Air or hydro excavation protects your underground facilities from second-party damage since vacuum excavation is the best way to get to buried structures for installation, verification or repair. Pick-and-shovel crews are dangerous, labor intensive, and expensive. The VACMASTERS System 4000 features selectable air or water digging, allowing crews to use air 95 percent of the time with water available when needed. 

Digging with air offers these benefits:

• Speed – pothole in seven to eight minutes on average
• Efficiency – no mud hauling, disposal costs, or return with backfill
• Safety – for buried utilities and for the operator