The CV Series hydrovac from Premier Oilfield Equipment Co. drew attention from several sectors in its trade show debut at the Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo, including the oil and gas industry, specifically pipeline maintenance, and the municipal market, says Ian Dickinson, Premier’s chief executive officer.
“The Pumper and Cleaner show provided an ideal opportunity for Premier to showcase our innovative and proprietary CV Series hydrovacs, and with it, our unique partnership with Caterpillar. We received tremendous feedback, both from customers and other people in the industry,” Dickinson says.
“They certainly liked the patented Sweep design in our hydrovac units and the safety and efficiency it provides,” he says of the mechanized Mud Sweep off-loading system that eliminates the need to raise the debris tank and avoid potential overhead hazards.
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Dickinson says customers were also interested and impressed by the Caterpillar partnership and the chassis optimization. “The show was a great success,” he says. “We met with many current and potential customers. The response was fantastic and has driven significant opportunity for our products. We will be sure to attend this premier event in the coming years. We have a number of interested customers that we are working on orders for and received a significant amount of interest in the machines and order inquiry.”
Simple in design, the CV Series with carbon steel tank is available in four models, the CV100 with tandem axle, CV100T with tandem axle and pusher axle, CV200 with tri-drive, and CV300 with tri-drive and pusher axle. Water capacity ranges from 1,620 gallons in the CV100 to 2,340 gallons in the CV300, with debris capacity of 13 and 14 yards (CV300).
“You don’t see a lot of components added on,” says company founder and chief operating officer Gary Harms. “You have your debris and water tank integrated as one, a couple of silencers, a filter, blower and boom. It’s simple to maintain and simple to work with every day.”
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Developed in Canada, Premier purchased the patented Mud Sweep and Mud Slide off-loading system three years ago. “You open the back door and the dirt and water fall out [approximately 60 percent],” Harms says. “And we sweep out the rest.”
The mechanically assisted Mud Sweep system also makes compacted debris easier to off-load, he says. “It eliminates taking the tank into the air, which is inherently dangerous. You close your door and about two minutes later you’re on the road.”
Harms says the company has put about 400 trucks with the Sweep system tank body on the road since 2002.
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The truck’s boom is mounted to the elliptical head of the debris tank, rather than the top shell, for added structural strength. The boom, seated along the passenger side rear fender when traveling, swings door-to-door and is controlled by wireless remote. It has a 26-foot reach and excavating depth of 20 feet without additional piping.
“We use the Robuschi blower system. It pulls about 6,200 cfm at 27 inches of mercury,” Harms says. A Cat pump feeds water to the van-mounted boiler.
Mounted on a Caterpillar chassis, the hydroexcavator is powered by Cat CT13 (12.4 L, 410-475 hp) and CT15 (15.21 L, 450-550 hp) six-cylinder diesel engines and performance matched to the Cat CX31 automatic transmission (six forward speeds and one reverse).
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“It starts with the motor and transmission,” Harms says. “We wanted to build on the automatic transmission. We did our research and found the CX31 is probably the best transmission in the world, and you’ve got the Cat motors to back you up; your drive train is solid, stable and reliable. The drive train is the big key, and the Cat name,” he says. “The parts and service you get with their dealer network can’t be matched by anyone else in our book.” 970/542-1975; www.poequipment.com.
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