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Mascaro Construction, Pittsburgh’s premier general contractor, was awarded the David Lawrence Convention Center Riverside Park job, which included driving steel sheeting, beams and pipe piles. In the past, Mascaro would sub out any pile driving work. But project manager Brad McKibben and Superintendent Bob Yeckel thought this would be the perfect job to self-perform. APE Northeast got the call, providing an APE 200 vibro equipped with a caisson beam, caisson clamps, and a caisson to clamp adapter. This adapter facilitates a fast swap out from a sheet clamp to a dual caisson clamp setup. LU 2235 Pile Driving foreman Bob Kerns was impressed with this set-up.

APE NE would like to thank all at Mascaro Construction for trusting APE to provide their pile equipment needs on their first self-performing pile job. Stay tuned-APE will be providing Mascaro Construction with diesel hammers on another job within a few short days. We look forward to a long, mutually rewarding relationship.

If you want to do your best to protect our salmon or other marine life while driving pile, why not choose a vibratory hammer to drive that next underwater pile? With such an emphasis on the environment these days, a recent definitive study commissioned last year by Caltrans on the issue of the effects of pile driving on marine life lists vibrating pile as the best pile driving method to protect Sea Life. In section 2.5 titled: Common Underwater Sound Reduction Measures, vibration of pile is listed as a preferred method to reduce sound in underwater pile driving compared to other pile driving methods. Evidence suggests it is the safest method for wildlife and the only method not to reach the dangerous 183db level. Attached is the entire report which is a must read for all you contractors driving underwater pile. There is also a ton of material about how to best handle underwater noise issues when driving any kind of pile with most types of hammers.

Misener Marine has landed a very nice marine project for a private owner here in Norfolk VA. Misener knew there were a lot of pile driving equipment suppliers in the “Tidewater” area, but they made just 1 phone call to APE Mid-Atlantic in Virginia Beach VA. This job consisted of driving a 300′ of “Combi-Wall” a combination of steel pipe piles & steel sheet piles and 30″ square concrete piles under all of the docks & piers as well as 24″ square concrete piles upland for the combi-wall tie back system. They used APE D62 diesel impact hammers D46 diesel impact hammers, J&M Model 220 hydraulic impact hammers and APE Model 300 vibratory hammers. All has gone very well so far. Overseeing the job is Larry Thornton Operations manager, Johnny Eskins Construction manager and Tim Linden Project manager. Misener Marine knows that all of the APE employees are true experts in the piledriving field, all of them have worked in this business all of their lives. Ask your current pile equipment supplier what they were doing a few years ago. If they were selling forklifts or building kitchen cabinets why are you dealing with them ? APE wishes Misener a safe & productive job. Call your nearest APE branch to see how much they can do for your job…………..GO APE!

The APE southeastern operation has moved to its new facility at Mulberry, Florida. The new 5 acre facility will give APE the largest and most efficient yard in the industry. Also on site is a huge 100,000 square foot building equipped with overhead cranes This large space will permit all weather servicing of APE equipment.
Part of the facility will be equipped for use in manufacturing APE power units and assembling APE vibros. This will be the first APE manufacturing facility in the eastern US and will greatly ease service and shipment to the Caribbean and South American markets.

The yard will be serviced by two cranes, a 150 ton Bucyrus Erie and a smaller American 5299.

The APE Southeast management and crew wish to thank all of the customers who have believed in us and made this progress possible. We look forward to servicing your requirements from the new facility and extend an open invitation to visit us anytime.

“You’re from Jersey? Which exit?” goes the joke, referring to which exit a native New Jerseyan takes off the NJ Turnpike to get home. Superintendent Mark Timari of South State Inc. of Bridgeton NJ needed to drive 18″ pipe piles home for a bridge over the New Jersey Turnpike for the new Exit 7 Interchange. He did the right thing and called APE Northeast for an APE D30, and APE rose to the occasion, delivering a hammer ready to go to work. The D30 performed flawlessly throughout the project.

APE Northeast would like to thank South State for the business.

Please call APE NE for all your pile equipment needs at 888-217-7524.

APE was assigned the task of decorating the sea of cranes at the Port of Anchorage. This challenging task took courage and experience. There were environmental issues, huge tides, weather that varied from sunny and beautiful to snowing sideways, not to mention the 90’ to 120’ flimsy flat sheets that needed to be driven. This took the efforts of (4) APE Model 200-6 Vibratory Hammers.

When it comes to Low Head Room nobody knows it like APE.
APE engineered and developed the model 7.5 hydraulic hammer specifically for low head room applications, but because of the versatility of the 7.5 it is used in many different applications to drive many types of piles such as “H” beam pile, Timber pile, Concrete pile and Pipe pile.
Seen here in the lowest head room configuration, MCM drives 10” H-beam for a trestle on their project in Oakland, CA.
The 7.5 is only seven and a half feet tall making it the shortest hydraulic impact hammer in the world! It has been used across the country driving pile for retrofitting bridges and full length piles in many applications.
With the 7.5 on the job you can get your piles driven and keep your overhead on the lowdown!

The DHJ-85 piledriving rig built for APE by Nippon Sharyo of Japan has now received prototype approval for use in NY City by the NY City department of Buildings. Prototype approval means that our rig can be approved for use on your NY City jobsite with ease.

Call APE Northeast at 1-888-217-7524 for more information.

Kiewit Pacific knows how to drive sheet pile!
There is no doubt about it, when Kiewit drives a sheet wall it is beautiful.
Here on the “All American Canal Project” Kiewit shows how the art of how sheet pile walls can truly be a work of art.
Not everyone who drives sheet pile can manipulate the sheets to do what they want, but the crews working on this project have mastered the art of driving, even in the toughest conditions.
Tight sandy soil conditions on top with dense, tough driving below, make for a nightmare for contractors, but Kiewit has turned this project into a dream.
The APE 200-6 drives the sheets as deep as it can, then the sheets are followed up with a J & M 115 hydraulic impact hammer to reach the tip elevation! The perfect combo for a day in the sheet pile world.
It could be nasty, but with Kiewit on the job, teamed up with APE equipment, turned this ordinarily hard driving project into a walk in the sun!

APE’s law suit against New England Construction Products for patent infringement of its vibratory pile driver/extractor technology has been settled. “This is one down, eight to go” says John White, President and owner of APE. We still have HPSI, Conmaco, Pile Equipment, J&G Sales, Geoquip, Bay Machinery and ECA and one other supplier yet to be named.

APE settled with New England Construction Products and the terms of the settlement are satisfactory to APE and confidential. Details of the case are a matter of public record.

Notice of Electronic Filing

The following transaction was entered on 10/8/2009 at 2:24 PM EDT and filed on 10/8/2009

Case Name:
American Piledriving Equipment, Inc. v. New England Construction Products, LLC

Case Number:
1:08-cv-11090

Filer:

WARNING: CASE CLOSED on 06/03/2009

Document Number:
41

Docket Text:
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered.