Alessi to Distribute ROBOVIB
Post Date: September 26, 2004 at 12:00 am
Reported From: APE Northeast (NJ)
Reported From: APE Northeast (NJ)
R. Alessi Equipment based right here in Mount Vernon, New York, will be the national distributor of the ROBOVIB, APE’s new robotic vibro. The ROBOVIB is mounted on an excavator and can articulate to pick and drive H piles and sheets. Alessi has always been APE’s excavator mounting specialist. APE technology and innovation linked with Alessi’s experience-a winning combination.
HF Darling Gets Some Good News…
Post Date: September 24, 2004 at 12:00 am
Reported From: APE Northeast (NJ)
Reported From: APE Northeast (NJ)
HF Darling of Williamsville, NY just got some good news… No they didn’t save a bunch of money by switching to Geico… What they did do was increase production on the new Geico office building in Buffalo, NY by switching to a new J&M Model 82 Hydraulic Impact Hammer. The J&M Model 82 uses the same chassis as the J&M 115 HIH, except the ram weight is reduced to 8,200 lbs. This gives the 82 HIH 32,800 ft/lbs of energy.
Darling was driving 10×42 H-Piles for this project. Since full energy was not needed, Darling was able to utilize the fully adjustable stroke control on the J&M 82 HIH and dial in the needed energy to match the parameters of this specific job.
This versatility allows all J&M hammers to be utilized on jobs with different pile types and capacities.
Pile Contractors Builds the World’s Largest Man Made Log Jam to Control Mother Nature
Post Date: September 13, 2004 at 12:00 am
Reported From: APE Headquarters (WA)
Reported From: APE Headquarters (WA)
The Hoh River, on the peninsula of Washington State, drains an average of 152 inches of rain a year from the Hoh Temperate Rain Forest to the Pacific Ocean. Every year the river damages the roadway linking Port Angeles with Aberdeen with some years worse than others.
Pile Contractors has a very tight working window based upon Salmon runs and workable weather days and with their years of experience in foundations, they have the ingredients to make it happen. Three Model 200 Driver/Extractors-one of which they own-utilize 100% readily biodegradable vegetable hydraulic oil. The hammers are driving the sheets, soldier piles and log jam H-beam anchors with their Berminghammer single acting impact hammer driving the anchors to final tip elevation.
Many countries around the world will be following the performance of these log jams over the next few seasons with the hope that these measures will reduce maintenance in remote locations such as this while benefiting the habitat.
For more information on environmentally friendly equipment give APE a call.
Simpson & Brown with “Super Kong”
Post Date: September 9, 2004 at 12:00 am
Reported From: APE Northeast (NJ)
Reported From: APE Northeast (NJ)
When Bob Anttonen and Bob Branston of Simpson & Brown, Cranford, NJ needed to drive 71″ diameter, 2″ wall, 105′ long caissons for IMTT, they called APE Northeast. APE supplied a model 600 Vibro, affectionately dubbed “Super Kong”, with the patented Quad Beam clamping system which grabs the caisson at 90 degree intervals. The configuration successfully drove all 4 cans for this phase of the job in 1 day.
The second phase involved driving 2 84″ diameter 1.5″ wall 110′ long caissons over existing 72″ caissons.
Simpson & Brown traces its roots back to 1671 when the Brown brothers came over from Liverpool. Years of experience make Simpson & Brown one of the most respected pile driving contractors around.
