{"id":5303,"date":"2016-09-22T13:54:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T17:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcconstruction.com\/blog\/?p=5303"},"modified":"2022-06-07T12:30:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T16:30:47","slug":"driller-mike-makes-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcconstruction.com\/news\/driller-mike-makes-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Driller Mike Makes Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pcconstruction.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TBM3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5305 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pcconstruction.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TBM3.jpg\" alt=\"tbm3\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcconstruction.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TBM3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pcconstruction.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TBM3-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today the 400-foot tunnel boring machine (TBM) was officially christened with the name Driller Mike moments before PC Construction started the engine to launch his five-mile journey to the Chattahoochee River.<\/p>\n<p>Over 700 submissions were received in the crowd-sourced naming contest. The other finalists were Peach Beast and Scarlett.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly of the massive 12 \u00bd-foot-diameter TBM began in late June when the main beam arrived on one of more than 30 tractor trailers that hauled the machine\u2019s components from Ohio to Atlanta over a two-month period. Weighing in at over 853,000 pounds, Driller Mike will eat up to 80 feet of rock per day, resulting in four months to make the trek to Hemphill Water Treatment Facility and another 10 months to reach the Chattahoochee River.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more to come from Driller Mike and follow his journey on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/driller_mike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@driller_mike<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5307 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pcconstruction.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TBM5.jpg\" alt=\"tbm5\" width=\"1200\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcconstruction.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TBM5.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pcconstruction.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TBM5-768x497.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5304 size-full\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pcconstruction.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TBM2.jpg\" alt=\"tbm2\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcconstruction.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TBM2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pcconstruction.com\/app\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TBM2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the 400-foot tunnel boring machine (TBM) was officially christened with the name Driller Mike moments before PC Construction started the engine to launch his five-mile journey to the Chattahoochee River. Over 700 submissions were received in the crowd-sourced naming contest. The other finalists were Peach Beast and Scarlett. Assembly of the massive 12 \u00bd-foot-diameter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[35,32],"class_list":["post-5303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-cmar","tag-water-wastewater-treatment"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Driller Mike Makes Debut - PC Construction<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pcconstruction.com\/news\/driller-mike-makes-debut\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Driller Mike Makes Debut - PC Construction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today the 400-foot tunnel boring machine (TBM) was officially christened with the name Driller Mike moments before PC Construction started the engine to launch his five-mile journey to the Chattahoochee River. 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