I've seen this being done in every street of my neighborhood to install new natural gas lines. Our street is curved in a long crescent and the operator was saying they can control the direction of the drill bit to match the contour of the curbline. What exactly controls the direction?
well,...…... I operated one of these machines for a couple of years and can tell you that the machine has an angled 30 degree carbide flat tip or bill on end of pipe-line of the cutting head, which will turn on a wide radius when the machine hydraulically pushes the pipe-line through the ground with several thousand psi of forward thrust, along with several hundred pounds of water shooting out the end of the cutting head, usually a two person job, the operator is at the full mercy of a locator receiver box that you will see being waved over the ground by a second person, every 10 ft., which is the length of a pipe segment, which then, while pipe-line is stopped, the machine screws on another 10 ft segment of pipe, and while that's going on, you take the locator box over the ground kinda of like a metal detector, and by way of sonar, the locator box will ping or pick up a battery operated signal coming from inside of the cutting head assembly and will give you a digital read-out of the rotated clock position of the cutting head and the degrees of up or down angle the head. and where the end of the pipe line is at. At that point if you are going in the correct direction, the machine operator can just rotate the pipe-line clockwise at varying rpm's, depending on soil conditions and drill with forward thrust and the cutting head should drill in the direction you already were going, if you need to adjust the direction or depth or both, then the direction adjustment is all done while pipe-line is stopped, while watching the locator box after it has pinged over top of the head, you then slowly rotate the head clockwise to whatever the clock position you need to go, (6 o,clock goes deeper 12 o'clock goes up , 3 goes right etc., etc.,) then push, don't rotate just push the pipe-line and stop, then check position every 2 feet then adjust rotation and push and all kinds of factors are involved at this point, that I won't explain here. But hope that gives insight, more to it than it appears....
realy depends on the company. some companies have vac trucks, excavators etc. to assist in the project. other companies dont invest in allot of tooling and equipment and can make the job allot harder. Go for it and if the work is too hard, quit and work for a different HDD outfit
Where are u guys located? are u servicing residential also? I need my panel to be upgrade but would require conduit upgrade,. My utility company said we need lateral boring up to utility box
Wait, how does it turn to go sideways once it's underground? It seems like you'd still end up going down at an angle, unless you dug a huge hole to put the drill machine in (which admittedly would probably still be easier than a whole trench.
Its like a clock the drill head has a "sonde" that sends the signal to the locator example if you tell the operator to put the drill head on 3 and push 1 ft the drill will go to the right. 12 it will go up, 9 left, 6 down you can drill 500ft-1000ft without making alot of pits one shot if theres no utility's to be exposed hope you understand me lol
The drill head has a slope on one side. If you look at the picture before it enters the ground you can see it. If the drill rod is pushed in while it is not turning it will "turn" toward the target using the slope of the drill head to guide it in that direction. The rods are more flexible than one would think. Typically each rod can safely bend 1 ft over its 10ft length, so for each 10ft of travel of the drill head the direction can be changed in any direction by 1ft.
There are flaggers closing one lane of traffic. If you watch the video, you can see traffic is never traveling in both directions at the same time. When the locator was in the furthest lane, flaggers closed that lane. Once he got to the closest lane, flaggers closed that lane.
Been doing,for over 8, years very fun .
The legend say that after that bore, the machine been a vermeer, broke down and still at the shop getting repaired. Lol
I've seen this being done in every street of my neighborhood to install new natural gas lines. Our street is curved in a long crescent and the operator was saying they can control the direction of the drill bit to match the contour of the curbline. What exactly controls the direction?
well,...…... I operated one of these machines for a couple of years and can tell you that the machine has an angled 30 degree carbide flat tip or bill on end of pipe-line of the cutting head, which will turn on a wide radius when the machine hydraulically pushes the pipe-line through the ground with several thousand psi of forward thrust, along with several hundred pounds of water shooting out the end of the cutting head, usually a two person job, the operator is at the full mercy of a locator receiver box that you will see being waved over the ground by a second person, every 10 ft., which is the length of a pipe segment, which then, while pipe-line is stopped, the machine screws on another 10 ft segment of pipe, and while that's going on, you take the locator box over the ground kinda of like a metal detector, and by way of sonar, the locator box will ping or pick up a battery operated signal coming from inside of the cutting head assembly and will give you a digital read-out of the rotated clock position of the cutting head and the degrees of up or down angle the head. and where the end of the pipe line is at. At that point if you are going in the correct direction, the machine operator can just rotate the pipe-line clockwise at varying rpm's, depending on soil conditions and drill with forward thrust and the cutting head should drill in the direction you already were going, if you need to adjust the direction or depth or both, then the direction adjustment is all done while pipe-line is stopped, while watching the locator box after it has pinged over top of the head, you then slowly rotate the head clockwise to whatever the clock position you need to go, (6 o,clock goes deeper 12 o'clock goes up , 3 goes right etc., etc.,) then push, don't rotate just push the pipe-line and stop, then check position every 2 feet then adjust rotation and push and all kinds of factors are involved at this point, that I won't explain here.
