The Cubex DR 540 installing steel casings.

This is a Cubex DR 540 DTH Drill installing an 18 foot length of steel casing.There is a ring bit on the bottom that a casing bit locks into and they both drill the casing into the ground...works great!

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• Cubex
• steel casings
• mining
• drilling.

[portboypj]

awesome drills thats a 560 though (1120)

[HardRokMiner]

@portboypj - It is an awesome drill. But you're wrong. Its a Generation V 920...or (540) now that Sandvik got their mitts on it.) The 'Dolomite' video I have posted is the same drill, you can clearly see the 920 model number if you won't take my word for it. Go ahead...take a look.

[bullerrovers]

and where abouts do you drill mate, what sort of hammers are you running? i operate cubex 1120

[HardRokMiner]

@bullerrovers - The casings are used when there is alot of over burden (broken ground) on top of the bedrock.

They are drilled a foot or so into bedrock and this makes it much easier and more effecient to drill the production holes. As I'm sure you know, its a bitch to keep a hole in badly broken ground. Casings solve this problem. We use alot of types of hammers. Sandvik, Halco, RockHog and Copco's. I drill in Canada, the home of Cubex!

[HardRokMiner]

@bullerrovers - I have also used the 1120 and the 1320. These are nice drills in my opinion. Thank you for the question. Have a great day, mate.

[portboypj]

@HardRokMiner my bad, i've been on the 1120s for about a year now and can't get enough of them hope sandvic keep making them just as good as cubex were

[bullerrovers]

what is the casing for?, is that to keep a good collar on the drill hole?