First Serious Project - Clearing 1.5 Acres

[Jim57]

<font color="blue"> Jim, if you have any more pictures I would be interested, I have never seen anything like that before!
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I will try to explain the two trucks. The beige or tan truck of course is the drilling outfit. The Red Truck is the water truck that carries and pumps water to the beige/Tan truck.

The Beige truck has a huge diesel engine that runs the drilling machine and the air compressor they use to keep the water and drill shavings from the drilled hole.

After they hit rock they put PVC pipe in the hole seating it into the rock several feet. Then they change bits that fit into the PVC and also is a Rock bit. They continue to drill but put an extention on the disgharge of the truck. It seals with the PVC they inserted into the hole down into the rock. You can see the water and debris come out with water pumped in to cool bit. When the water flow increases more than what they are putting in to cool bit... they know they have hit water.

I will add some of the discharge pics and where the cut off the PVC after seating it.

 

[Jim57]

By the way... the beige drilling truck is leveled so as to drill straight down. It has hydraulic levelers.

 

[Jim57]

This is the drilling rig being raised after leveling the truck.

 

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Getting ready to drill.

 

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The first dirt to show as they start drilling.

 

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On the first 75 to 80 feet the water and dirt was washed straight out of the hole. They too shovels and made the dike around to direct the water and debris down hill preventing a mess right under where they had to work.

 

[Jim57]

This picture shows the operation from the downhill side of the drilling for the first 80 feet.

 

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Really making a muddy mess downhill toward garden.

 

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Gluing the sections of PVC pipe together as it goes in.

 

[Jim57]

After setting the pipe into the rock with downward pressure with the weight drilling truck. Then the pipe is cut with a chainsaw to length. They put a special piece that fits the pipe very snugly. It allows the machine to seal to the pipe and force the water and debris through another part of the truck. They add a PVC pipe to discharge so they can see exactly what is coming up from the drilling.