The Vulcan 08 was an upgrade from the venerable #0, increasing the ram weight from 7,500 lbs. to 8,000 lbs. The 08 experienced the upgrades of the other Warrington-Vulcan hammers, including cables and the Vari-Cycle, as shown above. (The cables shown above used the tapered lower fittings and are to the head; later Vulcan 08 … Continue reading Vulcan 08 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
It's always good for geotechnical professors and practitioners alike to think about where our industry has been and where it’s headed. A little while back three of our most eminent people (Garland Likins, Bengt Fellenius and Robert Holtz) came together and wrote an excellent piece for the 2Q 2012 issue of the Pile Driver (the … Continue reading A Sea Fight in a Fog: Revisiting the ASCE Controversy about Dynamic Formulae
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
In early 1994 I went to Russia for the purpose of visiting a factory in Bryansk, which is located at the meeting point of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. This was not a factory producing high tech military hardware, but something more prosaic but important for our modern world: diesel pile driving equipment, used in the … Continue reading Half a Million Roubles. Is it Enough?
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
The #1 is, in many ways, the "flagship" of the line. Produced from the beginning of the Warrington-Vulcan hammers, it was and is a popular hammer. The last Chicago general arrangement is above; other general arrangements are below. Various versions of the specifications for the #1 are shown below. Other information about the … Continue reading Vulcan #1 Hammer: Specifications and Information
Our family business' first trip to the then Soviet Union was an interesting experience. Our objective was to sell the Soviets (as they were called then) our offshore pile driving equipment for their offshore oil production work. Their idea was to get us to sell their diesel pile driving equipment and other Soviet technology in … Continue reading Who’s this idiot? That’s me!
The #2 was one of the earliest "Warrington-Vulcan" single-acting hammers to be produced. The first one was S/N 6, made for the Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad Company. The general arrangement for the hammer is above. The first extant layout of the Vulcan #2 Hammer, dated 9 February 1887. It's probably the first extant layout … Continue reading Vulcan #2 Hammer: Specifications and Information
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