I spent a lot of time posting Vibro-Engineering and the Technology of Piling and Boring Work and The Vibration Method of Driving Piles and Its Use in Construction. It’s worth wondering if machines like these (like the one shown above) are still made and used. Wonder no more: the following YouTube video answers that question as an emphatic “yes”:
That includes the electric motor on the suspension, the lever style clamp (Vulcan made one of those for Foster in the early 1990’s) and the coil spring suspension. The posters of the video ineptly referred to it as a “hydraulic” machine when it’s anything but. The manufacturer of this pointed that out and admitted to making it, along with other “interesting piling equipment.”
vulcanhammer.info 
Thank you Don.
I may have asked you this before since I have been looking for a long time, but have you ever seen a photo of E.A.L. Smith? I have not been able to find anyone who has.
Mohamad
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I have never seen one either. The disintegration of Raymond in the 1980’s may have seen the end of this.
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Yes.
I talked to Paul Engling and he never saw a picture of Smith even well before Raymond was dissolved. I asked the folks at Texas A&M too, with no luck.
I recently bought a book that you may find interesting, originally published in 1883, James Nasmyth autobiography.
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That’s a find, it isn’t even in the Internet Archive!
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