KEEP YOUR CREW SAFE WITH TEXAS FIRST TRENCH SAFETY

Texas First Trench Safety steel boxes aid and assist on uniquely complex projects. We offer the highest level of workplace protection and have a full line readily available for valued customers like you. With one of the newest fleets in the state, these models of shields range in heights up to 10’ and lengths up to 24’, with several variations to fit your needs and scope of work. We also hold one of the widest ranges of box spreader material in the industry.

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Our steel-framed, high-grade aluminum trench shields are flexible and lightweight, creating an innovative alternative to steel trench boxes. Comprised of panels, vertical rails, corners, and spreaders, Texas First has this modular design readily available in multiple sizes and configurations that can be adjusted to custom-fit various trench dimensions.

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Texas First Trench Safety Slide Rail Shoring by TWF is a modular component system that utilizes a “dig-and-push” method that greatly reduces the risk of cave-ins and trench collapses associated with open trench excavations. One benefit is that this increases safety for adjacent structures and for your personnel. With TWF’s variety of modular components, the system can be utilized in a wide range of applications to include unique designs of two-, three-, or four-sided pits with clear open span.

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Let Texas First handle your linear trench needs with our lightweight, cost-effective, and efficient vertical hydraulic trench jacks. Ideal for spot bracing repairs and/or inspections, speed shores are an industry-leading solution to protect against trench cave-ins. Texas First has rail heights ranging from 1.5’ to 20’ and covers widths from 17” to 144”.

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Specially manufactured to be used as temporary covers for trenches or holes in the roadway, Texas First steel road plates allow your construction team to easily reopen the road to regular traffic. At 1” thick, our heavy-duty road plates are equipped with single-point center lifting capabilities for improved balance and control. They are a minimum ASTM-A-36 grade steel with sizes ranging from as small as 5’x8’ up to 8’x20’ with various sizes in between.

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Texas First Trench Safety carries KD6/8 overlapping steel sheeting to fulfill the unique needs of each project. It provides an excellent alternative to go around those existing utilities, offers end protection, and comes in lengths from 12’ to 24’.

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At Texas First, we offer a broad range of manhole shields that are commonly used for manhole installations, point inspections, taps, repairs, or box installations. We carry both round corrugated and square with optional cutout doors and legs. Diameters consist of 8.5’ and 10’, with heights of 4’ and 8’.

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With our extensive modern fleet, we can serve you on your next underground utility project with the Texas First dynamic BAB system (Build-A-Box™). Designed for easy assembly and transport, these aluminum modular panels are lightweight, yet provide the depth rating you need to get the job done safely.

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This TWF system features high-quality, lightweight aluminum extrusions and easily adjustable clamping screws. The TWF Shoring Box Platform System with Fall Arrest Post has been specifically designed and engineered to provide access and egress to (or from) an excavation and can be used on standard aluminum or steel shoring panels with minimum thickness of 50mm and up to 200mm.

Also from TWF, the davit arm was designed so that it could be easily repositioned and helps minimize the frequency of repositioning. The system meets OSHA 1926 Subpart R, Protection Systems Criteria, (d) fall arrest systems. The PRO-3G Davit Shoring Kit is a fully functional fall protection device and acts as an operating retrieval winch.

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When you need OSHA-compliant, four-gas monitors for detecting oxygen, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and combustible gases, Texas First Trench Safety is your solution. We test and calibrate our gas monitors before every delivery to ensure safe confined space entry you can rely on.

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From a simple manhole in the middle of a busy street to industrial and municipal plant applications, Texas First has you covered. We carry a wide assortment of manufacturers of confined space retrieval systems, including DBI/Sala, and French Creek. Standard 7’ tripods with winches and self-retracting lifelines are in stock and ready for you.

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Durable, rugged, and inspected upon every rental, pipe plugs at Texas First are prepared for your next pipe pressure testing. We carry brands like Plug Technologies, Lansas, and Cherne for leak detection, blocking, flow thru, and mechanical/general plumbing. Come see us to stock up for your next plug project.

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Here at Texas First, we offer a variety of ventilating blowers for sale or rent, manufactured by Allegra and Hurco Technologies. Our rental and sale units come equipped with 110/220-volt electric motors, 12v electric motors, or gas engine-powered units. The axial fan, centrifugal fan, or propeller-driven air ends assist in ventilating a single manhole or large diameter pipe. Ventilators may also be used for line stringing and smoke testing.

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Texas First Trench Safety rents and sells a full line of hydro test pumps, from twin diaphragm pumps used for standard pressures and water volume testing to four diaphragm pumps for high-pressure and high-water volume testing. Pressurizing and testing water lines or sewer force mains are covered by “AWWA Standard C605, Installation of PVC Pressure Pipe” and “C600 Installation of Ductile-Iron Water Mains.” Honda and Briggs & Stratton gasoline engines are available.

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Proper use of these gauges helps ensure that flexible pipes have been properly bedded and backfilled, and not deflected. Pipe deflection gauges are utilized to test sewer pipes for out-of-roundness and Texas First offers single-size or multi-size kits with SDR 26 and SDR 35 specs.

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At TX First Trench Safety, we rent and sell a full line of manhole vacuum testers to include flat plate style and bladder style. This is used to test new, existing and rehabilitated manholes per “ASTM C1244”. By creating a vacuum in the manhole and then monitoring for vacuum loss, this will help identify infiltration and or ex-filtration problems should they occur which is less expensive and faster than water testing. Bladder style testers seal the inside diameter of the manhole cone whereas the flat plate style tester is designed to seal the manhole cone top surface. Our vacuum generators are available to convert a standard air compressor into a vacuum source.

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Prevent material loss on your jobsite with Texas First’s highest-quality bedding boxes, also known as stone boxes. With a capacity of 9 cubic yards, our steel-constructed bedding boxes are designed to hold bulk debris like excess road base, dirt, gravel, and sand with dual pull
bars for easy operation.

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Pipe pullers are used to “join” large diameter concrete and culvert pipe to reduce bell and joint damage. Texas First carries the JB Pipe Puller, manufactured by Basinger Manufacturing. The solid bars replacing the old style of typical cable wires eliminates the potential of fraying or snapping when stress is applied. Standard-duty units can pull pipe up to 10’ in diameter (28,000 lbs), with heavy-duty units pulling pipe up to 14’ in diameter (40,000 lbs).

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Texas First provides Kenco Corporation barrier lifts, which offer a safe, easy, and efficient method for the lifting and placing of concrete barrier walls. The Kenco lifts have exclusive elastomeric grips that provide superior gripping performance with their polyethylene complex. Capacities from 1,500 to 30,000 lbs include the Texas Low Profile Barrier Wall.

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The team at our local laser service center has over 20 certified years of experience with all makes and models, including parts. A rental unit can also be accommodated.

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Pipe lasers are predominantly used in the underground industry by contractors, General Contractors, and municipalities for the installation of storm drainage systems, sewer pipes, water line, lift stations, and manhole placements. Texas First Trench Safety offers brands like Topcon, Leica, and Spectra Precision by Trimble.

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Rotating Lasers are used to provide a desired slope or elevation. Multipurpose rotating lasers are designed for contractors like highway construction contractors who are concerned about the quality of their projects.

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Providing a high degree of control for leveling and monitoring applications, auto levels are ideal for jobsite elevation control and bringing in elevations from remote locations to the jobsite. They can also be used to monitor built-in-place structures and to measure small elevation changes over time.

Texas First tripods and grade rods can be rented or purchased, ranging from sturdy wooden and fiberglass tripods to economical aluminum models. Grade rods include sturdy, 25’ grade rods and 16’ aluminum grade rods.

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