About Batten Drilling, Inc.

Batten Drilling, Inc., has been in business since 1993 and is currently active in commercial, power, communication and industrial foundation drilling. The company has extensive experience in drilled straight shafts and under reamed shafts including rock drilling, temporary casing and slurry displacement method where required because of water and soil conditions. Batten Drilling currently owns and operates 15 drilling machines: 3 for low clearance drilling (1 rubber tired and 2 track machines), and 12 regular drilling machines (10 rubber tired and 2 on tracks).

Batten Drilling will work with the construction supervisors in scheduling the appropriate size and number of rigs. Batten Drilling has all tooling necessary to efficiently complete a project. Among this tooling we have an inventory of large and small diameter pipe for upper and down hole casing needs. Should casing be required, Batten Drilling will mobilize specified steel pipe to the site. Procedure includes over sizing hole, setting temporary steel pipe to seal hole, cleaning out the shaft and pulling pipe as concrete is poured into hole. When a project requires slurry drilling, Batten Drilling has two 130 barrel vacuum trucks along with a mud cleaning system consisting of one 300 barrel shaker tank and one 500 barrel storage tank to provide a turnkey slurry drilling operation. Procedure consists of the use of polymer or bentonite drilling fluid to create head pressure in a drilled shaft in order to excavate to the required depth with the least amount of caving. Once at desired depth, steel reinforcing and concrete form are set. A concrete pump truck will be dispatched to site at which time a sealed tremie of appropriate length for drilled shaft will be clamped to concrete pump truck. The tremie will be lowered to bottom of hole, and concrete will be pumped to grade while a trash pump pumps the slurry to a desanding tank to be cleaned and finally to the holding tank. In addition to slurry experience on commercial jobs, Batten Drilling, Inc. has completed over 1700 cell tower sites with one to three shafts being required on each site. A large number of these shafts, ranging in sizes up to 108” X 65’, were processed by the slurry displacement method.

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