{"id":6704,"date":"2015-01-01T11:44:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T01:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ppmmagazine.com.au\/?p=6704"},"modified":"2022-11-05T11:55:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T01:55:39","slug":"reduce-risk-and-improve-inspections-with-the-mfd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/termite-and-pest-inspections\/reduce-risk-and-improve-inspections-with-the-mfd\/","title":{"rendered":"REDUCE RISK AND IMPROVE INSPECTIONS WITH THE MFD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New from Trade Management Systems, the Multi Facet Donger is a valuable tool when conducting termite inspections.<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"hr-thick\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 18\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>\u201cRunning a busy pest management company on the Gold Coast whose core business is termite detection and management is due in no small part to our hard earned reputation,\u201d said <strong>Mick Humberstone<\/strong>, company director at Surekil Pest Control. \u201cI am continuously looking for ways to improve our inspections and to minimise the risk of missing termite damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the course of the last 14\u00a0years I have used all of the newest innovations and tools available for termite detection, from borescopes, moisture meters, Termatrac, thermal imaging cameras and a termite sniffing dog. Yet the most used tool in the industry remains the termite donger or tapper!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A simple tool for sounding or tapping timbers can be flawed by the limited amount of contact that it provides with the timber surface. This significantly increases the risk of missing termite damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving been an aircraft engineer for 25 years, and always looking \u2018outside the box\u2019 I designed a new \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/trademanagementsystems.com.au\/\">Multi Facet Donger\u2019 (MFD)<\/a> to address the contact problem and substantially reduce the risk of missing damage,\u201d said Mr Humberstone. This has been designed and developed through his other company, Trade Management Systems.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 18\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_6706\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6706\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6706\" src=\"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MFD-comparison-copy-low-res-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MFD-comparison-copy-low-res-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MFD-comparison-copy-low-res-267x200.jpeg 267w, https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MFD-comparison-copy-low-res-253x190.jpeg 253w, https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MFD-comparison-copy-low-res-140x105.jpeg 140w, https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MFD-comparison-copy-low-res.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reduce your risk of missing termite damage with the Multi Facet Donger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe industry response to the MFD has been incredibly positive with Rapid Training and MPL Training both using the MFD on their training courses, and Globe, Garrards and Agserv stocking it in their stores.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c2015 will see the launch of the newest model, the Telescopic MFD (TMFD) which, as the name suggests, will be\u00a0a collapsible, lightweight version of the MFD with the new timber probe feature included under a removable head. The TMFD has been specifically designed for roof void inspections and to be easily carried on an equipment belt.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 18\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>A Multi Facet Donger is an essential toolkit addition for all timber inspection professionals, for further information visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/trademanagementsystems.com.au\/\">Trade Management Systems<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New from Trade Management Systems, the Multi Facet Donger is a valuable tool when conducting termite inspections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":6707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"New from Trade Management Systems, the Multi Facet Donger is a valuable tool when conducting termite inspections.","_seopress_robots_index":"yes","_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[371],"tags":[],"company":[135],"pest":[],"pesticide":[],"product-service":[189],"class_list":["post-6704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-termite-and-pest-inspections","company-other","product-service-equipment","wpbf-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6704"},{"taxonomy":"company","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/company?post=6704"},{"taxonomy":"pest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pest?post=6704"},{"taxonomy":"pesticide","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pesticide?post=6704"},{"taxonomy":"product-service","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product-service?post=6704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}