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Earl

November 27, 2007 05:36PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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We ran it off shop air. Back then the shop air compressor was a large gas/diesel powered unit on rubber tires on the south side of the machine shop. I would guess the current shop compressor has as much CFM to it as the old dinosaur did.

I recall you had to get pretty brave and wind up the spool pretty good and slip the clutch to keep the rpm"s up to keep it from stalling. Once w stood it up, me made no attempt to raise the hammer head. We figured one drop of that and OP would be a pile of splinters.

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D&RGW Pile driver OB	Les Clark	November 21, 2007 12:11PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Jerry Day	November 21, 2007 02:28PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	dick ferguson	November 23, 2007 03:28PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Jerry Day	November 23, 2007 04:18PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Earl	November 24, 2007 12:33PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Jerry Day	November 24, 2007 01:33PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Earl	November 24, 2007 01:43PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Les Clark	November 27, 2007 02:25PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Bill Pratt	November 27, 2007 03:21PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Les Clark	November 29, 2007 01:35PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Ed Stabler	November 29, 2007 01:47PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Earl	November 27, 2007 05:36PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Les Clark	November 29, 2007 01:44PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Jerry Day	November 27, 2007 06:20PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	hank	November 27, 2007 06:46PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Jerry Day	November 27, 2007 07:51PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Fred T	November 29, 2007 08:17PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Les Clark	November 29, 2007 01:55PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	hank	November 29, 2007 06:13PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Jerry Day	November 29, 2007 06:41PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Les Clark	November 29, 2007 01:47PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB	Jerry Day	November 29, 2007 06:31PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB / steam vs air	Russo Loco	November 30, 2007 12:29PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB / steam vs air	Gavin Hamilton	November 30, 2007 01:53PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB / steam vs air	Russo Loco	November 30, 2007 02:43PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB / steam vs air	dougvv	November 30, 2007 02:50PM
Re: D&RGW Pile driver OB / steam vs air	Russo Loco	November 30, 2007 02:53PM

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