Hydro excavation is a soil removing service. Instead of mechanical tools, the process uses pressurized water to create a dirt slurry. [📹 anti.digging.digging]

I was getting ready to mock this. How dumb, when we used to just use a shovel. But then I saw the wires and pipes. Yikes! I digress!

Looks good, but you need to bring dirt and grass to fill it back up...

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Dirt slurry- aka mud

I work in the pipeline industry,these guys are a great help to us. There’s places where we can’t use mechanical digging like in a station. We also use them to pothole to locate gas line and other utilities.

Would have taken 45 seconds with an excavator that doesn’t require hauling or connecting to water

This is a baby Vemeer unit. Real truck units can literally suck the blood out of your body like a vampire. I used to use the truck version when we dug up Petroleum pipelines. One guy cut his foot clean through with the power washer set at 4500 psi.

Dirt slurry, pretty sure my older sister fed me one of those once

A dirt slurry?! wtf! It’s called mud 😂

This also works under water to set dock posts.

OK - as someone who has broken a million sprinkler pipes - this is cool AF!