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Hydro Excavation Can Ensure A Safe Dig At Your Job Site

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When performing any type of job, safety is the number one priority to keep workers and bystanders free from danger or harm. Uncovering underground cables or utilities with heavy machinery is one such job that has the potential of being very dangerous. Read the information below to learn how a dedicated and reliable company can safely perform this job at your work site.

When using heavy equipment to dig underground, there’s always the possibility that the machinery will hit a buried cable, pipe or utility. This action can potentially cause a fire or explosion and injure those who are nearby. To complete this job safely and successfully, companies or individuals should contact an experienced company that specializes in hydro excavating and industrial vacuum services.

When employing hydro excavating services to uncover buried utilities and cables, trained professionals use pressurized water to wash away dirt and debris that surrounds underground pipes and utilities. When the high-powered water stream knocks the dirt and debris loose, an industrial vacuum hose draws the debris into a holding tank. The debris inside the tank is later transported to an approved location for dumping.

4 Warriors Hydro Excavating recently excavated under existing lines in Gillett, Texas. This allowed our to customer to run new gas lines into the facility and eliminated the potential for line strikes inside of an H2S facility.

Hydro Excavation Can Ensure A Safe Dig At Your Job Site 4 Warriors Hydro Excavating recently excavated under existing lines in Gillett, Texas

When you need professional hydro excavation services, including potholing, trenching, day lighting or industrial vacuuming, contact us for more information or for an estimate. We are a family owned company with Christian values and we strive to offer the best service that’s cost-effective, reliable and safe.

Hydro Excavating Saves Trees

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Trees have many positive impacts on both the environment and on landscape aesthetics. They absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as well as harmful gasses such as sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide. They provide shade in the summer and cool the surrounding air through evaporation. Their presence has a stress relieving effect on most people and they enhance the beauty of both residential and private property.

Trees also enhance property real estate values. They make rental property more attractive to tenants. This is why you shouldn’t take lightly any ground excavation work done around the trees on your property. Damaging the roots is harmful and potentially fatal to trees because they use them for water and nutrient absorption and for structural stability.

Hydro excavatingHydro Excavating Saves Trees is used for safely digging in the vicinity of underground plumbing, electrical lines, and optical cables. It uses water under pressure to loosen soil which is immediately sucked out along with the water with a vacuum pipe. Likewise, hydro excavating is safer for tree root systems when digging holes and trenches near trees.

There is no reason to take out a tree, relocate it, or risk damage to its roots with mechanical digging methods. If you have large beautiful trees on your property, consider that they take between 10 to 30 years to reach their full size. This is a long time to wait because of root damage caused by excavation work. Even if a tree survives root damage, its ability to absorb water and nutrients from the ground is weakened. This in turn stunts the tree’s growth and makes it more vulnerable to disease.

When you need to have excavation work done, protect the environment, your property value, and enjoyment of your property by hiring hydro excavation professionals for the job. 4 Warriors Hydro Excavating has the expertise for the job without damaging the landscape of your commercial or residential property. For more information, contact us.

Hydro Excavating Embraces National Safe Digging Month

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Hydro Excavating Embraces National Safe Digging MonthApril 2016 marks the return of a very important, national observation. It’s Safe Digging Month and all of us here at 4 Warriors Hydro Excavating wanted to take a moment and discuss digging safety. Originally designed to highlight dangers in the pipeline industry, it has since morphed to include digging in other industries. Plus, it serves as a good reminder to residential property owners too.

Hydro excavating is one of the safest ways to dig that our family knows of and we’d heartily recommend it to everyone that needs to reach below the earth’s surface. What makes it safer than just grabbing a shovel or renting a backhoe? For one, it avoids the need for large, search holes. And as we all know, holes pose fall risks as well as help to make the ground temporarily unstable. Also, they may inadvertently trap wildlife and capture standing water. Standing water, of course, creates dangers of its own.

Dangerous holes are just the beginning. Hydro excavating keeps people and machines from cutting into dangerous materials. For example, it can safely identify pipes used to transport raw sewage, natural gas, petroleum and chemical plant waste from place to place. Plus, it can just as easily locate minor things like residential irrigation pipes, termite treatment lines and underground cables. What else can hydro excavating do to ensure digging safety?

Once underground obstacles have been identified, they may be mapped for future reference. So after catastrophic events like earthquakes and sink holes, the maps may help area managers protect residents and plan rebuilds. They can also make relocating or adding various resources to storm damaged areas easier too. For instance, after flooding managers may need to dig a diversion channel to prevent further drowning deaths.

