Storms can be rough on your hydrants. Whether it's snow that causes a plow truck to plow through your hydrant or flooding from the torrential rain that makes a construction worker in a 4x4 run over it, the damage to your hydrants can be devastating. Fortunately, there's an easy-to-use tool to help mark your hydrants so that they're easier to see: hydrant flags. Available in hydrant spring flags and universal mount flags, the only thing you need to worry about is installing them. Here's a quick look at how to install each type quickly and easily.
Have you ever had issues with tightening nuts on long bolts or studs that are used on fittings? If you have, you're not alone. When you have a fitting that has a wide range of adjustment, it often has a long bolt or stud that can make it difficult to tighten the nut past a certain point with a regular socket set. You could use a wrench to tighten the nut, but that requires a certain amount of space to move the tool and frequent re-setting of the tool's orientation while only tightening the nut a few degrees at a time, costing you time in the field.
How easy is it for your fire department to find hydrants when they're needed most, with a house on fire in the background? Though there are any number of simple products available on the market, will they get the job done when the fire department is scrambling to get a hose connected? Here's a look at the right way to prepare your hydrants with hydrant markers that show up when it matters most.
When you work in the water utility industry, there are any number of tools that you put to use on a daily basis. But how many of them are really designed for the job and how many are simply good enough to struggle through and complete a task? When it comes to getting your crew working effectively and efficiently, having the right tools can make all the difference between getting the job done fast and having an injury or even death on a job site. Fortunately, New Concept Tools is focused on delivering the right tools for the water utility industry, with features that help you get the job done right. Here's a quick overview of some of our top options.
When you're trying to get a service or valve box cleaned out, a cleanout spoon is a great tool to have. But which type of cleanout spoon is right for the situation you're dealing with? At New Concept Tools, we believe in providing our customers with the right tools to get the job done, but many of our customers have the same question. This guide will help you select the right cleanout spoon for the task at hand.
When winter's biting at the door and you're dealing with problems in your water utility, it's not the time to discover that you don't have what you need to fix the problem. Fortunately, there are a wide range of solutions that we've developed at New Concept Tools that help your crew get the job done and get out of the cold as quickly as possible. Here's a quick look at a few of the options you have available that makes your prep kit more complete and your winter go more smoothly.
If you've ever had to install or replace a gate valve, you know how heavy, bulky, and awkward they can be to move effectively. Adding insult to injury, waterworks employees often work in wet conditions, making the gate valve slippery and hard to grip. To avoid accidents that can cost your organization in terms of damaged materials, employee morale, worker's comp claims and legal problems, it's important to use safety precautions when lifting and installing gate valves. In this post, we'll discuss how to safely lift a gate valve into position to help avoid injuries and damage to the valve.
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When you're working in the industrial underbelly of the waterworks industry, you've seen a little bit of everything. The junk that was flushed down a drain that backed up a full circuit of your system. The damage caused from frost heaves and sink holes, requiring fast repairs to get service back on track. The frustration of trying to work with tools that were not designed for the equipment and fittings you work with on a daily basis. You can only do so much about little Jimmy flushing a disturbing amount of Legos and other toys down the drain or the motion of the earth, but you can do something about working with substandard tools. Here's why having the right tool for the job helps improve productivity.
With the serious lead problems encountered in Flint following the change in water supply, municipalities and water utilities across the country are quickly taking action to remove lead service lines from their network. But at the same time, our recovering economy means that these organizations don't necessarily have the budget available to dive right in on an immediate replacement. Fortunately, some government agencies and organizations are creating assistance programs to help this process along. Combined with New Concept Tools' Service Line Puller Kits, your municipality or utility can quickly and effectively change out lead service lines for a lower immediate cost. Here are the details.
Bang - foosh! It's one of the worst sounds in waterworks, because it's the sound of one of your hydrants being taken out by construction equipment, a snow plow or a truck that didn't realize it was there. How do you make your hydrants more visible to help prevent damage? Our answer is hydrant markers. Here's some basic information to get you started:
