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Phala - "Drilling a Well"
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Jan.27,2010The location for the borehole was marked so the first order of business was to open a section of the wall and drive the drilling rig into the yard.pklongball
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Jan.27,2010The opening in the wall was just barely big enough for the rig.pklongball
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Jan.27,2010Once in place then the set up of the rig beginspklongball
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Jan.28,2010The crew came back in the morning of day 2 to begin the drilling. It will take one day to drill down about 20 meters or so into the soft dirt, sand and gravel.pklongball
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Jan.28,2010One man ran the operation and the second man was the "rough neck" that did all the laor of adding drilling pipe and checking the leavings coming from the bore.pklongball
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Jan.28,2010The work is boring and dirty and leaves a big mess in the yard.pklongball
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Jan.29,2010Day two the crew was now drilling into the granite about 25 meters down.pklongball
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Jan.29,2010This is the air compressor they used to run the drill head when drilling in to the rock/granite and to blow out the hole.pklongball
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Jan.29,2010The second day of drilling with the air pressure was extremely noisy and dirty and we had water and muddy water everywhere.pklongball
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Jan.29,2010Just more of the final drilling processpklongball
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