But hope that gives insight, more to it than it appears....
@@johnstamper3974 that's a good explanation, I'm actually able to understand it now
@@johnstamper3974 thank you your explain is very helpful
@@johnstamper3974 thanks man
What type of steel are the rods made from? Spring steel? Shock steel? Stainless?
Came here because I work in a wire mill and we get orders for hdd stainless steel and copper wire often and wanted to know what it is
Great technology, awesome possibilities, but guys, please pay for music if you'r making advertisement.
yes... the music in these HDD animations are horrible!!!
What causes of HDD machine when rotation hard to rotate or slow rotation
I like this machine
Is this better than a grundomat?
Does anyone know how hard is a labor position on this job-site? There hiring in my area and seems interesting ?
Joe A digging all day and backfilling all day, peeping product to pull. its simple but it could be hard on some one who never used a shovel all day.
realy depends on the company. some companies have vac trucks, excavators etc. to assist in the project. other companies dont invest in allot of tooling and equipment and can make the job allot harder. Go for it and if the work is too hard, quit and work for a different HDD outfit
Magnífico, from BRASIL.
I work on a three man crew and I want to locate is there a sight where I can study to locate
Look up USIC
its a locator company all over the u.s.
👍👍👍From Malaysia
Where are u guys located? are u servicing residential also? I need my panel to be upgrade but would require conduit upgrade,. My utility company said we need lateral boring up to utility box
This is horizontal bud
@@coterutledge7503 shut up BUD
@@Real.384 aww aren’t you sad, I’m sorry buddy maybe we can hug it out
Wait, how does it turn to go sideways once it's underground? It seems like you'd still end up going down at an angle, unless you dug a huge hole to put the drill machine in (which admittedly would probably still be easier than a whole trench.
Its like a clock the drill head has a "sonde" that sends the signal to the locator example if you tell the operator to put the drill head on 3 and push 1 ft the drill will go to the right. 12 it will go up, 9 left, 6 down you can drill 500ft-1000ft without making alot of pits one shot if theres no utility's to be exposed hope you understand me lol
The drill head has a slope on one side. If you look at the picture before it enters the ground you can see it. If the drill rod is pushed in while it is not turning it will "turn" toward the target using the slope of the drill head to guide it in that direction. The rods are more flexible than one would think. Typically each rod can safely bend 1 ft over its 10ft length, so for each 10ft of travel of the drill head the direction can be changed in any direction by 1ft.
cool drilling
How to repair hard rotation?
Thanks
o nice .from india
A+!😀💯👍👍👍
AudioJungle? ;)
Nice
Do you need a driller im Filipino..
Still a pile of dirt on the lawn!
left over from pipe in the ground
lol! I busted up laughing! great comment!
SUPER
1Km amount please
Gunnar Glen
Nice maroc
Nicolas Landing
children's work 😁😏
Gjb
Seems kinda Boring…. 🕺🏼
The biggest drawback of this machine, wheels of this machine damages the road while moving or working on the road.
SAM Not if you get rubber tracks.
还招人吗？？我想去应聘，我是一名导向。
U have to speak English
Locater guy in the middle of an open road with no traffic control......Safety Fail !
That is dangerous very very dangerous
carbonking53 Right, 2 Rwa signs, 2 Flagger symbols, and 1 flagger is all you need.
There are flaggers closing one lane of traffic. If you watch the video, you can see traffic is never traveling in both directions at the same time. When the locator was in the furthest lane, flaggers closed that lane. Once he got to the closest lane, flaggers closed that lane.
Bakar h
ok first of all you are doing it wrong..
then show us how to do it properly with your videos
@@marcusc3463 thats proprietary but if you need help , we can work something out
What are they actually doing wrong? Other than possibly some safety practices. They got the pipe across the road.
They did nothing wrong here. I’m an operator myself 👍🏾