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ICDS EHWD Selected Photos

PSL produced the major modules of the ICDS Enhanced Hot Water Drill. Click on the url below to go to the ftp directory, or on any of the thumbnail images below to look at a larger single image. (Note that these images vary from about 50 kbytes to over 1000 kbytes each so download times will vary.)

[EHWD Selected Photos (thumbnails)] [EHWD Selected Photos FTP directory] [Hot water hose drum being lifted off truck] [Unpainted end frames mounted to skis] [High pressure pump mobile drilling structure] [Moving a mobile drilling structure] [Large hose reel being painted] [Large hose reel being painted] [Preheat mobile drilling structure] [Assembling large hose reel's skis to end frames] [Assembling large hose reel's drum to end frames] [Assembling large hose reel's flanges to drum] [Welding the flanges] [RWS mobile drilling structure interior] [RWS mobile driling structure exterior] [Shipping the large hose reel drum from PSL on flatbed truck] [Shipping the large hose reel's frame parts from PSL on flatbed truck] [Shipping the large hose reel's skis from PSL on flatbed truck] [EHWD hose reel parts after arrival near South Pole] [EHWD hose reel drum offloaded from plane near South Pole] [EHWD hose reel drum on crane during reassembly near South Pole] [EHWD hose reel drum reinstall on sled] [EHWD hose reel at the end of a day of reassembly near South Pole] [EHWD hose reel during completion of reassembly near South Pole] [EHWD hose reel after reassembly near South Pole] [EHWD hose reel under tow near South Pole] [Unloading an empty mobile driling structure shell at PSL]

PSL also designed, produced, shipped, assembled and demonstrated onsite the standalone electric firn drill in 2006.

[Firn drill]
Firn drill unpacked & reassembled in Antarctica, prior to first polar use.