Direct Push Capabilities

Direct Push Introduction:
Probing or “direct push” machines push tools and sensors into the ground without the use of drilling to remove soil to make a path for the tool. A probing machine relies on static weight of the carrier vehicle combined with percussion as the energy for advancement of a tool string. Probing tools do not remove cuttings from the probe hole but depend on compression of soil or rearrangement of soil particles to permit advancement of the tool string. Using a probing machine, you can drive tools to obtain continuous or discrete soil cores, obtain ground water or vapor samples, install permanent sampling points, inject remediation materials, or drive a sensor probe to map subsurface lithogy or contaminants.

 

Probing Machines:
Whatever your application, Matrix has a direct push unit to fulfill your project needs. Matrix’s fleet of direct push units is equipped with some of the most powerful and versatile hydraulic push equipment in the industry:

• Completed projects from 1 to over 1,000 borings
• Sample collection depths greater than 150-feet bgs.
• Access to remote locations – inside or outside

 

Matrix has five (5) Geoprobe units:

(1) Geoprobe Advance 6600 (Ford F550 Carrier Vehicle)
(1) Geoprobe Advance 6610DT (All-Terrain Track Carrier Vehicle)
(1) Geoprobe Model 540B (All-Terrain Bobcat Carrier Vehicle)
(1) Geoprobe Model 5400 (Ford F250 Carrier Vehicle)
(1) Geoprobe Model 540MT (Dolly Mounted Unit)

(See Rig Specifications)

Note: The Advance 6600 and 6610DT units are a couple of the most powerful direct push units commercially available. These units are not only capable of performing normal direct push sampling activities, but have the capability to spin up to 8-1/4” O.D. hollow stem augers, push 3-1/4” O.D. direct push rods, and advance direct sensing equipment such as UVOST, membrane interface and conductivity probes.