Radar Site Installation

PROJECT DETAILS

Project Name:	Toolik Lake Radar Site
Installation Criteria:	400 ea. Drilled and Cased Micropile
Project Lead:	Tom DePeter
Equipment:	Cat 320 and APE HD50 Top Drive
Installation Depths:	10′ to 25′
Jobsite Restrictions:	Remote work area, Environmental concerns with large footprint equipment
Geotechnical Concerns:	Dense Continuous Rock, Frozen Clays and Tundra
Pileworks supplied:	Built custom drill tooling used in conjunction with APE HD top drive to drill through solid rock and frozen soils
Time to install single unit:	10 Minutes to drill with Down-the-hole Hammer, each location
Pileworks job influence:	Designed Drilling system to run air tools that can be run on smaller excavators


Description:	With -40 below and miles from the nearest town not being a big enough challenge already, Onyx undertook this project on with a stride that carried them all the way to project completion 3 weeks ahead of schedule. With no ice roads to work from,this configuration insured that minimal environmental damages would occur while running on top of the sensitive tundra.