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WHEN YOU NEED MORE THAN JUST LEADS
Precision Placement
Long Piles or Large Batters
Piling or Drilling
Rental or Purchase
600 Ferguson Avenue North
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8L 4Z9
Tel: 1.905.528.7924 Fax: 1.905.528.6187
Toll Free: 1.800.668.9432 (in Canada and USA)
www.berminghammer.com
Email: bfssales@berminghammer.com
Logistical challenge
Of course, shipping a 92,000-pound piece of equipment halfway
around the world poses something of a challenge. First, it
had to be sent via a cargo ship from Stockholm, Sweden, to
Newark, N.J. It then had to be transferred to a float trailer and
driven to Montreal. All in all, the process took about three
weeks to complete and it went off without a hitch.
Simple in its design and easy to use, the DT145 EC300 is
one of SPD’s top selling machines and can tackle even the
toughest drilling job. With a mast weight of 6,500 kilograms
and measuring 15.5 metres in length with the telescopic section
extended, it attaches to the boom of a Volvo EC300ENL excavator
and delivers 140 kilonewtons of crowd force, making it ideal
for Canada’s extremely challenging surface conditions.
“I think that’s one of the reasons we want to get into
Canada is that you have pretty much the same kind of soil
conditions as in Scandinavia,” Schönberg said. “This is the
perfect machine for that.”
One of the more unique features of the DT145 is the
13-metre stroke that it offers, which is much longer than
what most conventional drill rigs can offer.
“It will give you a 13-metre stroke and I think that was kind
of a game-changer in Scandinavia,” Schönberg said. “Before
that, most companies used machines with a six-metre stroke.
They could only put in six metre casings one at a time. With
our machine you can use a 12-metre casing. It’s much less
time-consuming to make the casings with less joints.”
COMPANY PROFILE
SPD sales rep, Jacob Schönberg at Bauma
Sweden’s FDS AB micropiling with a DT145 EC300
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