Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 503
hose steel piles,announced Harris; they are seventy feet long,each in a single piece. Once in a while a pilewould strike an old buried timber, and then ittook a long time to drive it through—sometimesan hour or more of pounding with a steam-ham-mer. That put the pile under a terrible strain,and it… … THE BULKHEAD WALL OF INTERLOCKING STEEL SHEET-PILING Easily. The pile rings when it strikes rock. What, through all that mud? I should thinkthe mud would damp the sound. No, it does nt, declared Harris, I haveheard the ring myself. You can easily tell thedifference between that and the dead sound…
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