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Eight Years and Counting: Celebrating Chris Harlow
Some milestones deserve more than a quick mention. This is one of them. Chris Harlow joined Wood Equipment Company in 2018, and eight years later he is still one of the people this team counts on most. Customers know him. Coworkers lean on him. And the work he puts in every day is a big…
15 Years: Celebrating Jason Wise
Fifteen years is a long time anywhere. In this business, it is something special. Jason Wise joined Wood Equipment Company in 2011, and he has been a cornerstone of our team ever since. That is half a career, spent right here. A Lot Has Changed Since 2011 When Jason started, the equipment was different, the…
Use It Before You Lose It: Putting Your Remaining Capital Budget to Work Before December 31
Every year around this time, the same conversation happens in plant offices and facility departments across the country. There is money left in the capital budget. The calendar says it has to be committed by December 31. And the project list that looked so clear back in January is now buried under a year of…
Now Offering Chromalox Heat Tracing: Freeze Protection for Pipes, Tanks, and Valves
Insulation slows heat loss. It doesn’t stop it. When temperatures drop, exposed piping, tanks, and instrument lines can freeze even when they’re wrapped. A frozen line means downtime, damaged equipment, and a repair bill nobody planned for. That’s why Wood Equipment Company is now partnering with Chromalox, one of the most established names in industrial…
Repair or Replace? What Our Ashland Shop Can Do With Your Worn Pump
The pump in the first photo came into our shop looking like it had been pulled off the bottom of a river. Heavy rust on the upper casing, flaking paint, scale caked around the bearing housing, and decades of hard service written all over it. The pump in the second photo is the same unit…
Fall Pump Winterization Checklist: Get Your Equipment Ready Before the First Freeze
Every fall we get the same calls. A pump that ran fine all summer cracks a casing after the first hard freeze. A transfer line ices up overnight and a process sits idle for a day. A lift station that nobody checked in October becomes an emergency in January. Almost all of it is preventable.…
Hot Oil Pumps: What Changes When the Fluid Runs at 600 Degrees
A hot oil pump has one of the hardest jobs in the plant. It moves thermal fluid at 400, 500, or 600°F, around the clock, and everything downstream is waiting on it. The press, the reactor, the fryer, the asphalt tank. When that pump stops, the heat stops moving and so does production. Industrial processes…
Lift Stations Keep Your Collection System Moving. Is Yours Ready for What’s Next?
Wood Equipment Company | Ashland, Virginia Nobody in town thinks about the lift station until it fails. Then everybody does. Lift stations are the heartbeat of a municipal wastewater collection system. Gravity can only carry sewage so far before the terrain says no, and that’s where a lift station takes over, pumping flow up and…
Idle Pumps Can Still Fail: How to Protect Pumps in Storage and Standby
A pump that is not running is not resting. It is slowly getting worse. Some of the most frustrating calls we get start the same way. “We just installed the spare and it won’t turn over.” Or, “The standby pump kicked on during the storm and seized in ten minutes.” The pump looked fine on…
WaterJAM 2026: Good to Be Back Among Our People
There is a version of this industry that lives on spec sheets and duty points. And then there is the version that actually runs it, which is a room full of people who know each other’s names, remember what plant you work at, and ask how last year’s project actually turned out. WaterJAM is that…