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WC Fore Trucking and Construction of Gulfport Mississippi was awarded the latest contract for the Port of Gulfport expansion. The job consists of driving roughly 2 million feet of wick drain. Mr. Fore contacted several wick installing companies in the USA to drive the wick but decided to buy one of the APE wick machines and using his own equipment and personel drive the wick on his own. Even though he has never installed wick before he is still installing up to 15,000 feet per day.

Jim Bushyeager has been appointed regional manager of APE Southeast. He joined APE on January of 2004 along with Jim Casavant. Wally Brusmey heads up the APE Jacksonville, Florida branch.

Jim Bushyeager has added Rock Davis (formally with Sunbelt and ICE) to the service department to team up with Dave Husted. Rocky has added two service people to round out the service department.

APE has been expanding the Florida facility since January of 2004 in order to handle the increase in sales and rental activity.

The expansion includes a heavy dose of J&M machines, since both Jim Bushyeager and Jim Casavant have been selling that product line for many years.

Bushyeager, Casavant, and Brumsey are driving to show that APE and J&M are the true innovators of the industry. A good look at the 416B (see the photo with this article) which shows a gun drilled top plate and many new updates to the older 416.

Please call Jim Bushyeager at 386-503-3427 for the lastest developments at APE Southeast.

The APE Model 170 VM or variable moment machine with 2200 inch pounds of tungsten loaded eccentric moment was shipped to Savannah,Georgia.

The contractor’s crane operator said the new machine is so smooth off the crane line that he has trouble telling when the machine is on or off.

The new APE Model 170 is lighter and more powerful than any other variable moment machine on the market. It features a phase shifter that also transfers torque to the other two eccentrics, thus eliminating the need for two hydraulic motors. The Model 170 is a larger brother to the APE Model 120 but smaller than the APE Model 250. For more information on the APE variable moment machines please call Wally Brumsey at
904-923-4489.

Ebsary Foundations is currently using two Model 300 Vibros on its massive job in Miami. One Model 300 is set up with a heavy duty suppressor to handle the difficult coral rock. A special clamp was designed to grip the AZ 26 sheet piles in two places. For more information please call Jim Casavant at 863-660-8716

APE California “Buck School” trains Pile Bucks in the most advanced training class availible to the local 34 in RioVista, CA. “These guys are tough and we make them even tougher and give them some knowledge to take away with them”.

IMECO Austria, (APE Middle East Distributor) sent in these photos of our Model 150 at work. Karl Pacik is visiting the site this week. The customer is driving 5000 linear meters of sheet piles, length 6-10 m and he is very happy with our machine.

Good Work Karl!

APE was featured on the Discovery Channel on Monday March 23, 2004. You can see the video by going back to our home page and clicking on “APE Videos” which is located in the upper left hand corner of our home page. See the Quad Kong drive 40 foot diameter concrete piles. Enjoy the video. If you have any trouble viewing the video then call 253-872-0141 and ask for Jeff. Jeff is our in house computer tech and he can help you with all types of computer related problems. You can also email Jeff at jsmith@apevibro.com

John Josslin with DBM Contractors has been contracted by Quigg Brothers Construction to install 9′ diameter permanent casing for a bridge over the Wickshaw River.

John chose the Largest single gearbox driver/extractor in the world with the APE Quad Clamp System because the specified casing thickness was light and the three foot minimum penetration in the sandstone for the tip elevation was required and if the SuperKong couldn’t do it- nothing could.

Once the casing was driven to the sandstone it took 15 minutes at a lower frequency to hammer the casing to tip. For more information on the Quad Clamp System call the APE Kent, WA Factory.

Rod Gowdy, Superintendent for the Terminal 46 Port of Seattle repair, drives 24” octagonal concrete piles with an APE D62 using their air actuated throttle similar to the APE hydraulic throttle giving infinite control over the amount of fuel injected into the combustion chamber per stroke. For more information on this throttle please contact your local APE representative.

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.