Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Types Of Tools For Water Well Drilling

By Daphne Bowen


In drilling boreholes, very powerful equipment is required. This shortens the duration taken to complete the work and also achieves a profound depth. What one should strive for is using the least expensive means but get quality services too. Tools for water well drilling should be utilized with consideration of the materials to be drilled and the desired well characteristics.

The options are not that many but still the geology of the site has to be taken into account. Many of these tools have to be machine operated as opposed to manual operation. Nowadays, the available machines are advanced such that the drilling job is done very fast and the depths reached are commendable too. Machines used in boring are often times referred to as just rigs.

Jetting uses a pipe to force water to flow down a drill pump and come out through a narrow spout. This water jet leads to loosening of the sediments. As the water flows back, it takes with it cuttings to the pit used for settling. The water is then returned back to the pipe. The pipe used for drilling is hanged down from a trivet and rotated using hands so as to keep the hole straight.

A cable tool is a mechanical version of the manual type of a driller. The drill and its accompanying parts are termed as tools and they usually are elevated then brought down to rest on a cable made from steel. The cuttings are eliminated by a bailer. A certain water depth has to be maintained inside the well so that the cuttings remain suspended.

The machines range from the simple powered winches suspended from a tripod to the technical pulley systems and large mast drums. The trailer or truck bed is used to mount the cable rigs using hydraulic motors in lowering and raising of mast and rotation of cables.

In making a mud rotary, you need to assemble together considerable lengths of drill pipe, cutting bit, sturdy mast and motor for use in lifting and lowering the pipes. A mixture of boring materials and clay in water referred to as drilling mud is made when a refined finish is desired.

The mud rotary drilling rigs a quite a number. They are categorized into two; table drive and top head drive. The first one involves turning of the pipe used in drilling at the rig base through a rotating motion while in the second one the pipe turning is facilitated by hydraulic motor positioned at the pipe end.

Both of these categories are attached to a raising mechanism which functions to lift and lower the pipes along the length of the mast. Swivels in both of them give a chance for the mud drilled to be taken out while the process of boring still goes on. This saves considerably on time and energy for both the client and the drilling company, the depth achieved is commendable and the work is done within a short period.




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