Cleaning sewers lines under hard-to-access property easements used to be a tantalizing but unattainable market niche for Steven Bucklin, co-owner of Absolute Pipe in Newton, Iowa, a small rural town about 30 miles west of Des Moines.
“We knew there was easement work out there, but we couldn’t do it,” says Bucklin, who co-owns the company with Rod and Michelle Jenkins. “It was frustrating.”But that all changed dramatically last summer when the company, which cleans and inspects sewer lines and does trenchless pipeline rehab work throughout Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, bought a Rhino RH-100 easement reel machine, made by Dyna-Vac
