Without a doubt, one of the most interesting photos Vulcan had in its collection was this one, taken of a Vulcan #0 driving reinforced concrete sheet piles 500 mm x 600 mm x 21.9 m long (20" x 24" x 72') for the New Harbor Wall in Havana, Cuba. The piles are being driven off … Continue reading Pile Driving in Old Havana, Cuba
Above is the differential acting hammer cycle, an explanation from the Raymond Superintendent's Handbook, with some specifications. The cycle is the same for both Raymond and Vulcan hammers. The 65C specifications given above are for the Raymond 65C, not the Vulcan 65C.
An interesting example of late Soviet commercial art (no, that's not an oxymoron) is this one, the cover to the literature for the SP-88 concrete pile cutter, from 1989. The array of cubes on the cover represents square concrete piles; the one in the lower left hand corner has been cut. An interesting graphic presentation. … Continue reading Product Literature Cover for Soviet SP-88 Concrete Pile Cutter @sovietvisuals
Vulcan's success with the 80C lead its customers to ask the same question they asked about the 08: could a larger hammer be fit in the frame. In the case of the 08, there was already the 0R and 010, and the 012, 508, 510 and 512 were to come. As was the case with … Continue reading Vulcan 85C and 100C Hammers: Specifications and Information
The Vulcan 80C was the Super-Vulcan counterpart to the Warrington-Vulcan 08, and was one of the more successful differential-acting hammer sizes Vulcan produced. Specifications are below. Some photos, job and shop, are shown below. Some general arrangements, Chicago and Chattanooga, are shown below.
It's evident that Vulcan had some difficulty in getting the right combination of economy, operating pressure and configuration with its 65C and 65CA hammers. Did Raymond, which made many of its own designs of Vulcan style hammers, do any better? Based on its experience with the Vulcan differential hammers, Raymond designed several differential-acting hammers, including … Continue reading Raymond 65C Hammer: Specifications and Information
The 65C is the counterpart to the Warrington-Vulcan 06 hammer. Upsizing single-acting hammers is a fairly straightforward process as long as the frame is capable of withstanding the load. Doing the same thing with differential-acting hammers such as the 50C is an entirely different matter, as the 65C shows. Specifications are on the general arrangement … Continue reading Vulcan 65C and 65CA Hammers: Specifications and Information
Like its Warrington-Vulcan counterpart, the #1, the 50C was a popular hammer and, along with the 80C, comprised a large block of Vulcan's production of these hammers. Specifications are below. Some general arrangements are below. Note that the hammer in the image above sports a bar-type head while these have a sheave-type head; this is … Continue reading Vulcan 50C Hammer: Specifications and Information
The Vulcan 30C was the differential-acting counterpart to the single-acting #2 hammer. Specifications are below. For use with the wave equation analysis, see GRLWEAP Accessory Specifications for the Vulcan #2 and 30C Hammers. The general arrangements are interesting not just for the 30C but to explain features and variants in the Vulcan product line. Like parent, … Continue reading Vulcan 30C Hammer: Specifications and Information
The 18C is the smallest of the Super-Vulcan hammers, designed to correspond with the Warrington-Vulcan #3. Specifications for the hammer are below. Like the #3, the small size made it lose popularity, and it lasted longer in Vulcan's literature than in active production. One interesting footnote to its history is that the 18C was the … Continue reading Vulcan 18C Hammer: Specifications and Information
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