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What do owners think about their Geoprobe® drill rig? Check out some of the stories below to learn how their rigs helped them achieve success and perhaps discover how a Geoprobe® drill rig could spark the next step in your own environmental, geotechnical, exploration, geothermal, and water well drilling business growth.
High-Speed Coring Head for Geoprobe® Sonics
While Geoprobe® sonic machines effectively core rock, sonic does tend to induce fractures in the sample. So if the job calls for accurate...
ID: 5203 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
Air Rotary Drilling with a 7822DT
Never underestimate the capability of the 7822DT! Every day, customers become aware of applications they can offer their clients based on the power...
ID: 4582 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
54TR Mounting Options
Are you looking for a limited access, specialty direct push machine? Our 54TR combines the proven 54 Series probe assembly...
ID: 2190 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
Geoprobe® DI Team Posts HPT Logging Services Specification
Hydraulic Profiling Tool (HPT) Logging is getting a lot of use these days. HPT logs are a good tool for evaluating site stratigraphy...
ID: 5182 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
Machine Refurbish Makes Good Cents
The timing is right for 7822DTs, 8040DTs, and even some sonic rigs to come in for a refurb or repairs, especially if you continue to run one of the older...
ID: 5218 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
8140LC Sonic: Unmatched Versatility
“As far as rig performance goes, I have to say it did very well,” Randy Crandell, Driller for Major Drilling in Salt Lake City, UT, said recently...
ID: 4580 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
3230DT Helps Expand Services for Active Environmental Technologies
Our goal at Active Environmental Technologies, Inc. was to expand the drilling division to provide a much broader range of services to...
ID: 2159 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
What’s an easy way to keep your Geoprobe® machine running at peak performance?
We get calls every week, “the engine cranks but will not start or will not run well.” The number one cause is improper fuel system maintenance...
ID: 5335 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
Limited Head Space for 7822DT
Hynes & Associates, in Salisbury, MD, recently completed another difficult drilling project using a Geoprobe® 7822DT...
ID: 5215 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
7822DT Uses Air Rotary for Geothermal Loop Installation
During the last 23 years, Tony Poulter, Vice President and Co-Owner of RAZEK in Louisburg, KS, has operated a Geoprobe® machine...
ID: 4578 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
Brothers Find Employees and Geoprobe® Valuable to Grow Business
In 2005, Andrew and Tony Armstrong set forward to challenge themselves by starting their own company, Direct Environmental Drilling...
ID: 5116 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
GeoTest Services in San Antonio Knows How to Dial In...Limited Access Machines
GeoTest Services in San Antonio, TX, completed five limited access interior borings to +/- 20 feet at the University of Houston Cougars...
ID: 5197 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
GeoTek Hawaii Helps Introduce Ground Freezing Technology to Paradise
GeoTek Hawaii was recently retained by Drayko Construction in Honolulu, HI, to complete an innovative project for the City and County...
ID: 5196 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
Using HPT Logs for Identifying Brine Impact on Fresh Water Aquifers
Last summer Wes McCall and Geoprobe® summer intern Mateus Evald conducted field tests with the Hydraulic Profiling Tool–Groundwater...
ID: 5324 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
Geoprobe® Sonic Weighted Wireline - A Real Game Changer for the Sonic Industry
Moving things forward. That’s what the sonic weighted wireline tooling from Geoprobe Systems® does. Call it raising the bar...
ID: 5193 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
Customers Find Success with Geoprobe® 3.75 in. Tooling
Geoprobe® 3.75 in. tooling was designed in conjunction with the Geoprobe® 2.0-in. Slim Prepacks to create a more efficient...
ID: 5141 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
Stearns Drilling On Site of Possible Vehicle Research Center
Stearns Drilling mobilized their Geoprobe® 8140LS rotary sonic to the former Willow Run Powertrain Plant in Ypsilanti Township in Michigan, the site...
ID: 5275 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
Spring Assisted Swivel Pull Cap
This is one of my favorite accessory tools. It’s simple and effective. This is a true impact-making, gotta-see-it-to-believe-it...
ID: 5273 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
Indexing Rack for 10-Foot Sonic Tooling
With a few basic movements and one ‘touch’ of the drill stem, sonic tooling can be loaded into the rig’s rod loader, and the machine’s functions take over...
ID: 5209 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
The Bikes on Broadway
Ever present on the North Campus of Geoprobe Systems® (located on Broadway Blvd) but seldom seen by the public, these men and their ‘machines’ ride...
ID: 5110 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
MIP Logging Used to Investigate Site Contaminated by Mixture of VOCs
Dekonta company, a central/eastern European environmental company in Prague, completed both research and commercial activities...
ID: 5224 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
Riverbed Characterization on Aa River in Belgium
Students and a Professor from the Free University of Brussel (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) used a Geoprobe® Pneumatic Slug Test Kit to perform slug tests inside the Aa...
ID: 5259 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
Sonic Double Wall 4.5 in. (SDW45) Sampling System
The Sonic Double Wall 4.5-in. (SDW45) tooling system compliments the conventional sonic 4x6 system. It’s a simple and effective tooling system...
ID: 5266 | Date:
Probing Times Fall 2016
Switch to Sonic? No Way!
The Geoprobe® sonic rig has really done some incredible things” Robert said. “Everywhere we’ve gone it’s really impressed everyone...