So many drills, so few holes to drill.

Just noticed how dusty they are from lack of use!

Bocasami - Curacao

Saronic gulf, Greece.

River Protva, Borovsk

Mitten in der Nordoberpfalz ragt er aus der Landschaft: Der 83 Meter hohe Bohrturm des Kontinentalen Tiefbohrprogramms. Hier wurde zwischen 1987 und 1995 mehrere Bohrversuche unternommen um neue Erkenntnisse über die Erdkruste zu erfahren. Die Hauptbohrung begann im September 1990 und wurde im Oktober 1994 bei einer Tiefe von 9.101 Metern beendet. In Europa ist es die tiefste Bohrung, weltweit steht es nach der Kola-Bohrung auf Platz 2.

Drilling Hole

In mid of the north of Upper Palatinate a tower sticks out of the countryside. The drilling tower of the Continental Deep Drilling Programme is 83 meters tall. Between 1987 and 1995 several trials of drilling were made to get new findings about the earth's crust. The main drilling hole began in September 1990 and ended in Oktober 1994 in a depth of 9.101 meters. This hole is the deepest in Europe, worldwide on second place after the Kola Superdeep Borehole.

Laid-up oil platforms at Pelican Island, Galveston, Texas.

$45. Photo prop.

Thank you for visits, comments and favs.

Vielen Dank für Eure Besuche, Kommentare und Sternchen.

Carpenter's tools...

Macro Mondays - Drill bits inside a plastic case and held in place with plastic clips.

For Macro Mondays "Broken" theme. The drill bit is 1/8" (3+mm) in diameter.

HMM

Drilling for water

does a drill cause spiral spills because the drill is a spiral?

Offshore oil platforms, docked at Pelican Island, Galveston, Texas, on a cold, overcast winter day.

A used wood drill

Back in the fall of 1995, I was called at Argentine yard in Kansas City for a work train on the Emporia Subdivision. Our job was to drill into the sub-roadbed and pump a lime-slurry into the soil to help stabilize the roadbed.

Here we are on Olathe Hill west of Kansas City taking a break as a westbound train charges up the hill past us. We'd work both Olathe Hill and Wellsville Hill that day before calling it quits.

Leica Q2 Monochrom

Summilux 28mm/f1.7 Asph.

www.frankwohlfeil.com

Some virgin drill cobolt drill bits for drilling hard things with.

Focus stack (50 images) Shot with single off-camera strobe (Godox AD200Pro/XPro II trigger), bare bulb, mounted on overhead boom, bounced off 32 inch white umbrella.

Shot for Macro Mondays - spiral

62 mm (l) x 10 mm (dia)

masonry drill bits differ from normal drill bits in that they have a hardened cutting tip (usually tungsten carbide) that is used to chip/grind hard materials such as masonry, brick or stone rather than cut through the material. The deeply fluted spiral shape that of the bit helps to remove dust and debris from the hole that is formed. Masonry bits are tippically used in hammer drills that use a combination of percussion and rotation to create a hole of the desired dimension

For Macro Mondays "Sidelit" theme

HMM

Kingsburg, Ca.

Kingsburg Historical Park

Limosa Limosa

Reminder of our oil dependance even on beautiful Tenerife.

Happy Fence Friday!

View On Black

Two SD40-3's switch cuts of double stack at the west end of North Baltimore, Ohio yard.

CP T-43 pulls a cut of cars down the yard lead at Windsor Yard with a veteran ex SOO SD60 on point.

Train: CP T-43 with CP 6255 (SD60).

Windsor Yard (Windsor Subdivision)

Windsor, ON

Macro Mondays: "Spiral"

I am amazed the we (in the USA) still use the imperial measurement system.

The image is about 4.5 cm (1.75 inches) on the long edge.

Y127 drills a cut of autoracks for the Amports dock, hidden behind the bridge to the left. With CSX reinstating a Detroit to Curtis Bay autorack train, this scene has become a daily, routine occurence. Something i have not been familiar with since 2019.

Train: CSXT Y127 with CSXT 6531 (GP40-3), CSXT 2808 (GP38-2)

CSXT Seawall Branch

Curtis Bay, Baltimore, Maryland

The Drill Inn

Semisubmersible drilling rig