Electrical shock is a potential hazard to onsite wastewater treatment system professionals. Written procedures for dealing with electrical hazards must be part...
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How to Prevent Damage to Your Camera
So picture this: you’re kneeling in wet grass next to a clean-out, shoving your Gen-Eye pipe inspection system slowly down into the...
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What is SWOT Analysis?
As a business owner, when you start making plans for the coming year, it’s important to step back and take a long,...
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How Not to Break Your Stuff – Part 2
To continue the discussion of equipment maintenance (see Part 1 here), now we’ll take a look at strategies to preserve the life...
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Silence Will Kill Your Safety Culture
So you see a colleague violating a safety procedure while operating a pumper truck. Or breaking an office ethics protocol. Or doing something as...
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How Not to Break Your Stuff - Part 1
One of the more interesting things that we’ve learned in General Pipe Cleaner’s 90-year history as a machine manufacturer is that you...
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Felling Trailers Announces Winning Bid of 2020 Trailer for a Cause Auction
Felling Trailers recently conducted its eighth annual online auction of an FT-3 drop deck utility trailer to benefit a non-profit organization: the...
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Why You Should Discourage Homeowners From Flushing Pet Waste
America's 78 million-plus dogs collectively deposit 10 million tons of waste per year. That is enough to fill over 268,000 tractor trailers....
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Choosing the Correct Cable for Your Sectional Machine
I have a friend who is quick to label brands or movements with a mysteriously strong, almost cult-like following. Examples include Apple,...
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Hot-Shot Pipe-Thawing Machine Wins Editor’s Choice Award
General Pipe Cleaners’ Hot-Shot pipe-thawing machine was selected by Rental magazine for the Editor’s Choice Award.
The Hot-Shot was chosen as a winner...
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Consider Efficiency When Buying Your Next Service Truck
In terms of flexibility and productivity, Wendy Garland — co-owner of Garland Waste Services in Center Conway, New Hampshire — says it’s...
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Contractors Share Equipment Fleet Management Best Practices
At CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2020 earlier this year, a panel discussion was held on fleet management. Here, four contractors involved in the panel discuss...
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7 Overlooked Safety Issues for Installers
Your tailgate safety meetings probably focus mainly on the major hazards involved with septic installation work like operating heavy equipment and trench...
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Online Reviews Shouldn’t Be a Second Thought for Business Owners
The fancy marketing jargon is “reputation management,” but most contractors say it like a four-letter word: reviews.
If this topic makes you stick...
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Making a Case for Workplace Candor
Most people are told at an early age that if they have nothing nice to say, they should say nothing at all....
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Product News: September 2020
Goulds Water Technology, a Xylem brand, GSD Series sewage pumpThe GSD Series submersible sewage pump from Goulds Water Technology, a Xylem brand, is...
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Taking Care of Drip Distribution Systems
A drip dispersal system is a small-diameter pressurized effluent distribution system that can deliver small, precise doses of effluent to the soil...
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Now Is the Time to Develop Your Business Plan for 2021
There’s no need to beat around the bush: 2020 has been a rough year for pretty much everyone. (And it’s not over...
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Rules & Regs: Colorado Residents Concerned Development Will Harm Water Quality
A proposal to increase residential development in the Dolores River Valley has residents of Montezuma County, Colorado, concerned about water quality and...























