Portable Hot Water Drill
These drills use hot water to create shallow holes in the ice. Primary use is for producing shot holes and shallow access holes. Transportable by light aircraft and helicopter.
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Rapid Air Movement (RAM) Drill
Rapid Air Movement drill for the fast production of deep seismic shot holes approximately 100 mm in diameter to depths of 90 meters.
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2-Inch Drill
The 2-Inch drill is much smaller and lighter than the Badger-Eclipse Drill. The maximum depth to which this model of drill has cored is 42 meters. Core diameter is 51 mm.
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4-Inch Drill
A cable-suspended electromechanical drill that retrieves cores 104 mm in diameter down to approximately 400 meters depth.
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Badger-Eclipse Drill
The Badger-Eclipse drill is an electromechanical drill that takes 81 mm (3.25-inch) diameter cores up to 400 meters depth. The drill system is transportable by small aircraft or helicopter.
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Blue Ice Drill
An agile drill capable of retrieving cores of approximately 9 1/2 inch diameter to depths up to 25 meters in solid ice.
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Chipmunk Drill
The smallest drill in the IDDO inventory, it is a hand-held, motor driven coring drill that collects 2-inch diameter cores in solid ice.
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Deep Ice Sheet Coring (DISC) Drill
An electromechanical drill system capable of cutting and retrieving cores of ice to depths of 4,000 meters. The cores produced by the drill are 122 mm (4.8 inches) in diameter.
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Electrothermal Drill
This drill melts an annulus around the core. It supplements the 4-Inch Drills and can be substituted for the 4-Inch sonde for use in ice warmer than about -10°C.
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Hand Auger
The hand auger is the most basic of the mechanical drills and is driven from the surface by a series of extensions that are added as drilling proceeds into the ice.
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Koci Drill
The Koci Drill is designed to perform in ice with entrained sand and rock. The drill produces 76-mm (3-inch) diameter cores a few tenths of a meter long.
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Prairie Dog Drill
A modified hand auger that includes a stationary outer barrel to allow operation in solid ice, as well as firn. The drill can retrieve cores 102 mm in diameter to depths of 40 meters (w/ SideWinder).
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Replicate Ice Coring System
The Replicate Ice Coring System collects additional ice at depths of interest by deploying into an existing borehole and then deviating from it.
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Sidewinder Power Drive
The Sidewinder is not a drill but rather a drive/lifting system used in conjunction with hand augers to extend the maximum practical depth of coring with a hand auger to about 40 m.
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Intermediate Depth Logging Winch (IDLW)
The IDLW is capable of logging boreholes 1500 meters deep, can operate at temperatures as low as -45 degrees C, and is transportable by Twin Otter.
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Logging Tower
This device straps to the protruding casing of a borehole allowing a sheave to extend up above the borehole (for borehole logging) with no need for any kind of tripod or crane.
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