Handy Attachments and Hardworking Excavators Make His Bucket List

Iowa pumper and installer Rick Miene has fun collecting a wide variety of earth-moving machines and finding new ways to make money with them.
Handy Attachments and Hardworking Excavators Make His Bucket List
The Miene Septic Service crew is shown with one of the company vacuum trucks, a Peterbilt 367 built out by Advance Pump & Equipment with 4,200-gallon aluminum tank and National Vacuum Equipment blower. From left to right are Joedy Hurtt, Dylan Jacobs, Anthony Schmitz, Rick Miene and Ray Heasty.

Growing up, Rick Miene always had a passion and a skill for operating equipment while working for Miene Septic Service, the company his father started in 1973 in Robins, Iowa. But in 1986, about the time he graduated from high school, Miene got to put that interest in high gear...

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