To learn more about safe digging and how hydro excavation is key to its continued execution, please contact us today.

Trenching with Hydro Excavation Technology

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Trenching with Hydro Excavation TechnologyTechnology is a good thing, better yet it is a great thing when it saves time, money and even lives.

Hydro excavating is an example of new technology that is inching its way into commonplace in the world of construction.  Contractors are choosing hydro excavating over traditional backhoe as they become educated to the savings in time, insurance and clean up.

What is hydro excavating?

Highly pressurized water is used to cut through dirt while a vacuum system simultaneously removes excess soil.

Why is it better than traditional backhoe digging?

Hydro excavating is much more precise as it removes the soil. There is far less clean up work and the risk of damaging pipes and utility line is low.

Contractors prefer hydro technology over traditional big machinery because it is precise, cleaner and saves money in insurance due to its higher safety rating and lower man power needs.

Why use hydro excavating for trenching?

Trenching is actually one of the most common uses of hydro technology. There are several forms of trenching. Each has its own application depending on the type of work to be done. A few forms of trenching include slot, box, cross and exploratory.

All trenching work begins with a pothole. The water pressure/vacuum system efficiently cuts straight down into the soil, digging as deep as needed for the necessary application. Once the proper depth has been reached, trenching in either a straight line or a circle will begin.

Hydro excavating can complete slot trenching by cutting a narrow and very accurate line. This will allow for burial of pipeline, fiber optics and cable lines.

Contact us to learn what 4 Warriors Hydro Excavating can accomplish for your next construction project or pipeline repair work. We have a reputation for integrity and excellence in service. Give us a call, you’ll be glad you did.

Vacuum Excavation is Fast, Clean, and Responsible

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Vacuum excavationVacuum Excavation is Fast, Clean, and Responsible is the specific process of removing debris, soils, or other materials from a hole or piece of land using powerful water (hydro-excavation) or air suction.  Materials are loosened then sucked through a pipe that is approximately 6 inches to 1 foot wide (depending on the size of the vehicle) and with an airspeed of over 200 miles per hour.  The materials are then stored in a tank for disposal.

The specific instrument, unsurprisingly called a vacuum (or suction) excavator, was created in its earliest form during the 1960s and since then, gone through a number of upgrades and improvements to get to where it is today.  When using the excavator, and operator will guide the hand-held tube to the site while the machine will dislodge the materials and suck it up.  The operator and boom allow for some level of precision.  The size of the material that it can hold is limited, so sometimes bigger objects need to be disposed of separately.

Vacuum excavation is commonly used for site remediation or investigations, a variety of construction projects, and other civil engineering work. It is a popular option because it is minimally invasive and does not tend to destroy a lot of property.  Another reason for the popularity of vacuum excavation is the fact that it is much more efficient and can be cheaper than the alternatives.  This process can assist some agencies to locate and map sensitive underground utilities, in turn saving money for taxpayers and time for contractors.

4 Warriors Hydro Excavating has years of proven safe and cost efficient excavation methods. Contact us to find out which one makes the most sense for you as well as learn about all of our other services.

Three Facts You Should Know About Hydro Excavating

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Three Facts You Should Know About Hydro ExcavatingYou may not know all there is to know about hydro excavating, so we rounded up three facts to get you started:

1. Hydro Excavation is Precise

Hydro excavation uses high-pressure water and suction to create openings in the earth. The result is a slurry of water and earth that is suctioned into a holding tank.

Since the high-pressure water is intense and focused, the result is a highly precise excavation. Backhoes and cats have to navigate around piles of dirt. This heavy equipment can ruin the surrounding area.

Hydro excavation works extremely well in rain gardens, parks or areas in need of drainage sumps and trenches. Small slits and trenches are excavated without damaging the surrounding area.

2. Hydro Excavation is Efficient

Probably the most amazing aspect of hydro excavation is the speed at which the intense streams of water impact the area and suck away dirt. What can take days of digging takes hours with hydro excavation.

Aside from the time saved, hydro excavation is efficient because it can handle a variety of soil types, from clay to sand. Additionally, hydro excavation maintains its efficiency even in freezing temperatures.

3. Hydro Excavation is Non-Destructive

As mentioned earlier, hydro excavation is precise and won’t damage the surrounding area. Hydro excavation will also prevent damage underground. Unlike metal shovels or claws, high pressure water does not damaged coaxial cables, pipes or other underground utilities. This is especially helpful if you are unsure of what is beneath the soil.

Hydro excavation services can assist you in locating utilities should you need to make any repairs.

To talk more about your interests in hydro excavation services, then please Contact Us. Thanks.