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Home » Multimedia » Image Galleries » Drillers @Work: Fall 2016

Drillers @Work: Fall 2016

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Drilling contractors find themselves in the field far more often than most. Rig-up, rig-down, there are always memorable views worth sharing. Our Drillers @Work gallery for Fall 2016 photos submitted by readers from September – November of 2016.

boring for a damaged ferry landing
Volta rig
Toy Drilling crew at sunset
water-well-installation-Kennewick-Washington
Comacchio-GEO-305-inside-Georgetown-city-hall
Rock anchor installation on tunnel portal
Toy Drilling Contractor's 4 generations
pullbacks-across-Hoquiam-River
Ditch-Witch-horizontal-rigs
sonic-rig-in-guyana-jungle
geothermal-installation-at-Langara-Community-College
two-rigs-for-new-Maryland-well
Black-Eagle-Mine
hem560
Atlas Copco T-45 SmartRoc
Atlas Copco D7 Remote
Telescopic Piling Extension
school-water-well-nigeria
irrigation-well-texas
Geoprobe-7822
rig_on_hillside
rig_on_hill
electrical-duct-banks-philadelphia-airport
water-well-volunteer-project-Ethiopia
bridge-abutment-caissons
Soilmec-SR-40
pile-shafts-project
temporary-shoring-wall
monitoring-well-site-Oklahoma
hydrocarbon-reservoir-terminal-site
wassia-project
Geoprobe lifted by crane
drilling-for-light-pole
fixing-settlement-issues
drilling rig on rock outcropping
municipal well drilling in Ravenna MI
enviromental-site-Puerto-Rico
Honduras-water-well
replacement-ag-well
guiding casing into borehole
boring for a damaged ferry landing

A landing craft brought a Hardiman Co. & Associates crew to this small island in Greenwich, Conn., after Hurricane Sandy to conduct boring for a damaged ferry landing.

Source: Tom Hardimann / Hardiman Co. & Associates

Volta rig

Drillers with Supra Indodrill use a 200-horsepower Volta rig to drill a 12-inch borehole for a water well in East Java, Indonesia.

Source: Supra Indodrill

Toy Drilling crew at sunset

The sun sets over a crew from Toy Drilling Contractor as they drill a hill in western Pennsylvania.

Source: Brody Toy / Toy Drilling Contractor

water well installation in Kennewick Washington

Drillers with Statewide Well Drilling install a 500-foot water well for a new home in Kennewick, Wash.

Source: Tyler Haney / Statewide Well Drilling

Comacchio GEO 305 inside Georgetown city hall

A crew with International Construction Equipment managed to squeeze a Comacchio GEO 305 inside the Georgetown, S.C., city hall for a drilling job.

Source: Kevin Thomas / International Construction Equipment Inc.

Rock anchor installation on tunnel portal

A crew with Walsh installs rock anchors on a tunnel portal in Louisville, Ky.

Source: William Wulf / Walsh

Toy Drilling Contractor's 4 generations

Toy Drilling Contractor has a long history. Here, Richard Toy, Gary Toy holding Brody Richard, and Brody Toy pose in front of the rig bought brand new years ago by Brody Toy’s grandfather and great-grandfather.

Source: Brody Toy / Toy Drilling Contractor

pullbacks across Hoquiam River

A crew with Downing Diversified LLC using a Ditch Witch JT60 AT did two separate pullbacks of 12-inch PVS across the Hoquiam River in Washington State for a sewer line replacement. The reamer managed the job, and even brought up old mooring cable as a souvenir for the drillers.

Source: Jimmy Downing / Downing Diversified LLC

Ditch Witch horizontal drilling rigs

Crews with Downing Diversified LLC cross paths with two Ditch Witch 3020AT horizontal rigs at the Portland International Airport RACS project.

Source: Jimmy Downing / Downing Diversified LLC

sonic rig in guyana jungle

A crew with First Bauxite in Guyana tackles the jungle with a track-mounted Sonic Drill Corp. rig.

Source: Nancy Argyle / Sonic Drill Corp.

geothermal installation at Langara Community College

A Sonic Drill Corp. rig tackles tough, mixed soil conditions for a new geothermal installation at Langara Community College in the Vancouver area of British Columbia, Canada. It got called out on this project after another rig technology failed to get the job done.

Source: Nancy Argyle / Sonic Drill Corp.

two rigs for new Maryland well

Drilling crews brought out two rigs for this job in southern Maryland, a big rig to overdrill and abandon an old well and a smaller rig to install a monitoring well.

Source: John Gilman / A.C. Shultes of Maryland Inc.

Black Eagle Mine

A crew with C4 Grouting finishes up holes at Black Eagle Mine in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. Crews say the machine pictured can go anywhere it needs to go, and go up to 1,200 feet down when it gets there.

Source: Darrell Clouthier / C4 Grouting

installing rock bolts in a cliff

Drillers in North Carolina use a TEI HEM560 drill mounted on an extended reach excavator to install rock bolts in a cliff, which had become unstable and threatened the retail area below it.

Source: Joe Patterson / TEI Rock Drills

Atlas Copco T-45 SmartRoc

Atlas Copco T-45 SmartRoc.

