Kiewit and the “All American”
Post Date: October 13, 2009 at 12:00 am
Reported From: APE Western (CA)
Reported From: APE Western (CA)
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 patent infringement case against New England Const. Products
Post Date: October 9, 2009 at 12:00 am
Reported From: APE Headquarters (WA)
Reported From: APE Headquarters (WA)
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.
Advance Technology Combined with Primal Strength
Post Date: October 5, 2009 at 12:00 am
Reported From: APE Headquarters (WA)
Reported From: APE Headquarters (WA)
Manson was faced with driving some 30″x 1″ wall pipe pile 20′ into the Pacific Northwest Glacial Till lens. The APE Model 600 Super Kong was the tool for the job. Manson geared up for the worst; bringing drilling equipment and impact equipment but neither was needed. The Super Kong was able to drive every pile to grade by simply lowering the vibration speed, this allowed the hammer to chew though the tough till lens in roughly 10 minutes.
