When Cary Hansen decided to steer his company — Hansen’s Plumbing in Ventura, California — into more lucrative sewer and drain work and depend less on service and repair plumbing, he invested in a Vac-Tron CV SGT trailer-mounted vacuum excavator. (Vac-Tron is a Vermeer MV Solutions brand owned by Vermeer Corp.)
The veteran plumber and drain cleaner’s rationale was simple: The hydroexcavator doesn’t get hurt while excavating pits for pipe bursting or installing new cleanouts, digging trenches for sewer line installations, and exposing underground utility lines.“We never have to pay workers’ comp for it,” quips Hansen, who established his company in
