Welding drill stem

   / Welding drill stem #11  
I've spliced about a bazillion H-piles after being driven. All the corners in a H-beam will give you arc blow on the best of days, but after being driven they can be a nightmare to weld.

Out of interest. Why are H beams driven at an angle as in the pic? What sort of construction is this?
 
   / Welding drill stem #12  
Out of interest. Why are H beams driven at an angle as in the pic? What sort of construction is this?
I don't know what they're building in that picture. I found it on the Internet. When I was doing this kind of work there was no Internet, if I would have known I would have taken more pictures of the jobs I was on.:laughing:
We drove batter piles for container ship docks in the abutment, for the impact of the ships bouncing against the dock. A lot of it is done for uplift in earthquake zones also.
You can't see the H-piles in these pictures, because the time the pictures were taken the beams were already to grade.
 

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I rather naively assumed that those were suspension bridge pilings or would be incorporated into some structure that would resist pull in the opposite direction from how the H beams are pointing. Massive tent stakes!!
 
   / Welding drill stem #14  
Tent stakes? I like that!:laughing: Here are some pretty big tent stakes.
 

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#15  
Thanks for the input.

I do have drill stem 4.5", 2 3/8 and 2 7/8 oil pipe and sucker rod. What we call oil tubing actually comes new in rolls and is thinner walled. The 2" pipe, commonly called drill stem around here is a heavy wall pipe that comes in 30' joints.

The rod is no problem. The others haven't been bad in the past bit do have some hard or slightly magnetic spots. Those will kill a cold saw blade in a second when cutting.
 
   / Welding drill stem #16  
Wow, those are massive tent stakes....:shocked:
 
   / Welding drill stem #17  
Wow, those are massive tent stakes....:shocked:

Yea, I understand they are for a tent that needs to be big enough to cover all the BS coming out of Congress these days! Ought to be at least as big as one of the pyramids in Giza.
 
   / Welding drill stem #18  
Wow, those are massive tent stakes....:shocked:
Biggest I ever drove. 10-feet in dia. All of them had to be welded on to. Can't remember all the lengths, but the ones farthest off shore were driven over 200-feet into the river bottom then drilled out, and filled with concrete.
 
   / Welding drill stem #19  
Biggest I ever drove. 10-feet in dia. All of them had to be welded on to. Can't remember all the lengths, but the ones farthest off shore were driven over 200-feet into the river bottom then drilled out, and filled with concrete.

How do you "drill out" massive H beams that have been driven 200 feet down??? Are you saying that the steel was literally drilled away and then concrete poured in its place or was concrete poured around the steel? I have always wondered how the concrete got "attached" because you typically just see steel being driven.
 
   / Welding drill stem #20  
Yea, I understand they are for a tent that needs to be big enough to cover all the BS coming out of Congress these days! Ought to be at least as big as one of the pyramids in Giza.

:laughing:
 

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