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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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