Keeping character, or restoring a pond

[wroughtn_harv]

The bore was a hundred and eighteen feet. They dug this little hole and then brought the head to it.

What made it interesting is the depth ran from zero down to forty two inches while making an arc and then back up to thirty six inches deep.

 

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The fella with the receiver in his hand is standing at the edge of the arc.

These things are amazing.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

We decided to pull back two pipes, one for the power and another for a spare for future considerations.

Here's the pipe going in down by the pond.

 

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Here it comes out by the power pole.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

The way a directional rig works is the flat side of the "foot" or bit acts like a rudder.

Normally the foot or bit is turning. But when they want to go deeper they put the flat side up and push. This machine was a sixteen-twenty. That means it has sixteen thousand pounds of push and twenty thousand pounds of pull.

They push, spin, push, spin and push until they get reach the desired depth or angle of bore. Then it's back to spinning again.

The receiver tells them exactly where it is for depth and location. A gauge on the boring unit tells the operator the orientation of the foot or bit.

This bore cost about seven fifty a foot plus the cost of pipe.

The advantages of the bore is there's no trench with it's destruction of the surface and tree roots etc. There will be no settling to worry about that you have over a trench line.

The boring unit is a hydraulic marvel.

The operator sits there and flips switches and operates levers while watching gauges.

While boring the machine hydraulically ads lengths of drill stem as required. When pulling it puts the stem back into the carriage.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

A lever lifts the drill stem in the rack. Another reaches out and grabs the finished length after the power head's released it.

 

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Then the power head goes back to grab the next length of stem, pull it back, release it, and then put it back into the rack.

This thing is so slick it makes WD40 look like glue.

 

[tlbuser]

<font color="blue"> The advantages of the bore is there's no trench with it's destruction of the surface and tree roots etc. There will be no settling to worry about that you have over a trench line.

The boring unit is a hydraulic marvel.
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The downside can be that anything in it's path gets bored. Like septic lines /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif We just finished a job repairing six lines (different lots) that the new power distribution lines were strung through. Good news for me, not so good for the others.

 

[Cliff_Johns]

This thread is a real education. I've said it before and I'll say it again -- thank you for taking the time to post not only the photos, but the play-by-play.

Cliff

 

[rox]

Harv,
Wanting to know if you have gotten sufficient rains so that the pond actually has water in it? Been waiting to see the finish photographs of the pond with water. How has the weather been?