Vacuum excavator

Unless you live in an area where summers are miserably muggy.

 

Fair enough, but still better than inside of a manufacturing plant or steel mill

 

From what I've seen, not a lot of driving in that job. I wrenched for a year at an outfit with a couple hundred of those units. 15k-20k hours on some of the higher hour trucks and barely 200k km of drive distance.

 

We contracted out a hydrovac company to dig holes in Queens where it's super rocky here. Upgrading the electrical system in the area and they make short work of digging. They can have a hole 7ft down in less than an hour whereas us digging by hand can be almost a full 8 hour day if not multiple days for one. They come out of upstate NY and the company has 12-13 trucks and a host of other equipment...so there is def money to be made.

 

They are great in spots surrounded by utility lines too.

 

Can’t use a backhoe with a tiny bucket?

 

Super suckers have almost no chance of actually making contact with underground lines, so they are considered safer.