Hirado Rock Splitters

Hirado’s lightweight, mobile rock splitters are the perfect tool for breaking rock and concrete structures in areas with restricted access and noise and vibration regulations.

Hirado Powerful Rock Splitters

A larger, more powerful version of rock splitter designed for breaking high volumes of hard rock and concrete in an efficient, safe, vibration free, dust free and virtually silent manner.

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Geotechnical Drilling Photos

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Drilling Videos

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Terrier Rig Tooling

Dando stocks and supplies a wide range of high quality specialist tooling for use with its Dando Terrier drilling rig, including drive rods, samplers, duplex casing, dynamic probing rods and BWY rods.

Cable Percussion Tooling

Dando supply all types and sizes of tooling for use with its cable percussion drilling rigs, including sinker bars, shells, clay cutters and SPT & U4/U100 equipment.

Reverse Circulation (RC) Drilling Equipment

The Reverse Circulation drilling method involves air being forced down between the inner and outer pipes of a dual wall drill pipe with the cuttings being forced up through the centre of the rods. Equipment available from Dando includes RC hammers, bits, cyclones and splitters, rods, subs and air swivels.

Down-the-Hole (DTH) Drilling Equipment

DTH hammer drilling is the industry standard for the rapid drilling of boreholes for a variety of uses such as water wells, blasting and sub-surface void locations. Dando offers many designs and types of drilling bit for various applications, and to suit different hammers.

Wireline Coring Equipment

The wireline coring system allows increased production in holes where a continuous core sample is required. Dando can supply a wide range of coring tooling items in NWL, HWL and PWL sizes.

Auger Drilling Equipment

Dando supplies a full range of premium steel continuous flight and hollow stem augers as well as heads and various accessories.

Casing

Casing is either used as a temporary support in non-cohesive and weak collapsing formations or as a permanent method of lining a borehole such as in a water well. Dando is able to provide rotary, well and PVC Casing as well as a wide range of accessories.

Spare Parts

Dando supplies a wide range of high quality manufacturer approved spare parts for its rotary, cable percussion and Terrier drilling rigs.

Servicing and Repairs

To ensure your Dando rig is providing continuous optimum performance, Dando offers servicing and repairs for all its rotary, cable percussion and Terrier drilling rigs.

Furukawa DCR22 Crawler Drill

The Furukawa DCR22 is a premium down-the-hole (DTH) hydraulic crawler drill specially designed for surface drilling at UK mines and quarries.

SPT Calibration Service

Dando Drilling offers a Standard Penetration Test (SPT) calibration facility at its factory premises near Littlehampton, West Sussex.

Jackal 4000 Multipurpose Drilling Rig

Occupying a small footprint, this compact yet powerful multipurpose drilling rig allows the user to carry out a wide range of drilling techniques to medium depths in areas of difficult terrain and limited space.

Dando Duke Cable Percussion Drilling Rig

Available in both trailer and track mounted versions, the new cutting edge Dando Duke cable percussion rig boasts a range of innovative features for increased efficiency, safety and productivity.

Core Bits

Dando’s ‘Destroyer’ range of core bits are used globally by clients in both the mineral and geotechnical sectors, receiving positive feedback for their high performance rates and longevity.

Drilling Additives

Dando supplies a wide range of drilling foams, hydratable clays and polymers. To find the most suitable additive for your drilling operation please click on the link below to our drilling additives guide.

Drill Rods

Dando manufacture a wide range of high grade steel drill rods at their UK based factory.

Dando Terrier

Small, versatile crawler mounted site investigation drilling rig for conducting a range of sampling methods in areas of restricted space and access.

Dando Terrier Rotary Rig

Perfect for rotary drilling in confined spaces of difficult access, this small, incredibly versatile drilling rig can be used for continuous flight & hollow stem augering, coring as well as drilling with tricones, drag bits and DTH hammers.

All Tooling

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Dando Duplex Drive (3D) System

Dando’s latest Multitec 4000 multipurpose drilling rig is now available with the new Dando 3D geotechnical sampling and testing system.

Angle Drilling Dando Terrier

The compact and versatile Dando Terrier is now available fitted with a mast dump for angle drilling up to 45 degrees from vertical.

SDC375 Sonic Drilling Rig (Bespoke)

Using the sonic drilling technique, the SDC375 is a compact, robust drilling rig capable of rapidly collecting samples of up to 8 inches in diameter.

Jackal 9000 Multipurpose Drilling Rig

A truly multipurpose drilling rig incorporating a pullback capacity of 10,000kg within a lightweight and compact structure. Perfect for water well, mineral exploration, geotechnical and GSHP drilling.

Mintec 12.8 Mineral Exploration Drilling Rig

With a pullback capacity of 12,800 kgf, the Mintec 12.8 is an extremely powerful mid-range mineral exploration drilling rig for wireline coring, reverse circulation and rotary air blast drilling in harsh environments.

Mintec 18 Mineral Exploration Drilling Rig

A large, powerful heavy-duty mineral exploration rig, the Mintec 18 is capable of wireline coring, reverse circulation and rotary air blast drilling in all geological formations to extreme depths. The rig boasts 18,000 kgf of pullback.

Watertec 9000 Water Well Drilling Rig

With 9 tonnes pullback capacity, the compact, robust Watertec 9000 water well rig is designed for mud rotary, DTH hammer and flooded reverse circulation drilling techniques

Watertec 12.8 Water Well Drilling Rig

A strong, powerful water well drilling rig for medium depth boreholes. Capable of mud rotary, DTH hammer and flooded reverse circulation drilling methods.

Watertec 24 Water Well Drilling Rig

A high performance heavy-duty water well rig designed for borehole drilling to great depths while mounted on a 6 x 6 truck.

Watertec 40 Water Well Drilling Rig

A tough, extremely powerful water well drilling rig for deep borehole drilling in remote areas of rough terrain and harsh working conditions

MK 1000 Power Swivel

Similar to the MK 500, this power swivel model is fitted with a twin worm and single wheel gear totally enclosed in an oil bath case.

MK 500 Power Swivel

The Dando MK 500 incorporates a 150mm I.D. hollow spindle mounted on taper roller bearing and is fitted with a worm and wheel gear totally enclosed in an oil bath case.

BSR10 Borehole Servicing Rig

The Dando BSR10 is one of a family of powerful borehole servicing rigs.

BSR Borehole Servicing Rigs

Built on the same tough principles as its drilling rigs, Dando’s BSR10,16 & 24 machines offer a range of features to enable the development, servicing and remediation of water wells.