Hillside homes and structures have presented a particular challenge for some of our customers. Accessing the ideal location on the steep slope with equipment that’s powerful enough to complete the task can be problematic enough, and, for contractors who prefer to own their equipment and complete this type of work in-house, affordable options are even more difficult to come by.
The navigational lock system for the dam, built during the New Deal civil construction boom of the later 1930s and early ’40s, accommodates 600-foot barges. Drillers are helping the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers open up that bottleneck to barges twice that size.
Safety is key in the drilling business, according to Benjamin Wright, safety director at Dig-It Inc., a telecommunications, power and utility contractor that specializes in horizontal directional drilling (HDD) and foundation drilling.