This hydraulic pile driver was laying on the side of the road on the Essex Causeway. I imagine they are doing work on to get the marinas in the Essex River ready for boating season. To give you an idea of how it works I found this cool graphic on the Powerquip Industrial Co website.
For those of you who don’t know what a pile driver is (no, it’s not a hemorrhoid removal technique), it hammers pilings into the ground for support to build on top of. The harbor is a place where you see many piling supported buildings.
You can click this text to see pictures of Hydraulic Pile Drivers in use in different applications.
Pile Driver, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 