Ian McColgin
02-20-2015, 03:03 PM
This guy puts those pilings with a natural taper in narrow end first. Since it's not pointed, it does not drive any easier and doesn't set any better since the driving wiggles the piling and the hole takes a little while to settle in around the pole anyway.
So every few years we have enough ice that at low tide the ice gets a good grip on the pilings and yanks them right out. The dead parallel sided pilings don't come out and those pilings installed by contractors with half a brain, planted fat end down, don't give the ice the grip so they stay.
But why let reality get in the way of repeat business, especially if the marina owner is as dumb as the contractor.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10998366_1008328049196190_6480105180313819134_n.jp g?oh=04ead4d4c0fd87f3e1ca6869d2a6fcf4&oe=5548980B&__gda__=1431480923_b526a4436e6e31630fb37272269fc17 c
So every few years we have enough ice that at low tide the ice gets a good grip on the pilings and yanks them right out. The dead parallel sided pilings don't come out and those pilings installed by contractors with half a brain, planted fat end down, don't give the ice the grip so they stay.
But why let reality get in the way of repeat business, especially if the marina owner is as dumb as the contractor.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10998366_1008328049196190_6480105180313819134_n.jp g?oh=04ead4d4c0fd87f3e1ca6869d2a6fcf4&oe=5548980B&__gda__=1431480923_b526a4436e6e31630fb37272269fc17 c