Tomorrow I fly to Heerenveen in the Netherlands to give input on the construction of our new track-mounted CPT rig.

We are very excited by this new addition to our fleet and the flexibility it will give us on site access in soft soils. In addition, it will give us redundancy should our current truck-mounted rig go down.

This new rig will also feature the high productivity equipment from A.P. Van den Berg as our current rig. The CPT equipment will be mounted on a 2008 model year Morooka 1500VSD rubber-track rig. These are originally made as off-road dumpers, but the dump bed has been removed and the hydraulic pumps have been modified/replaced to use for this application.

The following picture shows the rig in construction in the Van den Berg shop.