Facts About Pile Driver Sales

By Kevin Cooper


A pile driver is a mechanical device used to drive piles into the soil. Piles are a type of foundation used in unstable soils to offer stability to buildings. Piles can be made up of timber poles, steel and even concrete. The piles are then driven deep into the soil till they reach the bedrock in order for them to provide stability. This is what one should know concerning pile driver sales.

The devices were invented during the industrial revolution. The revolution was marked by various things including mechanization, discovering of new construction methods and new construction materials. Mechanically sound drawing a pile driver appeared at around fourteen seventy-five. After that came the steam drivers which became so popular and spread throughout the world. Though it is not clear as to which person invented it but some believe that it was invented by Loch Tay in Scotland.

The machines come in different types, ancient drivers used animal labor to raise heavy weights. This happened by use of pulleys which dropped weight at the terminal of the pile, this weight was used to drive the piles into the soil. In the modern day, this equipment utilizes different methods to lift weight and direct the piles.

Some of the methods used include diesel hammer. Drivers that use this method are made of huge two-stroke engines fuelled by diesel. The piston makes the weight in this case and it is connected to the top cylinder. The top cylinder is placed to the top of pile. Auxiliary means are used to raise the weight at the beginning of driving cycle.

A cable attached to the crane that holds the equipment provides the secondary support. The driver draws air inside the cylinder making the diesel be injected in to the cylinder. Quick release method is used to drop the weight on top of the pile. The air and fuel mixture is compresses using the weight of piston heating the mixture to the boiling of diesel fuel.

As ignition occurs to the mixture, it transfers the energy of falling mass to the head of pile, driving it into the ground. The process repeats itself until the piles are completely driven underground. For the manual variants of drivers, the piston is raised to a place where the trip releases the piston automatically. This allows it to collapse by force of gravity. When the piston falls it gets the fuel pump activated, which discharges some metered amount of fuel pump.

As the pump is activated it discharges a metered amount of fuel in the ball pan of impact block. The falling piston thus blocks exhaust ports and fuel compression that is trapped inside the cylinder starts. The compressed air will exert pre-load force which holds impact block strongly against the pile and drive cap.

Piston will then strike onto the impact block causing atomization of fuel and beginning the weighty piles on a downward movement. The strike of the piston ignites the fuel resulting to an explosion that exerts an even bigger force on the pile that is already moving down. This drives it further downwards into the ground.




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