Vermeer unveils the PD25R pile driver, engineered to meet the evolving demands of the growing solar market. This new model features a 25-ft (7.6-m) pile driving capability, allowing solar contractors ...

On December 8, 2011, the massive eight-hammer vibratory pile driver hammer dubbed the "Octakong" drove the last of 120, 72-ft.-diameter steel piles into place in front of a crowd of over 200 people ...

Atlas Copco recently supplied a large order of HB2000 hydraulic driving hammers to GeoPile Africa (Pty) Ltd., for use with the Duktus driven ductile iron pile system.GeoPile Africa is the exclusive ...

When the giant hammer strikes, foreman Tommy Green clamps his mouth shut so his teeth won't rattle. Swamy Avasarala, an engineer, feels each blow oscillating up and down his spine, bone by bone. Ted ...

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Driven vertically into the ground, interlocking metal plates known as sheet piles can keep soil from eroding after rainfall, they can serve as retaining walls on slopes, or perform other functions.