not enough resources, not enough people, or not enough space to both reach the projected milestones and accommodate all the change orders in your inbox. While hydro vac excavation services can’t solve everything, they can bring these three things to the table:

3 Things Our Hydrovac Services Bring to Every Construction Site

1. More people

If your employees and contractors are already busy, that can make new adjustments start to run behind schedule Outsourcing specialized work to third-party services can help make everything run more smoothly and let your in-house specialists spend time on their specific workload. At 4 Warriors Hydro Excavating, our trucks come with two trained operators who can handle your excavation needs.

2. More precision

Hydro excavation processes are more precise than digging with mechanical tools. The pressurized water systems target just the specific areas that need to be uncovered, and the soil slurry is pumped away to let you make installations or modifications.

When the excavation portion of the project is over, the slurry can be returned to the trench quickly.

3. More ways to finish the construction on schedule

More people onsite might make you worry that it will be too crowded to comply with safety standards. But hydro excavation trucks can do their jobs without being right up against the trench. They also contain the removed soil slurry so your work site isn’t partially buried under the displaced dirt. That gives you and your team more room to keep working.

At 4 Warriors Hydro Excavating, we give you more. Our trained professionals have years of experience daylighting, trenching, and more in Central Texas. Contact us today to let us know the details of your construction project so we can help you get it done.

3 Reasons Why Precise Trenches Are Safer Trenches

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No matter what your current project is, safety is one of the top priorities on the site. Trenches that your contractors and employees need to climb into are always a potential hazard. Using multiple layers of safety precautions such as shoring, shielding, and sloping can help keep people safe. So can trenching with precision. Here’s how:

3 Reasons Why Precise Trenches Are Safer Trenches

1. Keep work site frustration to a minimum.

When your team has to excavate with traditional mechanical tools, tension can start to build as they try to navigate without damaging any utilities or below-ground systems. If they’re searching for specific points after a few hours without success, that can also make frustration build. That’s when mistakes happen, no matter how professional your team is. With hydro excavation, you can uncover what you need or systematically search with fewer frustrations.

2. Uncover the areas you need to access without destabilizing the surrounding soil.

Mechanical digging loosens the surrounding soil, and that can be dangerous. All excavation processes do, including hydro excavation, but this alternative minimizes disruption When the nearby soil stays tightly packed and isn’t shaken up by heavy equipment, cave-ins are much less likely. Precise trenching also lets you navigate in tight spaces more safely.

3. Minimize the risk of cutting through wiring or sharp metals.

One of hydro excavation’s main benefits is that it minimizes potential breakage to wiring, pipes, and utilities in the ground. Preventing those accidents as much as possible doesn’t just keep your project running on time. It protects your employees from cutting themselves on sharp metal edges or getting shocked by live, damaged wires.

If you want professional, reliable hydro excavation services at your next worksite, contact us at 4 Warriors Hydro Excavating. One of our teams of trained technicians will be there to help you create trenches and keep people safer throughout the project.

Why Potholing is Your New Best Friend

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When you have a major digging job that needs to be done, it may feel like one excavation company is as good as any other. But as we will soon learn, that isn’t the case, especially when underground structures and utility lines are involved. 4 Warriors Hydro Excavation should be your first call and the reason why can be summed up in one word: potholing.

Why Potholing is Your New Best Friend

Potholing: A Primer

No, it has nothing to do with the potholes that make your commute to work a pain. That’s a job for your city council. Potholing here refers to an excavation method that swaps tedious manual labor for quick and precise incisions to locate any electrical or utility lines that are part of a job. In the past, we had to rely on backhoes and back-breaking work by hand, which often resulted in injuries to both workers and to anything they struck by accident. Recognizing the immense need for a better option, 4 Warriors opted to revolutionize potholing with the power of hydro excavation.

How It Works

As these lines and cables were placed one after the other over decades, workers were not always diligent about mapping out exactly where everything is. This made each dig risky and uncertain. Now, we can make our own map.

  1. First, the surface level is removed
  2. Next, precise water sprays are injected into the earth and gravel to break them up
  3. Then, everything is sucked up via vacuum tube, leaving the work area completely clear, ready for later use as backfill
  4. The exposed pipes, lines, and cables are then accurately mapped on GPS
  5. Finally, the work is completed and the backfill ready to be replaced

With the power of water, potholing has never been easier. It has never been cheaper or quicker, either, since this wondrous method also happens to be far more cost-effective and efficient than the other guys. That’s why there’s really only one choice when it comes to your digging needs.

At 4 Warriors, our highly trained team can assist you will all your excavation needs. Feel free to contact us at any time. Thank you and God bless!

Hydro Excavation Is The Best Choice!

