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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 7:12 pm
by GB_Groundworks
anyone got one or know about them, we've got bad ground at this joba nd engineer recommending for a cost based approach to pile with 150mm piles,
can get a 130mm grundomat for £2k on ebay and then got a compressor, got mobile 12 kva welder so thinking of adding this to our tool shed although we might mass pour concrete instead, but be nice to offer this.
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:11 pm
by GB_Groundworks
no? no one? erm.... further investigation required, seem to be cheap when you take into account muck away etc, then just a ground beam ontop of them
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:56 am
by msh paving
To pile with a 130 you would probilly need 2 compressors,the tube has to be a couple or three mm bigger than the mole to allow sand to be put down tube so you can reverse it out,1 man wont lift a 130 mole, i own a 110 and that is a very heavy 6ft long,give TTUK a ring in bedford and as there advise on it they the uk mole center for grundomat,good bunch of guys
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:04 am
by GB_Groundworks
130mm mole goes in 150mm pointed pile, with dry mix etc then 1metre sections welded on as you go, looks like a good system we'll see what the grounds like today
Needs 3.2m3 of air/minute
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:28 pm
by Injured
Used to use one years ago noisy messy horrible job not something i would like to do again and the one i used weighed 157kg and we had to lift it on and off the wagon twice aday and then stand it up in a starter stood in a narrow trench all done by hand. 
Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 6:36 pm
by haggistini
Seen this today looks like a dumper sheet piler???
Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 6:47 pm
by dig dug dan
I have seen this too, its used for post and rail fencing on the motorways