I had brought this up before but I could not explain exactly what I was hoping to do. I live in an area where the ground is very soft so anything you build (houses, commercial buildings etc.) all have to be in pilings on order to support the foundation from sinking so the structure will stay level. The pilings can range depending on 30 to 60 feet depending on the area and ground surveyor. The idea is to get to the hard clay that can be many feet down so the piling is driven to refusal into the clay. The piling is then cut to level and either a wood raised foundation is built on top or cement foundation is poured on top of the pilings to stop the foundation from settling or failing. I live in a city where you have standard lots that are 50' to 60' wide and many of the houses that were built were built almost the width of the lot so it leaves very little room on the sides. usually large pile driving cranes pre construction drive pilings. If someone wants to add on to their house on build a garage they are not able to get a large pile driver in to build the foundation almost with a gurantee the foundation will fail. This has created a need for avergae size skid steers and small excavators to have attachments that can drive the pilings. The few people who do this in the area are top secret about their attachments that do this. I saw one do this process and they used two attachments. The first was almost like a lumber claw to pick the piling up. So you have a skidsteer that picks up a 50 timber piling in the front yard with this claw that grabs it towards the bottom and then picks it up and rotates it so it is being carried long ways with the top of the piling 50 ft in the air in front of the skid steer. They put the piling in place in the rear yard and with the same attachment lower it pushing it like a stake in the ground. Every time they raise the boom is to grab the piling at the highest point the loader can reach and then lower it as the attachment squeezes the piling. Because the ground is soft it sinks fairly easy until its about 6 feet or so out the ground. After it has all pilings in this manner it gets another attachment that is basically a large post hammer and hammers it to refusal just as a large pile driver would do with new contruction. An example of the post hammer is shown below. I would like to not only have this same set up they are using in this video at the your tube link for my 331 but I would also like to make the set up described above for my 763.
Any idea please let me know:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ok4sodc4FI
Any idea please let me know:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ok4sodc4FI