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It is easy for a business to find the cheapest method, even if it costs its workers their safety. But this is not the Christian way. Excavation is an especially dangerous industry and so it is upon each company to protect its employees as if they were their own brothers. That is the Christian way. That is the 4 Warriors way.

Hydro Excavation Is The Best Choice!

Safer Tools

Since the time of the Pharaohs, there has been a need for excavation which has meant hard manual labor which has meant countless injuries and worse. Manual labor was replaced in part by machinery, which was nevertheless still unsafe. Fortunately, 4 Warriors understands full well that today we can and indeed should do better.

Hydro excavation and industrial vacuuming are the latest developments in excavation technology. With these tools, worker exposure to risk is at an all-time minimum. Hydro excavation trucks operate at a safer distance from trench edges and require fewer crew members to operate. The pressurized vacuum quickly sucks away all dirt and debris from the workspace to allow for maximum efficiency.

Safer Techniques

4 Warriors protects its flock even further by using only OSHA-approved techniques. Hydro excavation uses precise incisions to locate utility lines, eliminating the need for guesswork. These can be done remotely and quickly, saving up hours of digging time and the possibility of exposing dangerous utility lines. Now, only what needs to be exposed will be and work can carry on. We proudly employ a crew with advanced industrial training and extensive site-specific certifications such as drug testing, JSA procedures, as well as OQ and TWIC certifications. No more will unskilled laborers have to shoulder the heavy burden and risk life or limb.

4 Warriors Hydro Excavating’s highly experienced team can assist you will all your excavation needs. Feel free to contact them at any time. Thank you and God bless!

Get Better Precision with Vacuum Excavation

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Vacuum excavation is similar to hydro-excavation, only in vacuum excavation debris is sucked up into a truck. Vacuum excavation is a time saver and helps to make projects much safer. It is common to see vacuum excavator trucks working on municipal projects all the way to horizontal directional drilling projects.

Get Better Precision with Vacuum Excavation

Precision

Vacuum excavation gives you the precision that other machines do not. Take a backhoe for example, with a backhoe, the amount of precision you have is limited. After the backhoe has finished the work it can do, you have to employ people to do the rest of the work by hand.

If you are working in an area with buried utilities, pipelines, or even artifacts you do not want the best precision possible at the lowest cost. Using a vacuum excavator can get in those delicate areas, suck up the dirt and debris, and have your project moving without the help of fifty men to dig around wires, pipes or other objects carefully.

Safety

Vacuum excavation is much safer than traditional excavation done with a backhoe. During a vacuum excavation, a large hose is guided by a specialized worker. There are no other workers needed in the vicinity, and the area is typically roped off.

The vacuum can be used for both wet and dry debris. That means the method will work for drilling sites as well as in inclement weather.

History

Vacuum excavation dates back two centuries; it started with hydroexcavating techniques. Technology has come quite a way since its inceptions and has moved from large mining and underground building projects to everyday heavy and light duty projects across the globe.

If you have a digging site that needs to be handled with care, or you are looking to work on some horizontal directional drilling projects in Southern or Western Texas visit the 4 Warriors Hydroexcavating site or give us a call today to find out more at (210)268-7102 contact us.

This Summer, Switch to Hydro Excavation

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Summer brings long days and clear skies, making it the perfect time of year to schedule all your excavation needs. There are many choices of companies and techniques to utilize that it can be overwhelming. You might think that you need huge, unwieldy vehicles and heavy machinery but thanks to new technology those are becoming things of the past. However, after discussing the power of 4 Warriors Hydro Excavation, it will be clear that it is the only sensible option.

This Summer, Switch to Hydro Excavation

Precision

The way hydro excavation is able to achieve all of this is through its innovative design. By using high-powered water streams, it’s able to dig with extreme precision. Gone are the days of creating giant piles of dirt and debris just to access the important areas. Now enormous time can be saved by excavating only what is needed. The minimal dirt and debris is then vacuumed through an industrial hose into a container for easy disposal or replacement.

Precaution

The first responsibility of any excavation company isn’t the dig itself, it’s ensuring that the people and property are as safe as possible. Much of the risk comes from striking buried pipes, utility lines, and more, potentially causing injuries and damage to the lines themselves. On more than one occasion, accidentally damaging cables caused power outages for parts of the electrical grid. Fewer people are required to operate and the precision

Performance

By choosing 4 Warriors, not only are you getting the best excavation technique, you’re getting the most skilled crew that Texas has to offer. With more than six years of combined experience, multiple advanced certifications, and a proven track record doing big jobs all across the state. When you choose us, you get a long tradition of service, faith, and results.

Our highly experienced team can assist you will all your excavation needs. Feel free to contact us at any time. Thank you and God bless!

