| 45 T T Hugh de Lacy Drilling experts offer wide ranging services The main drilling rig is a Foremost DR-24 which, mounted on a Western Star truck, can drill holes as wide as 600mm in diameter and up to 1000m deep. Carlyle Drilling CONTRACTING Perhaps because drilling for water has been in Mark Carlyle’s blood for three generations, the co-owner with wife Jodie of Te Puke’s Carlyle Drilling has the gift of water divining, and uses it frequently in the company’s work. Carlyle Drilling was started by Mark’s grandfather Ted Carlyle in Cambridge back in the 1970s, then taken over by his father Murray Carlyle in the early 1980s. Murray shifted the business to Te Puke about the time he took it over, from where it now services the wider Bay of Plenty agricultural sector. Though yet to be fully explained by science, water-divining has long been a proven way of finding water underground, as Mark Carlyle can attest because at least part of the success of the family business can be put down to it. Mark, who grew up on drill sites working with his father, took over the business with Jodie in the early 1990s and, besides themselves, they have two full-time staff, one of them learning the ropes and the other a veteran of drilling rigs in Australia. Between them they operate three main drilling rigs, sometimes having all three operating at the same time on different sites, drilling holes from 100mm to 300mm in diameter. The main drilling rig is a Foremost DR-24 which, mounted on a Western Star truck, can drill holes as wide as 600mm in diameter and up to 1000m deep. The DR-24 is a dual rotary drive machine and Carlyle Drilling’s most powerful drill. It’s used for large municipal, industrial, farm and irrigation wells, and it has the added versatility of simultaneously drilling and casing the hole. A recent purchase is the Versadrill drilling rig which can get onto the trickier sites, and a GD1400 rig for medium-to-large industrial, farm and irrigation bores. Carlyle Drilling also sports a highly diversified fleet of support vehicles and equipment, including rod trucks, water trucks, flat-deck and Hiab crane trucks, excavators and various utilities. As well as irrigation and frost protection for the horticulture sector and for the dairy industry’s stock water supplies - both of these industries have been upgrading their water supplies extensively over the past decade - Carlyle Drilling does a range of jobs for local authorities, including Tauranga City, and the Western Bay of Plenty, Kawarau, Opotiki and Whakatane District Councils. Over several decades Jodie and Mark have been building up a database of Carlyle Drilling’s completed projects, and it now sports no fewer than 2000 entries. “We record where every hole was drilled, how deep it went, and the quality and quantity of the water they produce,” Jodie says. “It’s become an invaluable resource because when we take on a job we’re able to consult the database on the nearest hole to it and get an idea of where to drill, how deep, and what to expect from it.” Most of Carlyle Drilling’s work is in the agricultural sector, and since the last recession in 2018 there’s been strong demand for the company’s services, but that’s slowed a wee bit of late. “Things have definitely eased back, and we think it’s because of Cyclone Gabrielle ripping through and hurting the kiwifruit growers in particular.” Proud to support Carlyle Drilling Established in 1955 and still based at 27 Glasgow Street Tauranga, Robert Page Engineering Ltd is a New Zealand owned and operated Company that proudly provides a repair, maintenance and large capacity CNC production machining services to various industries. enquiry@robertpage.co.nz 07 578 4171 • General Engineering • Quarries • Heavy machinery and Port Equipment • CNC machining • CAD Design • Project management • Manufactures of Prokerb Kerbing machines Congratulations Mark & Jodie Carlyle providing professional water well drilling services for thousands of holes, and satisfied customers Would you like a different perspective looking forward? Call us on 07 579 6022 Good Information Better Decisions Freedom “We record where every hole was drilled, how deep it went, and the quality and quantity of the water they produce.”
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