The title of the post is the pile driving company.  Here's the pile driving beast above.  The pile driving machine is on the right, and some kind of control unit is on the left.  These are powered by a diesel generator, which you see below. The reason the generator is in the air, and it looks like the middle of the night, is because one of my neighbors complained to the city I was repairing my foundation!  Like I had a choice of course.  She complained about the disruption to the neighborhood by the noise and presence of heavy equipment on the street.  This in turn led the city to come out with a fine tooth comb, go through all of my permits, and demand I follow all the rules to a tee. This meant at the crack of dawn the pile driving company had to move their equipment from one side of the street to the other, and the placement of the equipment was measured to the centimeter.  To satisfy my neighbor they had to place pieces of wood under their equipment, so the sidewalk wouldn't be damage More
2011-06-28