Devices bolted to a pile hammer to engage it with and permit it to slide along a spud lead. Sometimes called gib.
Spud Lead
A steel wide-flange or H-beam used in place of leads. The hammer engages and slides upon one flange of the beam through the use of spud clips bolted to the hammer. Also called H-beam Lead, Monkey Stick, or Pony Lead. See Sketches, Appendix B.
Spudding
The act of opening a hole through dense material by dropping or driving a spud.
French: perforation
Spun Pile
Tubular precast reinforced concrete pile, hollow and open-ended. Commonly installed by driving with diesel hammer
Spur Dike
See Groin.
Spur Pile
See Inclined Pile.
Stabbing Points, Leads
Fabricated steel points fastened to the very bottom of swinging box(U) leads, or H-beam leads.
stability
French: stabilité
German: Stabilität
Spanish: estabilidad
Italian: stabilità
Portuguese: estabilidade
Dutch: stabiliteit
Stabilizing Fluid
Slurry used to support the sidewalls of a slurry trench excavation.
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