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Contractor uses oil-well bit to install precast piles
Twelve-ton churn drill was designed and built from two solid steel, 14-in. diam propeller shafts to bore holes in rock for piles; piles, 20 in. sq were of precast, prestressed concrete and each had protruding from its end 10-ft long steel tip to serve both as spud and anchor; holes had to be filled with concrete to center precast pile in it; steel tip served as centering point as well as anchor, particularly on batter piles.
Contractor uses oil-well bit to install precast piles
Twelve-ton churn drill was designed and built from two solid steel, 14-in. diam propeller shafts to bore holes in rock for piles; piles, 20 in. sq were of precast, prestressed concrete and each had protruding from its end 10-ft long steel tip to serve both as spud and anchor; holes had to be filled with concrete to center precast pile in it; steel tip served as centering point as well as anchor, particularly on batter piles.
Contractor uses oil-well bit to install precast piles
Eng News-Rec
Engineering News-Record ; 174
1965
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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