Mudtight Gold Towing Heads
The Mudtight Gold Towing Head is a device that allows a towing eye to be attached to a length of polyethylene pipe in a similar way to a Standard Towing Head. However, a Mudtight Gold Towing Head also seals the pipe to stop dirt getting in. This is particularly important for water pipes, gas pipes and fibre optic ducts.
The Mudtight Gold Towing Head is ideal for use with trenchless technology techniques such as Directional Drilling, Impact Moling and Pipe Bursting where the pipe may be installed through ground water or drilling mud. Once the pipe has been pulled through the bore the Mudtight Gold Towing Head is easily removed and the pipe left clean inside. This saves the time and expense of cleaning out the pipe and possibly also saves having to re-chlorinate water pipes.
The unique feature of this product is it's patented three part reversible cartridge. This allows one towing head to seal both SDR11 wall thickness pipe and also SDR17.6 wall thickness pipe. This is accomplished simply by reversing the sealing cartridge (see animation on the main Mudtight Gold Page). On IPS (iron pipe size) Mudtight Golds a bigger range of wall thicknesses can be sealed by using O rings of larger cross section.