When the average person thinks about geotechnical drilling or technical drilling services, Carrollwood residents might think that they can do it themselves, let alone do it with nothing more than a shovel or a piece of machinery. There is a reason why geotechnical drilling companies use various drilling rigs and drill bits to perform technical drilling jobs because of how quick and precise they are at gaining access to the ground. An individual using only a shovel is not ideal because the run the risk of compromising the job at hand, or by ruining the location all together.

Using a Shovel is Not Practical

Shovels are used for digging holes, so why are they not often used by geotechnical drilling professionals when they are performing geotechnical drilling services? Carrollwood residents might not know how deep or how precise technical drilling can be. Most professionals use drills to gain access to the sediment below them because it is much faster than doing it manually with a shovel, but also because it is more precise. A drill can accomplish in an hour or two what it would take someone a day to do with only a shovel. Shovels are still used in the industry for sure, but they are not used in major drilling projects.

Shovel Digging is not Precise Enough

Most people think that gaining access to the ground at a specific location is only about digging or drilling straight down, but this is not true. For example, in sinkhole investigations, Sinkhole activity may be shown in one particular area, but it may not be ideal to dig into the ground with a shovel to perform technical drilling services. Carrollwood residents should also be aware that sometimes technical drilling is performed in order to collect a core sample of a site, which is not ideal when using nothing more than shovels.

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When someone thinks about mud and all the complications that it can cause someone, they often think about how it gets things dirty and it can potentially make their clothes or their home stink. Although these are all viable reasons why dealing with mud can be complicated, this is not what drilling professionals are worried about when they use mud rotary drilling. Carrollwood residents may find it hard to imagine why drilling is mud creates so many problems for individuals in the drilling industry, but that is because they do not know about different drill bits and the importance of soil compositions.

Mud Can Clog Drilling Efforts

Mud is a unique soil condition that happens when too much moisture or water is sitting in the soil below. This is quite common in tropical and sub-tropical areas, including the humid southeast of the United States. Without mud rotary drilling, Carrollwood drilling professionals would find it very hard to gain access or collect samples with simple boring techniques of regular drill bits. Mud can easily clog or block a drill bit if it is not the right type, such as a drill bit that is used in harder sediment conditions such as rock and stone.

Mud and Water Make it Hard for Building Endeavors

Although mud is just a different variation of the different types of soil and different conditions that are applicable, mud can make it extremely difficult to build structures on top of. When a professional is performing mud rotary drilling, Carrollwood geotechnical drillers need to determine how deep into the ground they can go without hitting underground water and moisture. If a location is too saturated with moisture, it could cause a problem when construction crews are trying to build a structure, and it may even cause the construction crews to find a new location for their building project.

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When someone is asked to name the equipment used by a geotechnical drilling company, Carrollwood individuals are quick to think of drills but not much more. Although drills and drill bits are the most essential equipment used by a geotechnical drilling company, they are not the only pieces of equipment that are vital to any job. Geotechnical drilling professionals need to have access to many types of equipment to make their job possible, but also to make it easy and efficient. But what are some pieces of equipment that are important to geotechnical drilling professionals that are not simply different types of drills?

A Fleet of Vehicles

In order to get different sized drills to a location for specific job in mind, a geotechnical drilling company is going to need some vehicles to transfer all their equipment. Not only is it important that a professional drilling company has cars and trucks to get them where they need to go on land, but it is also important to have boats and barges from marine and ocean drilling when applicable. With a geotechnical drilling company, Carrollwood residents should not find it uncommon to see a company’s logo on many vehicles around town.

Lab Equipment for Analysis

Besides gaining access to the ground with the help of their drills, a Geotechnical drilling company Carrollwood residents would call on to assistance them also need great lab equipment to analyze some samples they have collected at locations. Most people think drilling companies are called out to perform tasks for a construction company, but they could also be contracted to perform testing and analysis of an area to see if there is anything under the ground, such as loose sediments from sinkhole activity that may be hard to notice at the surface level.

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In the state of Florida and other States around the ocean and with bodies of water, Amphibious drilling is a very important service for some individuals. When most people hear the service of amphibious drilling, Carrollwood residents are quick to imagine beachfront homes or big resorts and hotels, but there are many areas where amphibious drilling is important. While it is not wrong to assume that amphibious drilling is done on or near the ocean, there are also amphibious drilling services for individual who live on or near a river or lake. As long as a job requires both drilling on land and in the water, it does not matter where the service is being performed.

Ocean Drilling

Often the most popular area where an individual would utilize amphibious drilling is on the open ocean or a coastal area. Another area where it is possible to perform amphibious drilling, Carrollwood residents who live on an island may also need to utilize these services. Ocean drilling is not the easiest task for geotechnical drilling companies to perform because of working on the water, but also because it is very hard to see and determine what conditions look like below the surface of the water.

Inland Bodies of Water

It is not uncommon for new homes to be constructed near fresh bodies of water, which some then are built up and developed. Some of these bodies of water are extensions of a home, such as with a bridge, pier or dock. This is why the ocean is not the only place that a geotechnical drilling company performs amphibious drilling. Perfuming amphibious drilling in an inland body of water is not as difficult to deal with as with the open ocean, but it still presents its own set of challenges. Working on water and on land makes any project more difficult to finish.

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In some regions of the United States such as the state of Florida, having boats and barges as a drilling company is essential in order to properly navigate bodies of water with ease. There are many great reasons why a drilling company would prefer air boat drilling in waterways and bodies of water as opposed to any other type of boat or barge. With air boat drilling, Carrollwood drilling professionals often have little to no room to work in, or there are many objects and vegetation in a waterway that make other types of boats and rigs not applicable.

Wetlands and Rivers

It is not surprising that Florida and other states in the Southeast have many rivers, streams, and other bodies of water that be developed in the near future. Unlike other types of boats, air boats are great for maneuvering in the marshy wetlands and swamps that are often frequent. With air boat drilling, Carrollwood professional drilling companies do not have to worry about damaging their boats or rigs, or worry about not being able to drill in a specific location from too much debris and vegetation blocking the way.

Construction and Urban Development

Because there are so many wetlands and waterways in the state of Florida, it is not uncommon to come across them when professional drilling companies are contracted to do construction work such as foundational drilling. When a company is tasked with performing foundational drilling for something like a bridge, it is not uncommon for drilling professionals to be quick to use air boat drilling. Carrollwood residents should be aware that many structures other than bridges can be build onto or next to a body of water. It is not very practical to use large boats and barges for shallow bodies of water, but an air boat is just the right size and shape to get the job accomplished.

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