Maximize Your Historic Preservation Efforts with Hydrovac Excavation

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Historic preservations are popular city projects. Whether a booming Texas city is trying to preserve its historic downtown or nature parks want to install better amenities, renovation projects are a tricky mix of old and new. If your new renovation project has you modifying existing utilities or electrical systems near historic landmarks, turn to hydrovac excavation for more precise excavating.

Maximize Your Historic Preservation Efforts with Hydrovac Excavation

Here’s how hydro excavation can help you manage daylighting and trenching with a minimum of disruption to the historic surroundings:

Target the utility lines precisely.

It’s always challenging to find utilities and underground lines, even in well-planned cities. It can be even trickier if you’re working in an area that doesn’t have standardized layouts or complete records. A trained team of hydrovac technicians can locate the lines with a minimum of sod and soil disruption. This is even more important near old trees, cobbled walking paths, and other settings that need to be preserved.

Contain the dirt away from the landscapes and buildings.

When you’re working in an entirely new construction zone, there’s more room to shift the dirt aside and keep working. But if you’re expanding or renovating an already developed area, you have fewer options.

Hydrovac trucks can contain the slurry of water and removed soil while excavation is underway. This keeps surrounding grass and landscaping safe. It also means you will have less cleanup at the end of the project.

Keep the rest of the preservation efforts on schedule.

Hydrovac excavation is the superior choice for all daylighting, trenching, and excavation projects. It’s safer and less disruptive. You greatly reduce the odds of having a utility strike or emergency that slows the rest of the build.

If you are undertaking a renovation or construction project at a historic preservation site or nature project, contact our team today. 4 Warriors Hydro Excavating will provide a team of experienced excavation technicians to unearth your utilities.

Hydrovac Daylighting Can Cut the Job Time in Half

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If your next project includes a lot of daylighting work, get it done faster with hydrovac excavation. It can cut down on the expected completion time when you need to:

Hydrovac Daylighting Can Cut the Job Time in Half

1. Find the orientation of the pipes and buried cables.

When there are houses and structures in the middle of open spaces, it can be hard to get started. You need to know the direction of the pipes and the wiring, and it’s not always clear. Hydrovac wands can search for the lines quickly and without damaging them.

2. Track down old, unmapped utilities.

Some developments won’t have complete records. But a hydrovac team can quickly find where those utility lines were buried underground. They can also quickly uncover whole lengths of the system if you’re expanding it to reach new developments.

3. Excavate around fixtures instead of removing or damaging them.

If your team needs to fix some of the underground wiring belonging to a lamp post or a stop light, getting to those wires can be impossible with traditional tools. Digging to find the exact connections can either rip through the wires or damage the post. But hydrovac daylighting reveals the wires without any damage.

4. Keep going in freezing cold weather.

Once the ground freezes over, mechanical digging tools won’t be as effective. The ground can also get so hard it rips through delicate installations as you pull it up. But hydrovac excavation can use heated water on the frozen ground. Not only does that cut through the dirt without hurting the utilities, but it also softens the ground as it goes.

5. Get done with work in tight spaces.

There’s not always room for a backhoe. But hydrovac hand-held wands can get into tight spaces and remove dirt with precision. Whether the project is in a tight corner or you need to minimize disruption to meet a deadline, hiring a hydrovac team to handle the daylighting can get it done.

Contact our team at 4 Warriors Hydro Excavating to schedule a time or learn more.

Why You Need Hydro Excavation for Line Location

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Line location is a critical part of the excavation process and it is one that comes with considerable risk. That’s why you need a company with the latest tools to get the job done and 4 Warriors is just the team to handle all your line locate needs.

Why You Need Hydro Excavation for Line Location

A Persistent Problem

When we first started laying utility lines underground, we needed effective excavation methods but had to make do with manual labor. Nowadays, however, the problem has only grown. There are increasing numbers of buried utility lines being installed and an increasing need for the existing lines to be maintained. It was already a delicate balance between water, sewer, electric, as well as natural gas lines without underground traffic light and telecommunication cables being thrown into the mix as well. Much of the time these are not mapped out in a comprehensive and accessible way, so without proper training and tools excavation can lead to situations where workers are injured and one or multiple utility lines are damaged.

Safer, Cheaper, Better

By necessity, much of this work has been done either by manual labor or heavy machinery in the past. But today we have a much more reliable and cost efficient method in the form of hydro excavation. Here’s how it works. First, it makes a hole in the ground via pressurized water blasts, breaking up all the dirt and gravel. Second, a high-powered vacuum sucks all the debris out into a container. Finally, it is transported conveniently offsite. Because of the precision water blasts, there is no risk of cutting utility lines or exposing them to danger. If that wasn’t enough, it saves more time as well, allowing a smaller crew to get the job done ahead of schedule.

When you’re ready to make the switch to the cutting edge in excavation technology, 4 Warriors Hydro Excavating’s highly experienced team is ready to help. Feel free to contact us at any time. Thank you and God bless!