The tool that Benny Karnes likes best is the one that helps him do jobs no one else can complete. It’s his Goldak locator.
With his wife, Christiane, Karnes co-owns BDK Septic Service in Santa Rosa, California.
For about 10 years, he used a model that generated a tone to signal proximity to a sonde. When it began failing, he spent some time at the Water & Wastewater Equipment Treatment & Transport (WWETT) Show studying the new models on the market. The Goldak caught his eye in part because of its small size. It folds up and stores in its
