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Trenchless Equipment’s Pipe Expanding Bursting Heads
Contractors expect their pipe replacement equipment to be reliable. Trenchless Equipment (TE) has spent a number of years working closely with the pipeline contractors refining its pipe bursting equipment in order to exceed expectations. First, TE starts out with the strongest metal to mill into a pipe bursting head. Second, we “through-harden” the material to…
Read MoreManaging Wire Rope Stretch
Trenchless Equipment (TE) Pipe Bursting machines utilize “Compact” Swaged Wire Rope. This type of wire rope is often used in logging. Big Timber, a logging series on Netflix, demonstrates how these swaged wire ropes are used in logging. For pipe bursting use, the benefit of this rope is that it is flexible, has high tonnage…
Read MorePipe Bursting Commercial Drain Lines
Pipe Bursting can be used to repair and replace commercial property owners’ cast iron drain lines. Convenience stores, fast food restaurants, sports arenas, and movie theaters often need to replace their drain lines. Soda pop corrodes the cast iron drains installed in these facilities. Polyethylene pipe enables pipe bursting machines to quickly and efficiently replace…
Read MoreAsbestos Concrete Pipe
Trenchless Equipment recently spoke to the City of Sunnyvale in California in order to assist a client who was replacing an Asbestos Concrete (AC) Pipe. The city said that if the client was to proceed by pipe bursting the line, then the city recommended using a snap cutter to remove the section of AC pipe…
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