Equipment: 20×22 Vermeer® 36×50 Vermeer® STRAIGHTLINE® RockEye Air Hammer 4.0 with a 1150 cfm x 350 psi air compressor The Challenge: Metro Communications encountered an incredibly challenging bore, which threatened completion of an entire project. The task at hand was to cross the Vermillion River near Interstate 74 and Illinois State Highway 150. The tributary … Continued
Equipment: Ditch Witch® 3020 M1, STRAIGHTLINE® RockEye Air Hammer 4.0 coupled with an Ingersoll Rand 1150cfm x 350 psi compressor. The Challenge: W&W Utility Construction was rewarded a job with multiple bores In Pocola, Oklahoma. The hard shale that is predominant in this area made attempts with conventional rock tooling cost prohibitive. With over 600 … Continued
Equipment: CMS® 6015; StraightLine® AH5.0 RockEye air hammer system; Ingersoll Rand® 1150 cfm x 350 psi portable air compressor; Sharewell Wireline Guidance System OVERVIEW Making a living in directional drilling is never easy, however, once in a great while a bore so challenging arises that it causes every potential bidder to take pause. One by … Continued
Equipment: Vermeer® 24x40SII; StraightLine® 4″ Air Hammer System; Ingersoll Rand 1150 cfm x 350 psi portable air compressor The Challenge: Trawick encountered a bore in North Little Rock, Arkansas that was 310 foot in length. The ground condition presented a challenge due to the ever changing sub surface conditions, ranging from clay, gravel, limestone, shale, … Continued
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: StraightLine introduces steerable Air Hammer System that delivers unmatched performance in all types of hard ground conditions. Forget finesse, our HAMMER will pound its way through your toughest conditions at rates up to a 150’ per hour, at a very low cost per drilled foot with little or no cleanup required. That’s … Continued
Equipment: Ditch Witch®JT4020 – Sullair 900/350 compressor – StraightLine® 4″ Air Hammer System Ground Conditions: 30″ of clay cover, solid rock underneath. Drilling Fluid & Flow Rate: NO fluid, bore was without the use of fluids. Project: placing 3 ducts for expansion of a fiber network. Bore was just over 300′ in length. Obstacles: this … Continued
Equipment: JT2020 and a StraightLine® 4″ Air Hammer System. Ground conditions: approximately 12 to 18″ of top soil with solid limestone formation underneath. Project Scope and Requirements: this project consisted of 70 replacement water services. 1″ copper lines were placed under the roadway at a minimum cover of 4′. The bore that is featured was … Continued
Equipment: Vermeer® D36x50 and a StraightLine® 4″ Air Hammer System. Ground conditions: Solid formation with a combination of sandstone and caliche. Project Scope and Requirements: Installing a 10″ PVC pipe with certa-lock joints placed on-grade at a minus .020 to a minus .030 percent slope for gravity sewer mains. The bores varied in length from … Continued
Ground conditions: Solid limestone and iron rock Project: Placing conduits for power and control cables for a wind generator farm. Bores ranged from 150-200′; installing 6-inch conduit for main electric cables to deliver the generated power & a 2-inch conduit for the control cables at a spacing of 3-feet apart. The conduits were placed by … Continued