It wasn’t too many years ago that Brett Tutor was apprenticing for his grandfather Chet Tutor’s home inspection company, a teenager hand-digging to uncover septic tank lids. Working in the hot Texas sun, he recalls jobs where he shoveled for hours through rock-hard soils and tree roots before hitting pay dirt.
One time, equipped only with a metal probe and a shovel, he was stymied trying to find the concrete tank in a yard with limestone pretty much everywhere 6 inches below the surface. “That probably took me six hours. That one was the worst. Everything I hit underground sounded like
