I know this video made the rounds by email and on Geoengineer a while back, but I haven’t posted it here. It shows a novel way of installing piles in softer soil. Those guys have some nice rhythm! Happy Friday.
Rockman's Ramblings
Landslide Video But Not What You Think
There is nothing funny about landslides, particularly when you consider the tremendous loss of life that happens all the time around the world, most recently in Taiwan, China, Sierra Leone and elsewhere. But the well known humor site, the Onion has taken a pretty good crack at this usually unfunny subject in their video “news” clip Reporter In Helicopter Pretty Sure Landslide Down There Somewhere. Its a very amusing video that’s really about journalists and their attempts to get the scoop about a story, not really about landslides at all. Click through for the embedded video. Happy weekend. […]
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Video: Hayward Baker’s Wet Soil Mixing at Community Memorial Hospital
To keep the loose soils beneath a planned hospital from liquefying and damaging the foundations during the design earthquake, Hayward Baker stabilized the site by performing wet soil mixing. In addition, HB installed tie down […]
Miscellaneous
[Fixed] Video: Keller Geotechnical installing Ground Anchors at Gainsboro
Nothing too exciting here, but geotechnical videos are kind of few and far between, so I like to share them. It looks like its some kind of anchored sheet pile wall.
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So….would we call that a 6 MP (man power) vibratory hammer? If we consider it an impact hammer, what is the rated energy? 😉
I like it. And if you run into a stiffer material, you just put on some speed metal music! 😀