HUSH PLEASE - DROPHAMMER RIG DRIVING SHEET PILES

THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES THE HUSH PILING RIG, A DROP HAMMER RIG THAT WILL DRIVE SHEET PILES IN ANY TYPE OF GROUND TO NOISE LIMITS WITHIN THOSE RECOMMENDED IN THE WILSON REPORT ON NOISE. THE RIG CONSISTS OF A DROP HAMMER OPERATED FORM A STANDARD CRANE GUIDED WITHIN A VERTICL RECTANGULAR BOX MOUNTED ON RAILS. THE BOX COMPRISES A FRAME WHICH ALIGNS BOTH HAMMER AND PILE PRECISELY IN THE SAME PLATE AND WHICH IS ENCLOSED BY A SPECIAL SOUND-MUFFLING CLADDING. /TRRL/

• Publication Date: 1971-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 141-2
• Serial:
  • Contract Journal /UK/
  • Volume: 244
  • Issue Number: 4810

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Noise control; Pile hammers; Sheet piling
• Subject Areas: Construction; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00215087
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 18 1972 12:00AM