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This video shows my departed Father managing a crew of pile driver crews. I did not film it. But when I saw it on you tube, I knew it was dad. Watch the video of a working piledriver. Dad faces the camera on the other side of the piledriver. He signals the piledriver operator sitting up on the far side of the piledriver. If you have a relative also on YouTube, show us please. He has a silver colored hard hat and wears overalls. He can be seen moving.
I also after graduating from high school worked on that same dock area in Stockton, CA and over years worked on that same piledriver on various jobs.
From seeing it work, one might not realize the rig is very dangerous. Years later I got out of that business partly thanks to friends getting killed on the job.
I must correct the actual author. He said the hammer uses compressed air. It actually is driven up and down by steam since on the rear of the piledriver is a large steam boiler.
I also after graduating from high school worked on that same dock area in Stockton, CA and over years worked on that same piledriver on various jobs.
From seeing it work, one might not realize the rig is very dangerous. Years later I got out of that business partly thanks to friends getting killed on the job.
I must correct the actual author. He said the hammer uses compressed air. It actually is driven up and down by steam since on the rear of the piledriver is a large steam boiler.
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