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Pile Design and Construction Practice, Fifth edition

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Piling equipment <strong>and</strong> methods 119<br />

Figure 3.36 <strong>Pile</strong> top rig drilling 3.8 m dia piles for foundation strengthening to the Richmond-San<br />

Raphael bridge, California (courtesy Seacore Ltd).<br />

prised out by spade when the cutter is raised to the surface. Drilling is effected in coarse-grained<br />

soils by means of a baler or ‘shell’, which is again a simple tube with a cutting edge <strong>and</strong> flap<br />

valve to retain the soil, the soil being drawn into the baler by a suction action when the tool<br />

is raised <strong>and</strong> lowered. If no groundwater is present in the pile borehole, water must be poured<br />

in, or a bentonite slurry may be used. This suction action inevitably causes loosening of the soil<br />

at the base of the pile borehole, thus reducing the base resistance. The loosening may be

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