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Lightweight, custom-built drills for tower sites that roads cannot reach — foundations and guy anchors flown to the pad.
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Revolution Drilling provides heli-portable drilling for transmission foundations and guy anchors on pads that roads cannot reach. Custom lightweight drills, compressors, and support packages are flown to remote mountain and northern tower sites so rock anchors, micropiles, and foundations can be installed without building road access.
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Heli-portable foundation drilling uses lightweight drill spreads and support gear that a helicopter can lift to a tower pad. Crews install rock anchors, guy anchors, micropiles, or foundations on site, then demobilize without permanent road access. Revolution Drilling builds and stages custom heli drills and compressors for this work.
It is required when tower sites sit beyond practical road or track access — steep mountain slopes, protected terrain, muskeg, or long remote spans. Programs such as Long Lake Hydro, Wataynikaneyap, Maritime Link, and Northwest Transmission used heli-portable or mixed heli/track methods for foundations and anchors.
Revolution Drilling stages custom heli drills, custom hand drills, heli-portable compressors, and related packages sized for transmission pads. The same crews coordinate grout plants and support units so anchors and foundations can be completed on remote schedules.
Revolution Drilling specializes in heli-portable transmission drilling and anchoring from its Grande Prairie, Alberta base, with project history across British Columbia, northern Ontario, Atlantic Canada, and other Canadian corridors where fly-in pads are the only practical access.
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Revolution Drilling’s heli-portable crews install rock-anchor foundations, guy-wire anchors, and related tower foundation work on remote transmission pads.
Yes. Examples include Long Lake Hydro Transmission over the B.C. Coast Range and Northwest Transmission work in northwest British Columbia using heli-portable drills for anchors and foundations.
Yes. Programs such as Wataynikaneyap and IF56-Foran used heli-portable and track-mounted spreads together so each structure got the access method that fit the pad.
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