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Like Father, Like Son: A Fall Day With the Crawfords
Some of the best moments at Wood Equipment Company happen nowhere near Wood Equipment Company. This fall, the father and son Crawfords traded the workweek for a day of long range shooting in the mountains. A Hobby That Rewards Patience Long range shooting is a slow game. You read the conditions, make a small adjustment,…
Read MoreUse 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…
Read MoreNow 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…
Read MoreRepair 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…
Read MoreHot 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…
Read MoreLift 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…
Read MoreIdle 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…
Read MoreWaterJAM 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…
Read MoreNETZSCH Progressive Cavity Pumps: Precision for the Toughest Media
Some pumps are built for water. Progressive cavity pumps are built for everything water pumps cannot handle. Thick, abrasive, shear sensitive, high viscosity, full of solids. That is the everyday reality for a lot of the media moving through wastewater plants, food and beverage lines, and industrial processes across the country. A centrifugal pump asked…
Read MoreTheory in the Morning, Teardown After Lunch: Inside WEC Hands On Pump Training
There is a moment in every good training session when the room goes quiet. Usually it happens about ten minutes after the pumps come apart. That moment is what we build our training around at Wood Equipment Company. We recently hosted a session at our Ashland, Virginia headquarters using the format we have trusted for…
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