Septic drain field job, 24 hours later. Bobcat T450 (tracks) was used.
The probe sinks into most of this particularly soft drain field without use of the air hammer.
Persistent puddling in a gravel driveway.
This probe hole shows where venting happened right around the problem. (See the three cracks). The softer the ground, the farther away from the probe the venting cracks are likely to appear. (This was very hard ground!)
Another shot from the terrible ponding in a poorly-graded gravel parking lot. EarthBuster got this lot drained in one afternoon!
Here's a probe hole, partially filled with silt as the fluids underground were able to flow again.
This probe hole filed with fluids, showing this particular field to be highly saturated.
Preparing for a septic drain field job. Field was installed down hill. Was failing at the end of the line. Biomass emerging from ground and encroaching into neighbor's yard.
Some plumes of effluent escape from a saturated drain field, where they had been captured by a waterproof biomat. With the biomat fractured, the effluent can once again drain into the leach field.
We recommend taking a few bucks of pea gravel along to fill the probe holes--especially if there are curious kids in the home. It keeps them from dropping Dad's screwdriver down the hole!
This was the rig we used in our scientific field-testing week.
Underground pressure from the EarthBuster opened this vent fracture as it created many open channels underground.
Immediately after treatment with the EarthBuster. 2 hours later, all the remaining puddles were gone.
This shot was taken from our field trials / scientific testing. We were in an agricultural setting with severe hardpan issues and Earthbuster performed beautifully!
Persistent puddling in a gravel driveway. The EarthBuster drained this puddle in a demonstration of its effectiveness--even if it's not ideal for driveways because of continued compaction from vehicles.
This drain field wasn't the problem. The problem was a clogged filter at the septic tank, keeping effluent from making into the drain field at all.
This 60-foot puddle (4-10 inches deep) had remained for 4 days after it rained. Gravel lot used for employee parking. EarthBuster had it cleared up in a couple of hours in an experimental trial. Being in a parking lot, the compaction would come back, of course, but it was an impressive experiment!
In extremely hard soil, the fracturing radius is narrower. Here, dry dirt blows back through the probe hole. (In looser, wetter soils, the fracturing radius can be as much as 10 or 12 feet!)
This is about a week after an EarthBuster job on this particular property. We had filled the probe holes with pea gravel.
Septic drain field job, 24 hours later. Bobcat T450 (tracks) was used.
After the job, the emerging biomass began to dry and to disappear immediately. By the next day, the difference was obvious already.
Preparing for a septic drain field job. Field was installed down hill. Was failing at the end of the line. Biomass emerging from ground and encroaching into neighbor's yard.
This gravel (not our pea gravel) came up from the hole during the EarthBusting pressure.
The track loader caused minimal disturbance to the lawn, which was left unmowed in anticipation of the job (to protect the surface as much as possible).
Here are some pieces of gravel that washed up from a probe hole during an EarthBuster job. Depending on conditions, liquids from below may rise to the surface during the process.
This agricultural site has a severe hardpan from 6 inches down to about 42 inches down. The EarthBuster was able to break it up all the way through, facilitating quick water absorption that was 6 times faster than before treatment!.
Up to 300 feet of hose can be used. This is particularly convenient for sites where there's not room for the tractor and the compressor.
On the rare occasion where the ground is extremely hard, the probe can get stuck--especially when a small tractor is being used. With a little wiggling and leverage, it comes out and life goes on!
Biomass had filled the drain field, making it impossible to drain normally. Was also breaking the ground surface at the end of the field.
Here's a probe hole one week after the EarthBuster service. The hole had been filed with pea gravel right after the job.
Loading up after a 2-hour drain field remediation and a 2-hour remediation of a poorly-draining lot downhill from an overflowing spring--all on the same job site.