Source: David Bradley / Maine Drilling & Blasting

Atlas Copco D7 Remote

Winch work Torrington CT . Atlas Copco D7 Remote

Source: David Bradley / Maine Drilling & Blasting

Telescopic Piling Extension

The Telescopic Piling Extension (TPE) option for Digga drilling and anchor drives allows for skid steer mounted drilling drives to reach up or out in difficult applications with low overhead or bad ground conditions. Get the work done with your existing equipment!

Source: Doug Amerman / Digga North America

school water well in nigeria

Drillers with AU Drilling & Technical Services Ltd. Install a water well for a school in Kaduna, Nigeria.

Source: Mohammed Mairga / AU Drilling & Technical Services Ltd.

irrigation well in texas

Faulks Well Service drills a replacement irrigation well using reverse circulation for a Quail, Texas, customer.

Source: Carson Faulks / Faulks Well Service

Geoprobe 7822

Professional Testing Service performs geotechnical exploration for a future church in a heavily wooded area in northwest Milwaukee. The crews did 38 bores, 265 lineal feet using their Geoprobe 7822.

Source: Brian Szydzik / Professional Testing Service

drilling on mountainside

Drilling on a mountainside? Another day in the life of Montana’s Bridger Drilling.

Source: Sue Sampson / Bridger Drilling Inc.

drilling on mountainside

A driller with Bridger Drilling goes right up to the edge of a drop off to provide water to a customer in Gallatin Valley, Mont.

Source: Sue Sampson / Bridger Drilling Inc.

installing electrical duct banks at Philadelphia International Airport

An AmeriDrill crew installs electrical duct banks under taxiways and runways at Philadelphia International Airport.

Source: Dennis Moore / AmeriDrill

water well volunteer project in Ethiopia

Local volunteers pitch in to move casing on a Healing Hands International water well project in southern Ethiopia.

Source: Curtis King / Healing Hands International

bridge abutment caissons

Calex Engineering Co. crews install bridge abutment caissons at the Horsethief Creek Bridge in Hesperia, Calif.

Source: Cory Williams / Calex Engineering Co.

Soilmec SR-40

Calex Engineering Co. installs soldier pile shafts for a temporary shoring wall using a Soilmec SR 40 at the BLVD 6200 project in Hollywood, Calif.

Source: Cory Williams / Calex Engineering Co.

pile shafts project

An overhead view of a Calex Engineering Co. soldier pile shafts project for a temporary shoring wall at the BLVD 6200 project in Hollywood, Calif.

Source: Cory Williams / Calex Engineering Co.

temporary shoring wall

Calex Engineering Co. drills soldier pile shafts for a temporary shoring wall at the BLVD 6200 project in Hollywood, Calif.

Source: Cory Williams / Calex Engineering Co.

monitoring well site in Oklahoma

Drillers with Two Eight Drilling installed 105 feet of 6 5/8 inch casing in this 10-inch hole for a monitoring well in Barnsdall, Okla.

Source: Ace McCarthy / Two Eight Drilling

hydrocarbon reservoir terminal site

A DMG Drilling crew installs shallow piezometers at a hydrocarbon reservoir terminal site in Mollendo, Peru.

Source: Victor Martinez / DMG Drilling

wassia project

Drillers with Water Well Drilling Consulting Co. installed 70 water wells to 700 meters each in 6 months as part of the Wassia Project in Wassia, Saudi Arabia.

Source: Mondher Abbes / WDC Consulting USA

Geoprobe lifted by crane

Vortex Drilling had to lift one of their Geoprobe 7822DTs into some pretty tight spots to install environmental wells at a refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Source: Donny May / Vortex Drilling

drilling for light pole

O’Keefe Drilling goes to work on a light pole job with their LoDrill in front of the Natural Resources Building at Montana Tech in Butte, Mont.

Source: Jaclyn Giop / O’ Keefe Drilling

fixing settlement issues

American Drilling worked itself into this tight spot inside a medical building with settlement issues. They did two bores to 20 feet using just half the legs of their Acker tripod. They used a kiddie pool for a mud tub, and idea they credited to Jim Mann, a 50-year veteran of the industry.

Source: Sean Ryan / American Drilling Inc.

drilling rig on rock outcropping

A rig with Yankee Drilling company tries to keep its balance on a rock outcropping.

Source: David Lesperance / Yankee Drilling Co.

municipal well drilling in Ravenna MI

Raymer Co. Inc. drills a new 12-inch municipal well for the village of Ravenna, Mich.

Source: Gerry Neubecker / Raymer Co. Inc.

enviromental site Puerto Rico

A crew with Parratt-Wolff Inc. drills with hollow stem augers and air rotary on an environmental site in Vieques, Puerto Rico.

Source: Todd Muench / Parratt-Wolff Inc.

Honduras water well

Hard to access sites aren’t an issue for this rig working a water well jobsite in Choluteca, Honduras. Drillers with MAPA drilled to 350 feet with using a down-the-hole hammer.

Source: Hector Ordonez / MAPA

replacement ag well

Drillers with J. Olinger Drilling LLC install a replacement ag well at a jobsite in Closter, N.J.

Source: John Olinger / J. Olinger Drilling LLC

guiding casing into borehole

A Supra Indodrill drilling crew guides a 10-inch casing into the borehole for a 120-meter water well in Indonesia.

Source: Supra Indodrill

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