Finding the Right Installation Equipment Increases Efficiency

Excavators, camera and locator help Iowa septic company handle a wide variety of projects
Finding the Right Installation Equipment Increases Efficiency

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The pair of owners of North Iowa Septic Solutions in Mason City, Iowa, handles different aspects of the business workload, so they each have their favorite tools.  

For Dain Mann, a tracked skid loader gives a boost to excavation duties, helping get jobs done faster and with better results. “For onsite work where we’re always dealing with lateral lines, wheeled machines do not make the work easier,” he says. They can fall into trenches, but more detrimental is the amount of compaction they produce. Use a tracked skid loader, on the other hand, and you don’t have to worry about the amount of damage your machine is doing, he says. That means tracked machines have an advantage working on top of a drainfield, building mounds for a mound system, or building beds for a sand filter.

North Iowa Septic Solutions operates three Case skid loaders: a TR320, a 2013 TR270, and a 2016 TR270.

For municipal repair and community system construction, partner Corey Nichols would not be without his MyTana Mfg. camera and locator. The push camera helps him work efficiently and sort out complex problems that arise.

“Mason City is good about keeping records of what’s in the ground, but the surrounding communities are still catching up to that standard. Records of older work are inconsistent, and for some systems, there are no records at all,” Nichols says.

“You need to know what you’ll find before you dig,” Mann says. “And you have to make sure you’re in the right spot so your job site doesn’t wind up looking like a mole’s burrow with three entrances.”

Learn more about North Iowa Septic Solutions in the November issue of Onsite Installer magazine.



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