From age 19 until age 27, I did this job

[Robert W]

I not only worked on that same piledriver, so did my father who was the boss directing the crew on this job. Watching it drive piling surely bores many, working on the rig does not bore anybody. Dad is on the opposite side where the operator can see him. I was not there that day but several years later, I also worked near that site in Stockton driving piles into the ground. I stopped working on them to open my machine shop. The pay was excellent, but we traveled all over north California which was terrible.

The party who posted the YouTube said the piledriver drove piling with compressed air. It actually used steam generated by the large boiler on the back of the piledriver.
The 6,500-pound hammer is hitting 60 blows per minute, and the steam is shown as the hammer is visible moving up and down. Steam raises it and also drives the hammer down.

 

[Vrenn]

I not only worked on that same piledriver, so did my father who was the boss directing the crew on this job. Watching it drive piling surely bores many, working on the rig does not bore anybody. Dad is on the opposite side where the operator can see him. I was not there that day but several years later, I also worked near that site in Stockton driving piles into the ground. I stopped working on them to open my machine shop. The pay was excellent, but we traveled all over north California which was terrible.

The party who posted the youtube said the piledriver drove piling with compressed air. It actually used steam generated by the large boiler on the back of the piledriver.

What I worked on constructing before I was forced into the military.

Delta Co. Holley Sugar

It used to have a very large Sugar Beet Factory next to it. BTW, the silos are for sale if anyone can figure out how to transport them. This is one of the cases of it's just too well built to tear down or move.

 

[Dr.Destructo]

I not only worked on that same piledriver, so did my father who was the boss directing the crew on this job. Watching it drive piling surely bores many, working on the rig does not bore anybody. Dad is on the opposite side where the operator can see him. I was not there that day but several years later, I also worked near that site in Stockton driving piles into the ground. I stopped working on them to open my machine shop. The pay was excellent, but we traveled all over north California which was terrible.

The party who posted the youtube said the piledriver drove piling with compressed air. It actually used steam generated by the large boiler on the back of the piledriver.

You must have been ripped, with a real red neck!!!

One of my Uncles used to work for the City of Lubbock, doing repair work around the city......mostly roads.
He was in constant fashion of having a red neck!! LOL

 

[Muhammed]

When I was 19 I was pouring concrete for a living. Still doing it today.

 

[Robert W]

You must have been ripped, with a real red neck!!!

One of my Uncles used to work for the City of Lubbock, doing repair work around the city......mostly roads.
He was in constant fashion of having a red neck!! LOL

You get strong pretty fast working on piledrivers. We drove piling for bridges for highway work.

 

[BackAgain]

When I was 19 I was pouring concrete for a living. Still doing it today.

Bodies don’t bury themselves?