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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.

C.D. Perry of Troy, NY is rebuilding a bulkhead on the Hudson River in Albany, NY. Using their own HMC Model 25 vibratory hammer (J&M Model 22-23), Perry rented a 3 ft caisson beam and 2 J&M Model 80 Caisson Clamps to drive 140 ft long, 24 in OD, 1 in wall steel pipe weighing over 34,000lbs for the bulkhead as well as 140 ft long, 16 in OD, 1/2 in wall pipe for a loading platform. The Model 25 was able to seat the pipes into the dense layer above the rock, and the pipes were then seated into the rock with an APE D36-32 diesel hammer.

On August 9, 2004 , MBEC ( CHINA ZHONG-TIE MAJOR BRIDGE ENGINEERING GROUP CO.,LTD) drove down the first steel casing into the Yangtzu River with APE Tandem Model 400 Vibro . The steel casing is 2.8 meter in diameter, 20 mm in thickness and 42 meters in length. The first part of the casing is 27 meter long. After driving down the first part, they welded up the second part which is 15 meter. The casing was driven 35 meter into the soil. MBEC will drive 40 casings ea for two piers of Su-Tong Bridge.

Kirk with Ruskin Construction is installing 700 wood piles for the Sooke Bridge Retrofit Project on Vancouver Island. Because of the limited headroom, conventional methods for installing the piles located under the active bridge would not work. The shortest hydraulic impact hammer available on the market was the best choice.

Kirk and his crew assembled the equipment making use of all available headroom-right down to the inch.

The 7.5 low headroom hydraulic impact hammer can be installed on an excavator or forklift in leads or flying.

Call your local APE/J&M office for more information on how APE can help your bottom line!

And See Latest News Below Regarding Super Large Piles the APE Tandem 400 is Installing on the Largest Bridge in the World. Scroll Down This Page to Read Whats Happening in China.

Using their APE 200T Driver/Extractor and Stabcat’s patented Stomper composite sheet pile mandrel, Laskey-Clifton installs 41′ long FRP fiberglass panels for a wetland dam in North Bend, OR. The two-stage template allows for easy interlock handling and precise vertical axis control.

Gene Cole with Knutson Diesel needed a piledriving leader system and hammer that could be cost effective for a small number of piles they needed to install at a Coos Bay Waste Water Treatment Plant.

Having only two available lines on his crane and the cost of a fixed leader not in the budget, two pendant lines from the crane boom to the top of a mid section of lead priced out just right. This freed up the lines to allow for a hammer and pile line.

A drag line was used to control the leads for pile splicing. By retracting the bottom of the leads, the need to lay down the leads to pick up and process the pile was eliminated.

Hammer: APE D12-42 with a standard throttle and small pipe insert.
Pile: minimum 65’x12 3/4″ x .375-wall conical tipped pipe pile for minimum 35 ton bearing.

Manson Construction installs 24″ pipe dolphin for the JA Jacks Concrete Facility in South Seattle, WA.

The 200-6 and 200-6T is THE hammer for your large diameter dolphin piles, heavy concrete pile extraction and high blowcount driving when the Kong is not available.

This hammer ranges in energy from 6,600 to 8,000 inch pounds and 150-tons of line pull utilizing our patented heavy metal technology and our patented two-stage suppressor.

With its unmatched dynamic force, 100% biodegradable vegetable hydraulic oil and revolutionary electronic engine APE engineering will get your job done.

The 815 Vibratory Pile Driver/Extractor with Model 570 Power Unit has been put back into production. The 812 and later updated version called the 815, was invented by King Evarts of J&M Hydraulics. J&M introduced the 812 in 1974. The 815 was replaced years ago by the newer designed Model 44 but this hammer is too wide to fit on many sheet pile sections. The machine has been updated with new features but still retains its narrow profile. Sale price for Vibratory Pile Driver, Extactor, sheet clamp, and Model 570 power unit is $225,000. Call APE or J&M for prices.

When Tony Cardoso and Tony Alves of Cruz Construction, Holmdel, NJ needed a small vibro to drive 24″ wide flat sheets for a circular cofferdam, APE NE got the call. The APE 50 Vibro was the tool of choice for its power versus weight, as the next phase of the job involves quite a long reach. The Pompton Lakes Dam job is an Army Corps of Engineers flood remediation project.

Offshore Specialty Fabricators used the APE model 300 vibro to pull 48″ x 40′ x 2″ wall pipe piles in 150′ of water. Howard Touchet was very pleased with the performance of the Ape vibro. It took anywhere from 3 to 5 minutes to extract each pile. The APE vibro is the only vibro available that you can use in that water depth with out pumping air to the transmission as you let it down and releasing it as you bring it up which often results in blown seals that allows the transmission to fill with water.