2025-08-20
should you stand on a core drill rig while drilling
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The short answer is No. Stand beside it.How to safety stand on your core drill rig. This is a updated post from one of our older websites in Charlotte, NC. (Disclaimer ) These following methods are definely non standard, and possibility dangerous to attempt or implement at any level of experience. When core drilling any slab, sidewalk or floor if possible always use built in safety measures as stated in the manual that accompanied the rig and drill motor when purchsed or rented. Use this advice only if you are an experienced core drill operator, and then only at your own risk. What if I can not use a traditional way to anchor or vaccum base my core drill rig and base plaste to the concrete?If you are a core drill operator for very long you are going to find out that every job, though simular in alot of cases, is different in many others. Sometimes in a days work you may be asked not to attach a concrete anchor into the floor or get vaccum on the floor to suck the core drill base to the floor for various raseons. We have found that more often than not our task that day will include areas we have to free style drill the core drill hole. It is always best to have a plan and a well layed out method for doing free style drilling and the picture above best demostrates the way to accomplish this. Never actually stand on your core drill rigs base when drilling. Always prepare to have a finger on the power switch to immediately cut the power off. It does not take but a second for the rig to suddenly spin faster than you can react. In a perfec...