Hydrants can be a significant part of your water utility's overall assets. They're also heavy, bulky and difficult to place correctly without a lot of trouble. Because they can involve trench work, it can be [...]
How easy is it for your fire department to find hydrants when they're needed most, with a house on fire in the background? Though there are any number of simple products available on the market, will they get [...]
Storms can be rough on your hydrants. Whether it's snow that causes a plow truck to plow through your hydrant or flooding from the torrential rain that makes a construction worker in a 4x4 run over it, the [...]
A lot of water utilities have begun to lay new water service lines and replace aging lead in their systems in response to the Flint water crisis. But replacing service lines can create a lot of work while [...]
When you work in water utilities, your efficiency is only as good as the tools you use. At New Concept Tools, our focus is on developing the best possible tools and solutions for your water utility's needs. [...]
Whether you're an emergency contractor or water utility, pulling service lines can be an expensive and time-consuming proposition. You need to dig up the old line, run new line, then re-fill and repair the [...]
When your crew is out in the field, running into out-of-round copper tubing can cause serious delays in getting the job done. Occasionally, they may run into an older fitting that still requires a flared [...]
Though we're mostly past the worst of winter this time of the year, it's still the season to be prepared for water main breaks. With the changes in temperature and the freeze-thaw cycles that occur this time [...]
Tools. When you work in the water utility industry, you know that your crew's efficiency is only as good as the tools they have available for use. Unfortunately, it's easy to get sucked into using what's [...]
Have you ever had issues with tightening nuts on long bolts or studs that are used on fittings? If you have, you're not alone. When you have a fitting that has a wide range of adjustment, it often has a long [...]
New Concept Tools was started by Harry Prescott in 1978 in a small workshop located in the rural town of South Barre, Massachusetts. Today, New Concept Tools are being designed and built by people with decades of experience in various utility fields.
