Pumping professional Brent Gale appreciates the utility and speed of modern technology, including his fleet of able vacuum trucks. But the owner of Goodwin Septic Tank Service in Grand Junction, Colorado, maintains that his technicians’ go-to tool is a simple staple of manual labor.“I used to make what we called ‘lid getters’ – long-handled hooks to pick up septic tank lids – out of rebar, because our technicians would often forget them on a job site and we lost a lot. But now our guys prefer the ones they see in the pages of Pumper,” Gale says, referring to Top
Favorite Tools and Tough Jobs
A pumper talks about his most handy tool and how his team gave a plumbing crew a breath of fresh air.
Jun 15, 2015 | by Mary Shafer |
