The #3 was one of the early (pre-1900) Warrington-Vulcan hammers, along with the #2 and #1. A general arrangement is shown above; specifications are below. The #3 found itself involved in some important projects, including the construction of the original Panama Canal, as evidenced by the memo below. The #3 fell out of favour to … Continue reading Vulcan #3 Hammer: Specifications and Information
No history of the Warrington-Vulcan hammers would be complete without mentioning the 305 and 306 hammers. The primary purposes of these designations was to harmonise them with the way Vulcan had numbered its larger hammers for many years, although these hammers incorporated changes such as cables and the possibility of Vari-Cycle II. The first 306 … Continue reading Vulcan 305 and 306 Hammers: Specifications and Information
The 010 is one of Vulcan's more popular hammers. For many years it was the largest Warrington-Vulcan hammer in the line until the 012. It was an upgrade from the 0R hammer, raising the ram weight from 9,300 lbs. to 10,000 lbs. Another general arrangement of the 010 with the steam belt are shown below. … Continue reading Vulcan 010 Hammer: Specifications and Information
Above, an ad for the Warrington-Vulcan hammer, as featured in Engineering News-Record, 1926. Note that there are two distributors listed: one in California and the venerable Woodard Wight in New Orleans, which (with its salesman Herman Hasenkampf) went on to represent Vulcan in the Gulf during the offshore years. Note also that Vulcan even at … Continue reading Driving Speed That Makes Footage Records
The Vulcan 0R hammer was the same as the #0 except that it had a heavier ram. It was relatively short-lived, its place was taken by the 010 hammer. Specifications for the hammer are shown below.
First produced in 1912, the #0 hammer, although not the first Warrington-Vulcan hammer, is probably, in its own way, the most pervasive in its influence on the development of Vulcan's--and other--product line. The main Chicago general arrangement is above: others are below: Both the design, frame and accessory configuration of the #0 hammer were … Continue reading Vulcan #0 Hammer: Specifications and Information
The 06 hammer is basically a #1 hammer with a 6,500 lb. ram. It uses the same leaders and driving accessories. An 06 at the Chattanooga facility is above, general arrangements of the hammer are below. Specifications for the Vulcan 06 are below. In the late 1970's Vulcan made an important … Continue reading Vulcan 06 Hammer: Specifications and Information
In 1967 Vulcan opened a fabricating facility in West Palm Beach, Florida. Across the street from our new plant was “U and Me Transfer and Storage,” (see photo above) which we hired to move a lot of our machinery. We sent one of our supervisors to Florida to help set the shop up. The shop … Continue reading What We Need is a Light Trailer
This paper–which is part of the STADYN project–was presented at the IFCEE 2018 conference in Orlando, FL, 7 March 2018. The slide presentation for the paper is below.
The completely revised TAMWAVE program is now available. The goal of this project is to produce a free, online set of routines which analyse driven piles for axial and lateral load-deflection characteristics and drivability by the wave equation. The program is not intended for commercial use but for educational purposes, to introduce students to both the wave equation and methods for estimating load-deflection characteristics of piles in both axial and lateral loading.
We have a series of posts which detail the theory behind and workings of the program:
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