Water Well, Offshore Drilling, Diamond Coring, Reverse Circulation

CAPABILITIES

Sides continue to be the industry leaders in the area of high tolerance large diameter hammer drilling.

Sides own and operate Australia's largest down hole hammers and offer both single and their own gang designs in sizes to one meter and in both conventional and reverse circulation configurations with matching pipes drill collars stabilisers and swivels.

The Sides gang hammers are available in a number of sizes and configurations. They use multiple 12" hammer elements, the maximum depth to date being just under 500 metres at 750mm diameter single pass. These depths have been attained with blind hole drilling, greater diameters and depths are possible if we drop cuttings into underground workings. These massive tools quickly and cheaply drill holes large enough for man recovery shafts in mines, accurately drill pre-bores for raise drills or form hard pile rock sockets for piles on land or at sea. Sides have the necessary expertise and specialised rigs, heavy drill pipe, stabilisers, compressors and barges to support these massive tools in almost any situation.

CLIENTS & PROJECTS

Sides has completed the following projects in recent history using large diameter hammer drilling:
•	Paste fill hole to 765 metres at Osborne Mine for Placer Dome
•	610mm diameter sockets, raked at 1:4 through marine sediments and basalt for the Bunbury Berth #6 Wharf for Clough Engineering
•	1m diameter sockets for piles in open ocean at Port Kembla
•	350mm diameter raise bore pilot holes at Telfer to a depth of over 900 metres
•	A variety of diameters for high tolerance dam anchors at Canning, Warragamba, Ross River, Nurrican and Hume Dams

Sides Drilling Contractors: Water Well, Offshore Drilling, Diamond Coring, Gas Well, Melbourne, Australia