Stopfraupenbau
English translation: not much of an answer, I'm afraid
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| 16:23 Aug 17, 2000 |
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| na | not much of an answer, I'm afraid |
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| na | a bit late in the day |
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not much of an answer, I'm afraid Explanation: Below are some URLs that deal with support piling and the like. The first one (in German) pertains to Stopfen as a means of shoring up old buildings and seems quite interesting. http://home.t-online.de/home/konrad-fischer/2gustopf.htm Google did show some related sites to this first one; however, they all seemed to deal primarily with the need of preserving historical buildings/landmarks, and not so much with the technical aspects of the actual construction work. The others all deal with support piling and pile driving. Going from there, you might be able to find further links that deal with various methods of getting the support piling into the ground. Searches on Stopfraupenbau, Raupenbau, etc. were fruitless. I suspect that this may be a technique where the machine crawls forward, digs a hole and rams in a suppport pile. But that's merely a guess. http://www.vulcanhammer.com/wave/bibliogr.htm http://www.jetties.aunz.com/pilingb/ http://www.instant.com.au/a_res.asp http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Robert_Pianka/insta... http://www.sfwmd.gov/org/exo/ftmyers/plan/billy.htm http://www.phillyroads.com/roads/delaware/ Maybe someone else has better ideas... good luck |
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a bit late in the day Explanation: Stopfen also refers to the compaction of ballast. Raupe is some sort of tracked building machine. I hazard a guess, that the machine in question is a sort of caterpillar-type vehicle used for the compaction of ballast in laying the foundations for piling. |
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