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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Jun 2010
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Jun 2010
New Videos!
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 […]
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Jun 2010
Back to the Lab!
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 […]
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May 2010
Carnivorous Carrots!
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: […]
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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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May 2010
Frequent Flyers!
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 […]
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Apr 2010
Breaking Breakaway Pins
I was tensile testing a batch of pins this afternoon and as I watched the load cell count up the pounds to fracture, I was reminded why […]
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Apr 2010
Alberta-Bound!
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 […]
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Apr 2010
DCD Inside Rep Wins Big!
Kristie “B-as-in-Bob”, Inside Sales and Corporate Accounts rep for DCD Design, has won the DCD Manufacturing Group’s quarterly sales competition for the second time in a year! No […]
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Mar 2010
What's Up, Duckt?
NEW PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT: a new Innerduct Pulling Eye for 1-3/4″ (or 50mm) nominal duct! This “carrot” fills out the 00604 Series Lugged pullers to cover any duct between […]
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