TIMBER PILE
UPLIFT ANCHORS
TP-807
TIMBER PILE POINTS
Hard cutting timber pile
points help make any job
run more smoothly and
dependably.
Timber pile points protect
pile tips from failure. Points
will help drive through rubble
and other tough conditions
without undermining the
strength of the pile. Points
are made in one piece of
1/4" low-alloy cast steel.
Advanced Uplift
Resistance Anchors
Our TP-807 timber
anchors are made from
TUFLOY cast steel
(90 ksi tensile, 60 ksi
yield) and are galvanized.
Quick assembly in the
field with just holes
drilled through the pile.
DFP casts integral teeth
into each uplift anchor
to provide extra “bite”
into the timber pile.
A full set is needed for
30 ton uplift and 1/2 set
for 15 ton uplift.
TP-337
PO Box 688 • Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417-0688
201-337-5748 • fax: 201-337-9022 • www.pileline.com
Cast-in-place pile project in northern Ontario, using APE’s HD
Drive head and CFA tooling at a solar panel farm in March 2015
could possibly cause issues. I have a customer that is so keen
on how his machine performs that he can tell by the shaking
of his water bottle, just how smooth the machine is performing.
This is why maintenance, along with proper operation, is
very crucial. We have seen both sides of this; one customer
can get 6,000 hours of life out of a hammer cushion, and the
next can’t get through a single day.”
Patterson says the most common failures that he has seen
in cold weather are with hydraulic hoses, largely caused by
not allowing the oil to heat up fully before operating at full
pressure.
Grindle concurs.
“Anyone in the heavy duty equipment industry knows that
hoses are not immortal,” he said. “We have implemented into
our equipment ‘safeguard features’ to protect the hose bundles
and lines as much as we can. We provide spare hoses in
our spare parts box that go out with every rental, and what is
in the spare parts box is always indicative of the specific job
that the equipment is going to be doing – such as spare sheet
clamp jaws, caisson clamp jaws, wedges for caisson clamps,
pop-off valves, site glass, fuel pump kits, etc. Having this
spare parts box sent with our units provides our client with a
rest assurance of ‘as little downtime’ as possible.”
Patterson adds that in the extreme cold, the steel just
becomes brittle and the fittings cannot take the same abuse
at -40 degrees as they can at -20 degrees Celsius.
“This I why we recommend the use of a high-quality OEM
fitting instead of cheaper imitation,” he said. “The fuel that
often ends up in remote locations can cause a lot of issues
in the cold as well. Water in the fuel is often a cause of headaches.
On Junttan piling rigs, there is a fuel water separator,
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