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We had an opportunity to compare our 4-ton 00503-204 DUB-Lite HDD swivel to some other manufacturers’ 4-ton offerings. The comparison sheet on the DUB-Lite page tells the story.
A DUB-Lite swivel may cost a little more up front, but look at the numbers – twice as heavy, 25% bigger, etc… You’re just getting more swivel for your money.
DCD Design is pleased to announce that Ryan Preddy has been appointed Vice President – Sales & Marketing. In this expanded role, Ryan will be focusing on organic growth of DCD Design in terms of new product offerings and markets within our existing product lines.
Congratulations Ryan!
Our Midwest warehouse is now operating! This is due to feedback from you, our customers. Thank you, we always welcome feedback.
We’re now able to offer Ground shipping with delivery in 1-2 days to most of the Midwest for many of our most popular tools, including line stringing swivels, underground duct pullers, threaded innerduct “carrots” and DUB-Lite swivels for horizontal directional drilling / boring.
Give our 800# a call today to check stock and place your order! 1-888-794-8357.
DCD Design is making arrangements to open a new warehouse in the Midwest, to provide immediate support to our customers when they need it – “NOW!”
We’ll be just an overnight shipment away for many of our most popular tools, including line stringing swivels, underground duct pullers, threaded innerduct “carrots” and DUB-Lite swivels for horizontal directional drilling / boring.
Look for more details in the coming weeks, and be ready to take advantage of our quick turn-around, moving even faster!
The DCD Manufacturing Group had their annual golf tournament on Monday the 5th, to coincide with the Independence Day long weekend. The weather cooperated in the end, and the afternoon got nicer as the strokes added up.
This has become a tradition for DCD Design: to bring together office and shop staff, our vendors, and our associated Group companies to enjoy a team-scramble to the top of the heap! Trophies were awarded, great prizes from our generous vendors were drawn, and we enjoyed dinner and a beverage with the Group in the late-afternoon sun.
For my once-or-twice a year outing, I’m glad to say I only lost one ball – unfairly – up a particularly thick evergreen! Otherwise, we all had an excellent round.
The Mad Ducktor’s production company has been busy producing some new videos this month: we’ve got one on the hand-held ‘Q’ Lasher, one how-to for splicing the DCD duct rod and one incidental video showing a Design moment that let us exhibit some random ingenuity.
Check out the DCD Design channel on Youtube for all the videos, and look for embedded links on the DCD product pages shortly.
We had a busy morning, tensile testing at the material lab: our semi-annual destructive tests of the 00505 Series Line Swivels once again confirmed their rated load capacities. Combined with the full material traceability inherent in our production routine, we can back up our Safe Working Loads.
Have you seen the Line Swivels recently? The batch number and our maker’s mark is now permanently engraved on each Line Swivel. We’re even capable of adding graphics!
Also new and notable is the 3/16″ Detectable Duct Rod! DCD Design pioneered detectable rod in 2003 with 5/16″ and 7/16″ diameter rods. Now we’ve brought in 3/16″ rod mounted onto the lightweight Reel Rod frame, for quick set-up on shorter runs.
To celebrate, we’re putting ALL the Duct Rodders on sale for the month of June! See our monthly newsletter for all the details, or check the DCD website.
The Mad Duckter is working on a few other things back in the lab, ready to be unleashed in the coming months. Keep an eye open – but remember, The Duckter is no quack!
Watch out for those innerduct pulling eyes – they’ve got sharp teeth!
We were making a short video for the various duct pulling tools last week: wire mesh grips, innerduct pulling eyes, the expanding shell pullers and the sealed “bullet” pullers. I was installing them onto typical pieces of duct to compare the time and methods involved.
Getting a Wire Mesh Grip onto a 1-1/4″ duct took some exertion, and then I picked up a 00604-series Innerduct Pulling Eye and threaded that on. (The tapered threads lead to the “carrot” nickname.) Cranked it on tight in a few seconds, but didn’t notice the sharp teeth imprinting themselves into my palm.
Picked up a 00620 Expanding Shell Puller next; slotted that in and cranked the eye tight to engage the shells– and noticed a few drops on the eye of the puller as I put it down again. Kept going, though; only one more puller…
I realized that my hand was shredded as I was socketing the 00650 Sealed Duct Puller over the end of the duct. The o-ring in the outer sleeve sealed down over the end of the duct and the eye was already smeared red. Turned the eye until the shells engaged the inside wall and gave it a tug to show that it had bit into the duct.
And there it is: four options from DCD Design. Each one has advantages, and one of them is particularly sharp! You can see about three bandages on my hand in this second take, and I make sure to mention gloves as an option.
We’ve been bouncing around airports for the past couple weeks: Jon visited John Deere Landscapes in Alberta (Calgary and Edmonton) and Ryan’s just back from the NASTT No-Dig show in Chicago.
That’s straight after tour of New Orleans (IEEE Transmission & Distribution), Texas, and Munich (the BAUMA show). The BAUMA show was pretty epic by all accounts, taking over an enormous amount of show space!
But now we’re back and tackling some exciting new prospects. There will be a couple New Product Announcements in the coming months, and take note: there is a new promotion on our 00620/621 Series Duct Pullers and Accessories – both metric and imperial sizing – this month.
All packed up and ready for two open houses in Calgary and Edmonton this week: John Deere Landscapes are opening their first Western Canada branches, and I’ll be demoing a few DCD pipe pulling products Wednesday and Thursday!
DCD Plow Grips, Duct Pullers, and Wire Mesh Grips are all available (and more besides). Our Innerduct Pulling Eyes – carrots! – are part of the fun, and remember they’re our featured product for April.
It’s going to be a busy month for DCD travelers: Ryan, our Sales Manager, is headed to New Orleans for the IEEE Transmissions and Distribution show next week, and then to Germany for the European BAUMA show the week following! What do you think: are we going to cross paths with anyone in our travels?
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