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Construction of a safety wall of natural wooden piles

Germany

Spreewald

Company TWB Verwaltungs GmbH from Lübbenau, Germany, has used the Menzi Muck excavator for nearly 20 years. Company is known to have a wide range of equipments for different purposes and now they also have a Movax SP-30.

At the Lübbenau site, which is surrounded by the nature conservation area Spreewald, the job was to create a safety wall for the river bank of natural wooden piles between 4 and 5 meters in length. Wooden piles were brought to place by a pontoon and dropped into the water where they were picked up with the Movax. Piles were then driven in two lines of which distance was around 20 cm. The space between the two lines was filled with brushwood. The purpose of the wooden pile wall is to safe the bank area as the stream of the small river arms is eroding it in time. Alto-gether 2000 wooden piles were used for the wall.

Earlier this kind of job required many workers: one excavator driver, supervisor of the job site, two workers to place the wooden piles on their place and one man with the high pressure water stream lance to open the ground at the same time the excavator driver pushed down the wooden pile. Maximum capacity of the job done this way was around 20-30 piles a day. Now the same amount can be handled with the combination of Menzi Muck A 91 and Movax within two hours and with less work force.