Abstract: A device for handling drill string components with respect to a drill rig. A gripper is configured to grip a first drill string component to be threaded on to or off from a second drill string component being part of a drill string which is partly drilled into a rock formation. A handling unit includes the gripper is movable between a drill string position and a loading position wherein a drill string component can be brought into or taken out from the gripper. The handing unit includes auxiliary engagement unit configured to align the gripped first drill string component to essentially in line with an axial direction defined by the second drill string component. The gripper and the auxiliary engagement unit are adjustable for gripping drill string components of different dimensions with maintained alignment of gripped drill string components.

Abstract: A submerging ramming arrangement has a housing, an impacting body axially displaceable in the housing for delivering ramming impacts against a ramming pile, a hydraulic drive for displacing the impacting body in the housing, a hydraulic cylinder-and-piston unit arranged in an upper portion of the housing and having a cylinder, a piston sealingly displaceable in the cylinder and subdividing the same into first and second chambers, a piston rod connected with the piston and having a portion extending from the first chamber coaxially outwardly beyond the cylinder, a holding element for mounting the arrangement on a supporting element and provided on the outwardly extending portion of the piston, a hydraulic accumulator communicating with the first chamber of the cylinder-and-piston unit and arranged for receiving excess hydraulic medium under pressure, and an indicating element actuated by the piston of the cylinder-and-piston unit within a predetermined distance from a respective end of the cylinder-and-piston