Pile driving work history includes the use of air, diesel and hydrualic powered hammers from monkey sticks, fixed, swinging and fixed swinging leads attached to fixed and hydraulic spotters. Have extensively used Vulcan, Dawson and Delmag models along with ICE and HMC vibratory hammers. As well as backhoes utilizing a Movax attachment. Land based and barge mounted cranes used have included friction, hydraulic and hydraulic over friction, with Manitowoc being the most common, followed closely by Link Belt and American. Piles driven have included H beam to 90 foot, pipe to 200' as a single piece, wooden, concrete and batter pile to 45 degrees. Have stuck and drove sheeting to 60 foot. Other aspects of my piling work have included lagging installation, auger cast, drill and set, micro and pin pile, low clearance, pile splicing, hog rod installation, submerged pilings, tie back installation and testing, installation of bracing and whaler. Pile testing through wave analysis, load and drop testing. Crane set up, disassembly and transport.
I recently completed the piling phase of two Army Corp Shoreline Storm Damage Reduction Projects on Lake Michigan in Chicago for Vista Construction as Piling Superintendent. This position required my direct supervision of three crews consisting of up to 19 pile drivers and 6 operators for the driving of 3800 feet of sheeting, 750 vertical pile and 500 batter pile. Work was completed utilizing two 4000 Manitowoc cranes to attach whaler sections to false work prior to sticking and driving sheets. Sheeting was then cut to grade and batter piling was driven with the base of the leads resting on the sheeting wall via an attached rocker plate system I designed and fabricated specifically for the job site conditions. This rocker plate system also proved to be very effective in holding the vertical piling square to the drive line. Production averaged 24 pairs of 54' PZ 27 sheeting driven and 6 each 75' batter piles every 20 hours under applicant's supervision with 0 lost time accidents.
Employed for piling operations with the following companies:
Bo-Mac - Piling Superintendent
City Services - Pile Driver - Foreman
Vista Construction - Piling Superintendent
Thatcher Engineering - Pile Driver - Foreman
Schanbel Foundation - Pile Driver - Foreman
Walsh Construction - Pile Driver - Foreman
Thomas Madden Co. - Lead Pile Driver
Case Foundation - Pile Driver
Lake States Engineering - Pile Driver
Belvidere Construction - Pile Driver
Superior Construction - Welder
Edward E Gillen Co. - Welder
Herlihy Mid Continental - Pile Driver
Berkel & Co. Contractors - Pile Driver
The pictures to the right are of site conditions and work in progress on Vista's Fullerton Avenue storm reduction project, the Collyer tank in Grand Bahama for Pirates of the Caribbean episodes 2 and 3.
