Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Human Powered Pile Driver

To provide foundation support for buildings or other structures you need a mechanical device like a pile driver. But what if you don't have one? You use the power of humans.



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(thanks Cora)

1 comment(s):

Anonymous said...

The Thai construction workers stand on a horizontal beam and bounce in rhythm with each other. This essentially creates a human-powered piledriver. It pushes a vertical part of the foundation into the ground because the workers are applying downward pressure in unison on the horizontal beam.