Taber Drilling has a focused mission of supporting the geo-science community with expert exploration/testing capabilities and a spirit of service.
We like to say to our clients and colleagues, whether old or new. . .
Taber Drilling’s organizational roots were established in 1954 as part of the creation of Moore and Taber, a pioneer firm in the practice of Foundation Engineering and Engineering Geology. The founding partners, Ret Moore and Ray Taber, met while they were both working for the State's Bridge Department in the late 1940's. While there, they were assigned to "write the book" for how to perform bridge foundation investigations.
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In line with our mission of service to the geo-science community, TABER has assembled an array of drills and support equipment specially chosen to meet our clients' project requirements. The goal that drives our company comes from our founding historical roots . . . to do whatever is necessary (safely) to acquire the "data required at the location desired". In-house drills have been carefully selected to have the capacity to reach requested depths and to enable quality sampling while support tools, drill carriers and rigging enable access to most drill locations, under most field conditions.
Exploration equipment includes heavy to light duty auger and rotary combination geotechnical drilling rigs and 20-ton CPT (electronic "push") equipment, a shallow draft drill-float for over-water exploration and crawlers and ATVs for difficult access and sensitive terrain conditions.
CME 55 HD TRUCK DRILL
—Heavy Duty Model
DIEDRICH D-120 TRUCK DRILL
—High Torque—High Speed Drillhead
CME 75 4X4 TRUCK DRILL
CME 55 HD CRAWLER DRILL
—Heavy Duty Models/Rubber Tracks
SIMCO 2400 CRAWLER DRILL
—Limited Access—High Torque
CME 45 SKID DRILL and FLOAT
—Cme 45 Skid-Rig On Float/ Trailer
20 TON ELECTRONIC "PUSH" CPT
—Ten-Wheeled Truck Unit, Ballasted to 45,000 lbs
CME 55 Crawler
—Track Rig CPT with up to 20 ton capabilities
SIMCO 2400 CRAWLER DRILL
—Limited Access—High Torque
CME 55
—Low Clearance Model. 8ft down and 12ft up
MINUTEMAN HAND PORTABLE UNIT
—Gasoline Powered
All operators and supervisors receive OSHA 30-hour Construction Training, OSHA 40-hour Emergency-Hazardous Training (29CFR 1910.120), annual refresher courses, CPR, First Aid, defensive driving training, etc., and are well prepared to properly respond to both planned and emergent field conditions. Our overriding field operations commitment is . . . "safety is no accident", so we plan all work by first planning to be safe.
