THE DIARY GAME: 08.08.2020: THE DRILLING EXPERIENCE

Hello steemians…I hope u all had a nice day…
What another privilege to share how I spent my day….am glad having you all on this blockchain.
Today was really a stressful day for me…you know what? It was really stressful, working with fun….hmmm. I hate it, so boring a day.

When I woke up this morning about 7:00am, I prepared breakfast. After that, I took my bath…freshened up, getting ready for work…I actually waited for a long time looking for a taxi to take me down to the site we are to work today.
On a surprise, I saw an old friend which to drive alone, so helped gave me a lift down to the site.

Here on the site today, actually going to drill for a borehole water. On reaching the site, without time wastage….to the main business of the day.

“Drilling” that’s the key word for today…this actually involves the proper selection of equipment to an already geological studied site to drill a hole vertically through the soil horizon.
This drilling was carried out on the site using manual drilling techniques of which is a very complicated process.

Before we started the drilling, a good drilling site has was selected, and as an experienced geologist, I suggested that there will be an adequate quantity of good quality groundwater from the point of my selection based on the result gotten from the geophysical survey that was carried out on the landscape.

Here with us at the site are some drilling equipment/materials named as follows: Mud pumps, Water storage(GP) tanks, Drill bits and drill stems, Hose, Clamps, Drilling chemicals and grease, Water, etc.

Before starting the drilling process, the site was prepared as shown below…that’s digging the mud pit and mud path for a proper circulation of water to the drilling bit.

After preparing the site, I had to sharpen the drilling bit as shown below:

After sharpening the drilling bit, we went straight ahead for the drilling proper.
Here we go…

This drilling process involved the jetting technique of drilling which was operated by five men drilling team as I was a site geologist to taking analysis of the drilled samples.
During the process, the drill stem and drill bit was tightened to the chaka- chaka as shown and rotated in a clockwise manner to drill a hole. This process was aided by a circulating movement of water pumped by a mud pump from the mud pit which is connected through a hose in to the swivel head connected to the drill stem which in turn passes through the drill stem in to the drill bit softening the ground or soil for easy crushing or cutting of the soil.

As the drilling continues, water was extracted from the hole which pulls out running through the mud path into the mud pit.
During this process, in every 10 feet drilled, as a geologist in the site, I collected the samples, rinsed thoroughly so as to analyse the sample.

During the drilling process, the drill stems were connected to each other by rubbing grease on the screw mouth before attaching them to each other. The drilling process was carried out to variable depth were clean water could be extracted based on the samples I collected.
After the end of this drilling process, the drill stems were pulled out from the hole using clamps for a well construction to be done.
I was actually so very tired…just got to rest a little before continuing…as at this time
This was actually the schematic diagram I prepared for the well to be constructed

After constructing the drilled well…that was the end of the work for today…everyone is tired…on our way back home…..
That’s how I spent my day…
THANK YOU