Air-Vacuum Excavation

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Air-VacuumExcavation
What It Is
Benefits It Offers
How Its Used
The Leader in Air-Vacuum Excavation
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Air-Vacuum Excavation

• Used in the 1950s and 1960s
• bell joint repair
• cathodic protection

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Air-Vacuum Excavation

• Used in the 1950s and 1960s
• bell joint repair
• cathodic protection
• Rapid growth in the 1990s
• underground utility location and verification
  for directional boring

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Air-Vacuum Excavation

• Common applications
• underground utility location
• natural gas pipeline bell joint repair
• pipeline cathodic protection installation
• natural gas/water line service terminations or
  installations
• manway and valve box cleaning/maintenance
• power pole/sign post installation

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Air-Vacuum Excavation Then and Now

• Obsolete Ineffective Systems
• 120 psi air compressor
• pipe nipple nozzle
• 500-600 fps

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Air-Vacuum Excavation Then and Now

• Todays VACMASTERS Systems
• 150-220 psi air compressor
• proprietary Air-Tec nozzle
• 2,100 fps

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Hydroexcavation?
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Hydro-Excavation
Air-VacuumExcavation
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• slow process
• haul mud away,pay to dispose of mud, haul fill
  dirt in

• rapid process
• dry spoils from excavation can be reused as fill

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Hydro-Excavation
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• continual hassle and expense of finding and
  transporting water

• inexhaustible air supply means you can keep
  working

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Hydro-Excavation
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• non-compres-sible, easily damagesburied
  utilities
• conductive
• potentially dangerous

• compressible, flows around buried utilities
  without harm
• non-conductive
• safe for utilitiesand operator

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Hydro-Excavation
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• can degrade roadbase

• safe for roadbase

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Hydro-Excavation
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• can spread contamination

• will not spread contamination

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Hydro-Excavation
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VACMASTERS Air-Vacuum Excavation Systems

• single John Deere diesel engine
• selectable air or water digging
• remote operation
• supervisory control panel with auto shutdown
• Barrel-Top Interceptor option

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Whats the Difference?

• SYSTEM
• 4000

HORSEPOWER!
SYSTEM 3000
SYSTEM 1000
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VACMASTERS SYSTEM 1000

• trailer, truck or skid mounted
• 68 hp John Deere 4-cylinder diesel
• enclosed powerhead
• cyclonic filtration system

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VACMASTERS SYSTEM 3000

• heavy-duty Ford F-550 diesel chassis
• 100 hp John Deere 4-cylinder turbo-diesel
• self-purging filtration system

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VACMASTERS SYSTEM 4000

• 155 hp John Deere 6-cylinder turbo-diesel
• works in heavy clay and ground frost
• fast acting interceptor canister

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VACMASTERS SYSTEM 4000

• self-purging filtration system
• enclosed powerhead
• Ford F-650 non-CDL chassis

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VACMASTERS

• the leader in air-vacuum excavation systems
• more than twenty years of experience
• 20,000 sq.ft. manufacturing facility
• all manufacturing and assembly done in-house

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VACMASTERS Advantages

• factory-direct pricing and customer service
• 12-month warranty
• national and international service facilities
• 100 money-back guarantee

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VACMASTERS Assurance
North America
South America
Australia

• More than 500 systems in operation

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Additional VACMASTERS Information

• www.vacmasters.com
• 1-800-466-7825