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    This document discusses challenges with drilling and sampling in sticky clayey silts and weathered carbonate rocks, as well as problematic residual soil profiles. It provides examples of difficult site access conditions and describes temporary solutions like cribbing and drilling platforms. A variety of drilling rig options are presented for different terrain, including truck-mounted, smaller tracked, and remote-controlled rigs.

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    This document discusses challenges with drilling and sampling in sticky clayey silts and weathered carbonate rocks, as well as problematic residual soil profiles. It provides examples of difficult site access conditions and describes temporary solutions like cribbing and drilling platforms. A variety of drilling rig options are presented for different terrain, including truck-mounted, smaller tracked, and remote-controlled rigs.

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    Rigs 23

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    Vijay Hatkar
    This document discusses challenges with drilling and sampling in sticky clayey silts and weathered carbonate rocks, as well as problematic residual soil profiles. It provides examples of difficult site access conditions and describes temporary solutions like cribbing and drilling platforms. A variety of drilling rig options are presented for different terrain, including truck-mounted, smaller tracked, and remote-controlled rigs.

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    Sticky Clayey Silt

    • One of the most challenging conditions to drill


    and sample in are sticky clayey silts, such as
    those pictured here; which stick to the auger
    flights
    • Loss of drilling fluid circulation is common in
    weathered carbonate rocks with open cavities.
    Clay-filled cavities can be also problematic
    where they contain rock ‘floaters’
    Residuum
    • Residual soils
    profiles can be
    highly undulatory
    and anisotropic, as
    portrayed here
    • Beware of deeply
    incised weathering
    zones along faults,
    shears, contacts,
    fold axes, or
    lithologic horizons
    • Typical weathering profiles in metamorphic and
    igneous rocks. Floating clasts are always problematic
    in developing reliable cross sections.
    DEALING WITH
    DIFFICULT SITE
    ACCESS CONDITIONS
    CRIBBING
    STANDS
    • In the old days,
    temporary wood or
    steel cribbing was
    erected to support a
    drilling platform, or
    ‘pad’, as shown here
    along Pacific Coast
    Highway in Pacific
    Palisades, California
    in 1940.
    Drilling
    Platforms
    • This shows a
    temporary drilling
    platform set up
    across the narrow
    gorge of the Little
    Colorado River, near
    Cameron, Arizona in
    the early 1940s
    • Such platforms are
    removed after drilling
    Truck-mounted
    drill rigs
    • Generally used on
    semi-level ground,
    if easy site access
    • Quick set-up
    • Rate of advance
    depends on height
    of mast & drill
    strings
    • Large normal force
    can be employed
    (see left below)
    • Some lighter 4WD equipped drill rigs can be
    employed on uneven ground and in hillside
    situations, using the hydraulic leveling rams.
    Tracked Rigs
    • A number of
    manufacturers
    offer tracked rigs
    of varying size
    • These can be
    extremely useful
    when working on
    sift or sloping
    ground
    Tracked Rigs

    Smaller tracked rigs can be


    operated remotely, using radio
    controls
    Largest production tracked rig is
    the CME 850, shown at left

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