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Excavator fitted with an auger drive drilling on a civil site

Auger drilling and piling support

Excavator-mounted drilling, driving and casing packages matched to the ground conditions, pile design and available access.

Common jobs

  • Bored piers and piles
  • Screw piling and anchoring
  • Sheet piling and casing installation
  • Core barrelling in hard ground

Site considerations

  • Live corridors
  • Tight access
  • Soft or saturated ground
  • Overhead services

Common questions

What do you need to assess a drilling package?

The ground report, bore or pile design, required depth and diameter, service locations and access details. These determine the tooling and carrier compatibility checks.

What if the ground will not hold an open bore?

Casing may be required. At Kananook Stabling Yard, steel casings were installed ahead of drilling in unstable ground. The method for your job needs to suit the ground report and pile design.

Can the package work with restricted access or overhead services?

Send the access dimensions, available headroom and service restrictions. The working envelope must be checked against the carrier and tooling before a package is specified.

Proven on site

Specialist drilling support for Kananook Stabling Yard — project photograph from the original case study

Kananook Stabling Yard

Specialist drilling support

A 25t Sumitomo with an auger drive and excavator-mounted vibrator installed steel casings ahead of drilling in unstable ground, inside a live rail corridor.

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