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Pile Driving Equipment

Pile driving equipment is used to drive piles into the ground to provide foundation support for structures. This equipment includes pile rigs to hold and guide piles, pile winches to lift hammers and piles, hanging leaders to suspend rigs from cranes, and hammers like drop hammers and diesel hammers to drive piles. Additional equipment includes helmets to protect pile heads, dollies and packing between hammers and piles to cushion impacts. Proper selection and use of this specialized equipment is crucial for effective and safe pile driving operations during construction.

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Pile Driving Equipment

Pile driving equipment is used to drive piles into the ground to provide foundation support for structures. This equipment includes pile rigs to hold and guide piles, pile winches to lift hammers and piles, hanging leaders to suspend rigs from cranes, and hammers like drop hammers and diesel hammers to drive piles. Additional equipment includes helmets to protect pile heads, dollies and packing between hammers and piles to cushion impacts. Proper selection and use of this specialized equipment is crucial for effective and safe pile driving operations during construction.

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Pile Driving Equipment

WHAT IS PILE?

A pile is a long slender foundation member, made either timber,


structural steel or concrete which might be cast-in-situ or driven and
acts as a structural member to transfer the load of the structure.

TIMBER STEEL PILE CONCRETE PILE COMPOSITE PILE


PILE
PILE DRIVING EQUIPMENT

• Pile driving is a method used to drive piles into the


soil, to provide foundation support for buildings and
structures. Piles can be fabricated from concrete,
timber, or steel.
• The piles act as a structural member to transfer the
load of the structure to a required depth in deep
foundations.
• Driving piles allows a structure to be placed in an
area that would otherwise be unsuitable given the
subsurface conditions.
There are several machines and equipment which are employed for
pile driving during construction. These machines and tools will be
explained in the following sections.
TYPES OF PILE DRIVING
EQUIPMENT
• Piling Rigs
• Piling Winches
• Hanging Leader
• Hammer Guides
• Piling Hammer

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Pile Rigs
• It composed of a series of leaders,
which are consist of tabular element or
hard box, placed and fixed on a crane
base as it can be seen from. Not only
does the leaders support the hammer
and the pile but also guide them when
the pile is forced into the ground.
• Piling rigs are mainly used to
drill/create piles in soil, clay, etc. It is
widely used for cast-in-place piles,
diaphragm walls, and foundation
reinforcement. It consists of a tabular
element or hard box, placed and fixed
on a crane base. 
Pile Winches

• The prime goal of piling winches is to left the


hammer and piles in addition to support
tools that responsible for leader raking and
rotation. It functions with pile frames and
different powering sources such as hydraulic
power, stream; diesel; or petrol engines, and
occasionally electric motors could be applied
for powering winches.

• There are different piling winches with different capacity for instance winches with
double or triple drums possess satisfactory controlling and pile driving speed whereas
one drum winch does not have that advantage. So, the former type would be favored
provided that handing and driving piles with great speed is required.
Hanging Leaders • Hanging leaders are specifically designed to be hanged
from the jib of a crane as shown in the figure. A steel
strut, which its length can be varied as per requirements
of construction site, provides a stiff connection from the
leader foot to the machine bed frame.

• Moreover, it is considerably crucial to pay


adequate attention to the position and
alignment of the leader since any disposition
would lead to hammer eccentric blows
eventually the pile will be either damages or
displace from its original position.
Hammer Leaders
• In situation where it is desirable to dispense
wholly with piling frames or hanging leader,
hammer guides or rope-suspended leaders can
be attached to the piles and the latter are
guided by timber or steel frameworks.

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PILING HAMMERS

• The selection of suitable hammer for a piling


project depends on several factors including the
size and weight of the pile. The driving
resistance which must be overcome to achieve
the design penetration, the available space and
headroom on the site and the availability of the
cranes and the noise restrictions which may be in
force in the locality.
HELMET, DRIVING CAP,
DOLLY AND PACKING

• Steel helmet is placed over the top of the concrete pile in order to hold the
resilient dolly packing which are interposed between the hammer and the pile to
prevent shattering of the latter at the head.

• Dolly is placed in a square recess in the top of the helmet. It is square at


the base and rounded at the top. Elm dollies are used for easy to moderate
driving and for hard driving a hardwood. Plastic dollies car, withstand
much heavier driving than timber dollies.
HELMET, DRIVING CAP,
DOLLY AND PACKING

• Packing is placed between the helmet and the top of the pile to cushion the blow
between the two. Various types of material are used such as hessian and paper
sacking, thin timber sheets, coconut matting, saw dusts in bags and wall board.

• Driving caps are used to protect the heads of steel bearing piles. They are
especially shaped to receive the particular type of pile to be driven and are
fitted with recess for a hardwood or plastic dolly and with steel wedges to
keep the caps tight on the pile. A cheap from of cushioning consists of
scrap wire rope in coils or in the form of short pieces of laid cross-wise in
two layers

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