Hydracrat
18a Biggar Road, Cleland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Hydracrat is the home to the renowned HYCAT drilling rig fleet which are all designed, assembled and maintained in-house by our dedicated team.

Hydracrat is the home to the renowned HYCAT drilling rig fleet which are all designed, assembled and maintained in-house by our dedicated team.

Hydracrat was founded back in February 1960 to establish itself as a leading ground investigation contractor. From the 1970s, Hydracrat performed a key role in proving Scotland’s largest and most successful open cast coal sites.

Our primary advantage was that we had the expertise to design and build our own drilling machines onto purpose built low ground pressure wide tracked vehicles called HYCATs which were used predominantly by British Coal to prove Scotland’s open cast coal reserves under very thick peat bogs up and down the country.