An auger boring machine is used to drill earth horizontally. It consists of a cutting head, a flighted drive tube, and the drive mechanism to supply the force to push the auger through the earth.

Model McL-48/54 auger boring machine is capable of cased boring sizes ranging from a 16- to 60-inch diameter. A new quick-connect split-design feature enables machine components to individually be ...

DEHRADUN: A heavy-duty drilling machine flown in by the IAF from Delhi began boring through the rubble of a collapsed tunnel on the Char Dham route in Uttarakha ...

A new American auger drilling machine has started drilling through the debris in the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi, where 40 workers have been trapped for over 100 hours.

The drill has a rotational blade, called auger, which is fixed to a drill stem. Rescuers in Uttarakhand have already set up 3 auger drills and will soon deploy three more.

It came just a day after the machine’s platform became destabilized and halted operations. The 25-tonne platform was reinforced with concrete and drilling resumed, but the machine broke down again.

UTTARKASHI: A 25-tonne platform mounting the auger machine being used to drill through the debris in the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand has been repaired, and r ...

Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: Labourers have been trapped inside the collapsed tunnel for the past 12 days. A multi-agency rescue operation including PMO officials are monitoring the progress.

As operations to rescue the 41 trapped workers at the Silkyara Tunnel collapse site entered day 16, there was some positive news with Micro tunnelling expert Chris Cooper saying that all the debris of ...

The US-made high-duty auger machine was deployed for the drilling of the earth at the Silkyara site on November 16, four days after the under-construction tunnel caved in trapping 41 workers inside.

Nearly three feet diameter pipes will be pushed through the heap of debris by drilling a hole using auger drilling machines in the tunnel where 40 labourers have been trapped arrived at the ...

The mission to rescue the 41 workers trapped in an under-construction tunnel in Uttarakhand encountered another snag as the auger machine being used to drill broke inside the rescue pipes on ...