John White will speak next week at the DFI meeting in St. Louis. John will present his version of the fall and rise of the diesel hammer along with other hammer topics.
Mike Mergentime of Merco, Inc. called APE for all of his pile driving equipment needs on the Rt. 202/Washington Ave. Bridge job in Boonton, NJ. An APE 200 Vibro, a D25-32 Diesel Hammer, “King Kong”, and a J&M Model 70 Hydraulic Impact Hammer were all used on this very difficult job.
These are pictures of our APE Quad Kong, the world’s largest vibratory driver, driving piles in China.
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
If you want to know what is going on at APE/J&M then go to “APE Videos” on our home page and select the latest video. See a new video every week, and sometimes twice per week. This is the best way to keep updated on Deep Foundation Technology. Enjoy music mixed by David White and camera work by John White and creative editing by Alex Muck. Got an idea for a video? Call or email us at ape@apevibro.com
MJ Lee uses an APE 150T vibro set up in a set of APE hammer leads and utilizes the speed of this set up by driving the first 60′ x 14″ h-piles with the vibro then splicing the second 60′ h-pile and driving it to grade with an Ape D30/32 diesel hammer. They are building a railroad bridge over the Canadian river in Canadian Texas.
Why do the contractors in Hawaii choose APE for their foundation equipment needs? Because APE is the one stop foundation shop. Healy Tibbit Builders from Honolulu, HI knows this and that is why they use APE.
“We do alot of work here on Ohau and we need equipment that works.” Says Bruce Richardson, Super for Healy Tibbits. “I like to know that when we need the service, I will get it and APE always comes through for me.”
Driving 16″ octagon pile for a parking structure Healy Tibbits uses a APE/Junttan HHK5a to get the job done. They are using the HHK5a because it meets the islands strict noise critera and is simple to operate.
“This is the quietest hammer I have ever used”, says Bruce, “We have used a number of different hydraulic hammers here on the islands and after we used the HHK5a we are convinced that we can drive our pile in even the strictest of sound environments in the world!”
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…
Ferreira Construction is pictured driving 14″ H-piles with an APE D25-32 diesel impact hammer. The job involves the construction of a new bridge (Rt.1) over Conrail railroad tracks. A GRL representative monitoring the pile driving operation commented on how efficiently the hammer operated.
Marine Contracting found an unexpected surprise while excavating for the installation of a new mooring dolphin at “Metro Machine” shipyard, approx. 50 timber piles! These were all below the mudline of the excavation. The contractor decided to use an APE 150-T vibro to drive a “straw” or a 18″ diameter x 50′ steel pipe over the wood piles to break the friction then pulling it back out and hooking a steel choker to the piles and pulling them out. Project Superintendent “Bobby Thompson” tells us, you never know what you will find when you start digging around these old shipyards. The Navy vessel in the background is the “USS Nashville”, a Marine transport vessle. APE Mid-Atlantic is proud to be part of this project.
