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Alessi Equipment in APE’s dealer for all excavator-mounted equipment. Judlau Construction needed an impact hammer for a low headroom application in Brooklyn, NY. Alessi Equipment mounted an APE 7.5 (only 7.5 feet tall) hammer on a Komatsu PC300LC excavator. Judlau completed the job ahead of schedule!
Call Alessi Equipment in Mount Vernon at 914-699-6300

SPS New England recently purchased an APE D19-42 Diesel Hammer to help construct a temporary bridge across the Merrimack River in Tyngsboro, Mass.

Pictured is SPS using their D19-42 to drive H-Piles for a temporary trestle that will enable them to walk their crane onto the barge so they can build piers in the middle of the river.

Please excuse the raindrops on the camera lens…

N.Y. Concrete has to drive some 12″ H piles for lagging walls in close quarters in Queens. The high frequency J&M 11-23 spinning at 1900 vpm is taking them right to grade with very little vibration to the adjacent structures.

CPM Constructors of Freeport Maine was looking for a vibratory hammer that was light enough for their smaller cranes but still powerful enough to do big jobs. The APE Model 100 Vibratory Hammer was their choice. A 2,200 inch/lb hammer weighing in at 7,900 lbs suspended weight, the Model 100 is the lightest mid-sized vibro on the market. Although it is light, it still is capable of doing big work. The pictures show the Model 100 on CPM’s project at the Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding facility in Thomaston, Maine. CPM is constructing a new boat lift for Lyman-Morse, which includes driving 50ft long PZ35 sheetpiles.

Perfetto Contracting has adapted a J&M 1250 Drill to core out manholes in Mill Basin, Brooklyn, NY.The drill in mounted on a Caterpillar 446 loader/backhoe and doing up to 27 manholes per day!

Cold Spring Construction of Akron, NY was awarded the NY State DOT contract to reconstruct the interchange at US Route 15 and I 86 in Painted Post, NY. This project includes the construction of 3 new bridges and the reconstruction of 2 existing bridges. An APE Model 200 Vibratory Hammer was chosen to drive the sheetpiles for the cofferdams in which the piers for the new bridges will be built.

Spearin Preston and Burrows has started the renovation of the Belt Parkway Bridge over the Paerdegat Basin in Brooklyn. They are using the NEW APE/J&M 416 vibro with a gun-drilled top (eliminates hoses) and are pulling wood piles with the exclusive APE woodpile clamp (affectionately nicknamed the “Woodhead”). The 416 is also driving 14 inch “H” piles using a 126B universal clamp.

Under a NY District Corps of Engineers contract, M.A. Bongiovanni is rebuilding a Hudson River bulkhead at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Bongiovanni utilized their APE 150T vibro to install the sheetpiles and caissons.

APE has completed its full line of variable moment machines by adding the new 250VM to its fleet. Bill Ziadie, formally with PVE, had a hand in the final specifications. He wanted a machine that could deliver more power than any of its European rivals. Bill also wanted a machine that didn’t have all the “bells and whistles” that cause downtime but still has the necessary features that are needed by USA pile drivers. “We made it rugged like all APE equipment but dropped off all those goofy shut down systems that are found on European machines” says John White, owner of APE.

The power unit has the most advanced CAT Electronic engine available.

The APE 250VM has 4500 inch pounds of eccentric moment. It automatically switches in and out of phase during the “on” and “off” cycle. The unit comes with its own monitoring device developed by Profound Ltd based in Holland.

Note in the pictures the close proximity of a storm drainage pipe. The sheets were driven right up against the concrete pipe to allow excavation of the foundation of a new office building. Maximum peak partice velocity readings of less than 12mm/second were recorded at 15ft from the face of the sheet.

For more info call Bill Ziadie at 201 274-3214.

Here are pictures of a D19-42 driving 14×89 H-Piles in Albany NY. August Bohl has driven many of the piles under buildings constructed in Albany in the last few decades and since the mid 1990’s those piles have been driven with APE equipment.

Note that with fixed leads, August Bohl utilizes an APE RHI-14 Round H-Pile Insert so that they can turn the profile of the H-Pile in any direction which keeps them from having to constantly travel the crane so that it is square to the H-Pile flange.