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Nationwide piling contractor Steel Pile Installations recently took delivery of a new excavator mounted Fambo HR2750 piling hammer complete with PR1100 leader. The equipment was fitted onto one of SPI's New Holland E385 hydraulic excavators.

Pictured here back driving sheet piles interlocked with tubular piles for a combi wall the hammer has a ram weight of 2750 kgs with 28500 nM of energy and a stroke of 1.2 m. Fambo's specially designed lead filled hammer bodies are extremely efficient as the "dwell" time of the piston on the anvil is greater compared to steel resulting in a greater level of energy transfer to the pile.

Fambo hammers are suitable for driving pre cast concrete, steel tubular, H section, timber and sheet piles and are available with ram weights from 500 to 10000 kgs.

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Swansea based Kaymac Marine & Civil Engineering recently placed an order with us to supply a 30 tons capacity IHI CCH300T telescopic crawler crane to work on a barge in the river at Conwy in North Wales.

The crawler crane was used to dismantle units from the railway tunnel and access from the water was the only option. The telesopic crawler crane was perfect for the application as once the work was done the operator was able to retract his boom and the barge could be tugged under the bridge, whereas a traditional lattice boom crawler crane would have required de-rigging.

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AGD Equipment regularly hire heavy duty crawler cranes to piling contractors for mounting bored piling rigs on. Pictured here is one of our 70 tons capacity heavy duty IHI DCH700 hydraulic crawler cranes fitted with a Soilmec RT3/S on hire to Carillion Piling at a project in Birmingham.

The 17 tons free fall winches with heavy duty friction clutches and brakes fitted to the IHI DCH700 crawler crane make it an ideal machine for handling crane mounted large diameter bored piling rigs.

For longer kelly bar applications we also run a fleet of larger capacity IHI DCH800 crawler cranes which have 21 tons free fall winches. These machines are suitable for drilling depths up to 60 m.

Machines can be supplied with or without operators, giving the piling contractor total flexibility.

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AGD Equipment recently supplied three units CZM EM400H compact hydraulic pile driving rigs for a rental contract on the Italian island of Sicily.

The piling rigs were driving 4.5 m long steel tubular piles to form the foundations for a solar energy farm. The CZM EM400H was chosen for it's compact nature as the site was quite remote, and the transport dimensions were important as the access roads were narrow.

Weighing just 22 tons and with a transport width of 2.7 m the Italian piling contractor was very happy with the performance of the 2 tons Fambo HR2000 hydraulic hammer mounted on the CZM EM400H piling rig and regularly installed up to 100 piles per day.

Click on the link below to view a video of the CZM EM400H in operation:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2beU4NgJRM 

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CMP/Barker JV choose AGD Rental for M25 widening contract

Sheet piling sub-contractors Commercial Marine & Piling/Kim Barker Construction Joint Venture were recently awarded a contract by Balfour Beatty/Skanska to install sheet piled walls on the M25 widening scheme in Hertfordshire.

AGD Rental were chosen to supply all of the telescopic crawler cranes for the contract plus some telescopic leader piling rigs to bolster CMP/Barkers fleets where necessary.

At the height of the programme AGD have supplied a total of 8 units IHI telescopic crawler cranes and 2 units RTG telescopic leader piling rigs. The contract started in 2009 and is ongoing with regular visits varying from 2 to 10 machines and will extend well into 2011.

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