Rescue Rod offers horizontal directional drilling through any material and under any surface structure. We can drill through solid rock to lay your pipe without blasting and minimal surface disruptions.
Horizontal directional drilling is fast becoming the preferred method of pipe or sleeve installation due to the reduced impact on the environment, community and surrounding infrastructure. In the past horizontal directional drilling was limited to soft pickable material but now with some newly acquired technology Rescue Rod is able to drill through just about anything.

Just recently we completed a 30m drill through solid rock under a road. Due to the heavy traffic on the road there was no possibility of open excavation.

  • The drill started out by boring a 125mm pilot hole.

 

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  • The 125mm hole was then back reamed to 250mm and finally to 350mm to fit a 250mm HDPE pipe.
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  • The final product is a 250mm sleeve with a 160mm sewer line:

250mm sleeve and 160mm sewer