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    Water Truck Chassis

    All the cool kids are using Quik-Vic's these days. Potable Water trucks in Southern Ontario seem to only come in one of two varieties. It's either a clapped out old rust bucket of a truck that is on it's third or fourth vocation with a total mismatch of hoses and fittings and a drive that...
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    PVC vs DUCTILE

    As a guy who makes his living performing hydrostatic pressure and leakage tests on watermains, I assure you that neither DIP or PVC joints can be deflected enough to be useful without leaking ( at test pressures).
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    PVC vs DUCTILE

    Not enough cover over it and or flow through it in the winter time and it freezes.
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    PVC vs DUCTILE

    Finally, an interesting topic. Lol. Here in this part of Ontario PVC is the most widely used pipe material for distribution watermains. I only run into DIP at railway crossings or as risers in a fire system for an ICI building. Transmission mains are CPP or concrete encased welded steel. The...
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    A few projects I have done recently

    I saw that Yacht in King's Wharf Bermuda last summer. We got the owned by a Russian Vodka magnate story about it.
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    Big Tex 7x16 14K Trailer - Newbie Questions

    Surge brakes are terrible. Better hope you never want to back up a hill with the trailer loaded. Once you get some proper electric brakes on that trailer and adjust accordingly to trailer load, you'll eliminate 90% of the banging from the pintle hitch. I'll gladly trade a bit of noise for the...
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    Damn you, Milwaukee

    I have a good quality Mac or Snap-On swivel on the end of all my air hoses. I find them useful for most every air tool. We use these pumps for draining watermain risers and hydrants in cold weather. These things last forever. Probably get 1k hours per impeller in water. This is a new toy I...
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    Galvanized trailers from Canada

    I have a N&N galvanized single axle dump trailer. It's 4 years old now and I've put over 50k on it with my truck and I'm not the only one who pulls it. Still looks like new, nothing but normal wear and tear. 1 set of tires and a clearance lamp. I'm glad it's holding up well because the price of...
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    Western Star 6900XD Haul Truck

    Passenger side convex mirror may still have some life left in it...
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    Western Star 6900XD Haul Truck

    That's a dirt torpedo.
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    A sad reminder

    A sad reminder of the dangers we all face every day at work. Details are still somewhat sketchy on exactly what happened, but word has been traveling through the grapevine line wildfire around these parts. Sewer and Water is a fairly close community around here even though our union has ~15,000...
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    Any other Hydrovac owners or operator here?

    I'm a sucker for a low hanging fruit. All jokes aside hydrovac trucks are in high demand in the Greater Toronto Area. Most large contractors have 4 or 5 of their own trucks running along with a couple of large fleets that service utility contractors. Damn pipe layers hardly ever have to touch...
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    Any other Hydrovac owners or operator here?

    I hear the business really sucks..
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    A few projects I have done recently

    Alaska is a marvelous place to cruise around that's for sure. Going back again next summer.
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    No.1 diesel

    25% worse. I can always tell when the stations have switched to winter blend diesel. I have to fill every day rather than every other day.
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