Hydracore Drills Ltd.
7702 Progress Way V4G 1A4 Delta, BC, Canada

HC2000 Underground Drill. 100HP 3 phase motor with options available to match all countries electrical requirements from 380V 600V in both 50hz and 60hz. For extreme conditions, an upgrade to a severe duty motor is available. Our H sized Drill Head is rated to take up to 200HP and up to 30,000lbs of pull back. We have eliminated the main sources of Drill Head failures by not including the chuck release bearing, internal opening cylinder, and gear transmission.

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HC 1000 T Tracked core and RC machine 75 HP, made to tear down for helicopter transport.

Here is a typical picture of a CS14. It is apart when it should be working because the release bearing in the chuck has failed. To reduce this problem the best thing to do is before each job starts replace those bearings with new ones, then they will probably last the whole job. Most machines suffer this problem with the release bearing, not just Atlas Copco. The trouble is this bearing is large in diameter and is positioned so water can enter. Regular greasing helps. O...n a Hydracore this NEVER happens because there is no release bearing! You don't need it! The function of the release bearing is to allow the chuck to spin even when the jaws are open. There is no reason why the head needs to spin while the chuck is open; but this bearing is almost universal on all drills, except Hydracore. It is almost like no one else is thinking. This bearing is also one of the major sources of heat in drill heads. It is large in diameter and doesn't like to go fast. See more

Here is a picture of the drill head on the CS3000. It is quite typical of standard drill head design. This head is running an 80cc Rexroth bent axis motor for power, into a Funk 4 speed gearbox. This is typical, but it doesn't make sense really. The Funk 4 speed is only rated at about 100 HP by the manufacturer, but this machine has an engine about 350 HP. The main rotation motor is small at 80cc I guess they did that so at least the input torque would be low enough to n...ot wreck the gearbox to quickly. Many other machines use a 160cc and at least in that way most of the drilling is in top gear which is easier on the gearbox. On the HC 4000 and 5000 head there is no gearbox. Instead we use a 250cc variable motor. That drives the spindle by a huge belt with a rating about 450 HP. There is no oil to leak out, there are only two bearings. Of coarse it is way more reliable and the maintenace costs are low. On this machine the Rexroth motor was working so hard the temperature was about 250 degrees F. The HC 5000 head runs about 160 degrees on the main motor and the bearing housing about 140 F. The heat is caused by wasted energy and the cool running of the 5000 head indicates a lot less wasted power. See more

Here is a picture of a CS3000 Atlas Copco I took in 2006 at the Las Bambas site in Peru. This machine never drilled as much as the HC 4000 on the same property. This was a very heavy and complicated machine compared with the Hydracore. All the extra weight and complication was actually a detriment to getting core in the box.

Here is a picture of a Hydracore 4000 drill. This is one of two machines Geotec S.A. in Lima Peru bought in 2006. This machine was powered by twin 100 HP Deutz air cooled engines, it was the most powerful machine we had made at that time. This machine could be moved in small loads by a side by side ATV with trailers. Most of the parts had detachable wheels. It could be moved on trails 1.5 meters wide. This machine averaged 2500 meters of drilling every month including t...he moves at the Las Bambas mine in Peru. The amazing thing about this is that at the same mine, Geotech had a number of truck mounted rigs at the same mine. The biggest machine they had the CS3000 never drilled more than 2000 meters in a month and often they only drilled 1500 meters. The 4000 was producing 40% more core over the whole period that the two machines were drilling on that site. The Hydracore cost less than 1/4 of the price of the CS3000 and besides being more versatile it produced more core. Part of this was because of the high reliabilty of the HC 4000. We now make the HC 5000 which is only a bit bigger but has even more power than the 4000 had. See more

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This is our track drill at PDAC Toronto. It's sold. Going to Sri Lanka

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Do any of my friends watch Curse of Oak Island? One of the latest shows has a Hydracore drill in it. Near the end there is an orange and silver machine on a barge. We build that for Conetec about a year ago. Here is a picture from that machines first job.

Hydracore 2000 underground

New HC 5000 machine drilling at 900 meters NQ, engine still idling!

Pictures from 2019

Lance Hubbard and Garry Wiebe at site in Ecuador

I am in Guatemala starting up three machines for Cementos Progesso.

Here is a picture of a machine we completed for Geotech Drilling, July 2016. This machine has a 11 1/2 foot stroke. It has two heads, an HC 2000 coring head with HQ chuck, and a Fraste top drive head. It also has a Fraste double footclamp with rod breaker, and an SPT hammer. It is made to be flown by a Helicopter with an 1800 lbs capacity.

Our specialty is core drills, but sometimes we branch out. Here is a multi purpose machine that we made for Vanmars Environmental drilling. It is unusually short, so that it can drill in underground parking lots. It has a very unusual feed frame which has a stroke of 46" but the mast is only 81" tall maximum. This machine is for augering or down hole hammering.

Here is a picture of a 50 HP underground machine we made for Geotech Drilling in Prince George delivered Sept 2015. It is in use now at the Hope Bay mine in NWT. It is a very fast machine for drillling B to a depth of about 800 feet. First Drilling has a very similar machine in use in Australia. First has had that machine since 2010 (when they were still called Connors USA. First is considering buying another one now as they keep this one very busy and it has worked out to be a very reliable machine.