Around the Neighbourhood
Here’s a photo from the jobsite: Direct Horizontal pulled a pair of 1400 meter gas lines under the Fraser River this summer.
The photo shows the set-up for the first […]
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Sep 2010
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Jun 2010
Breaking the Mold
Spent the morning at the foundry, inspecting the cast-alloy clevis ends of the 350 ton and 500 ton swivels, and discussing the method with the foundrymen there. […]
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May 2010
We Have a New Winner
A couple months back, we had Maxi-DUB swivel no. 250102 come in for overhaul. That swivel was 11 years old and we called it The Old […]
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Mar 2010
The Old Dog
There’s a Maxi-DUB swivel leaving our Service Center this week, serial number 250-102. The first three digits are the tonnage – 250 tons. The second […]
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Aug 2009
HDD on TV!
The Horizontal Directional Drilling Division of The Mears Group is one of the largest HDD contractors in the world. They’ve also got some great content on […]
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Jul 2009
Going the Distance – Maintaining HDD Swivels
We wrote a piece for Trenchless Technology magazine a couple months back, offering some general advice on maintaining pullback swivels. This applies to any size swivel, […]
