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• Excavator mounted mast
• Accommodates any style
of hammer
• Two hydraulic winches
controlled by excavator
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“They’re one of my favourites because that’s what I learned
on and they’re very dynamic rigs,” said Paswisty.
He also has a soft spot for Bauer Pileco’s BG line of drilling
rigs. “The BG 28 is the most stable machine I’ve ever run. It’s
a workhorse,” he said.
Paswisty has also run Liebherr, Yutong and Casagrande
drilling rigs as well as a Junttan PM22 pile driving rig.
In addition to his extensive operating experience,
Paswisty has worked on many different piling applications,
ranging from pipe and H-beam driven piles to drilled piles
up to 1,800 millimetres in diameter with conventional
casing and 1,500-millimetre piles with segmental casing
and oscillators at 30-plus metres in depth. His other appli-cations
include:
• Cast-in-place concrete piling
• Cased secant piling
• Continuous flight auguring piling
• Conventional and segmental casing piling
• Belled piles
When he’s not operating piling rigs on jobsites, Paswisty
is always ready to lend a hand with other work when needed.
“That’s just how it is with the industry. You can’t really
expect to be doing just one thing because if you do, you are
not going to stay busy,” he said.
“You have to be willing to do everything, whether its pile
driving or running loader or whatever. If you are staying busy,
you’re usually doing a little bit of everything.”
Safety paramount
Paswisty maintains safety is paramount on any construction
site, and he knows he’s fortunate to have worked with compa-nies
that maintain high safety standards.
“They look at your credentials and they check in with
people that you’ve previously worked with,” he said. “If they
hear about something unsafe, it goes around very quickly in
this industry.”
Paswisty says his favorite thing about his industry is all the
engineering involved in piling and foundation construction.
“If it wasn’t for us drillers and pile drivers and others like
civil engineers and even pile inspectors, you wouldn't have
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