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  2. Pile driver - Wikipedia

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    Vibratory pile hammers contain a system of counter-rotating eccentric weights, powered by hydraulic motors, and designed so that horizontal vibrations cancel out, while vertical vibrations are transmitted into the pile. The pile driving machine positioned over the pile with an excavator or crane, and is fastened to the pile by a clamp and/or bolts.

  3. List of construction trades - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of trades in construction. Bell hanger installs mechanical and electrical bell systems; Boilermaker, works in nuclear, oil and gas industry, shipyards, refineries, and chemical plants, on boilers, pressure vessels, and similar equipment. Carpenter, a craftsperson who performs carpentry, building mainly with wood. [1]

  4. Piling - Wikipedia

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    Splicing timber piles is still quite common and is the easiest of all the piling materials to splice. The normal method for splicing is by driving the leader pile first, driving a steel tube (normally 60–100 cm long, with an internal diameter no smaller than the minimum toe diameter) half its length onto the end of the leader pile.

  5. Steam donkey - Wikipedia

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    Steam donkeys were also found to be useful for powering other machines such as pile drivers, slide-back loaders (also known as "slide-jammers", cranes which were used to load logs onto railroad cars and which moved along the flat-bed rail cars that were to be loaded [25]), and cherry pickers (a sled-mounted crane used for loading, onto railroad ...

  6. Jackhammer - Wikipedia

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    Note it is adding the weight of the forward half and boom of the machine to aid the driver's effectiveness. Skid-steer jackhammer A hydraulic breaker may be fitted to heavy equipment such as an excavator or backhoe , and is widely used for roadwork, quarrying, construction sitework, and general demolition. [ 22 ]

  7. Category:Engineering vehicles - Wikipedia

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    Engineering or Construction vehicles are heavy-duty vehicles, specially designed for executing construction (Civil engineering) tasks, most frequently, ones involving earth moving.

  8. Pile barrage - Wikipedia

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    Pile barrages, [1] [2] among other names (see § Terminology), are underwater barricades or barrages for coastal defence, constructed out of piling, vertical poles or stakes driven into the bed of a waterway, up to, or above the water line, blocking watercraft from crossing over, negating passage.

  9. Excavator - Wikipedia

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    This type of machine is now widely used throughout the world. Hydraulic excavator controls illustration, color of the control matches the moving part There are two main types of control configuration used in excavators to control the boom and bucket, each distributing the four primary digging functions across two x-y joysticks.