At trade shows and in contractors’ offices, veterans talk a lot about the skills gap and the greying of the industry. Demo events, like one The Driller attended recently in Flint, Mich., can help.
When stuck between a rock and a hard place, I was determined to come up with a solution to penetrate very coarse alluvial gravels, where traditional split spoon and Shelby-tube sampling methods could not.
Direct push has always produced good samples. But at Horizon Construction and Exploration LLC in Wisconsin, they've found that larger-diameter samples can make things on the jobsite even more interesting.
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