Helical pile driver for excavator CLAW
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Helical pile machine Cougar COUGAR
- Mini-excavator with a hydraulic driver attachment with eccentricity compensation for installing screw piles is like CLAW
- Helical pile machine for installing screw piles is like COUGAR
Which to choose and why?
Our customers are wondering why they shouldn’t just buy a Hydraulic driver with eccentricity compensation CLAW , attach it to a mini-excavator, and drive piles instead of buying specialized equipment Helical pile machine COUGAR for installing screw piles. Let’s figure it out.
We offer for sale both. And, obviously, both products have their buyer and their purpose. Let’s not keep the suspense going: we recommend CLAW for infrequent screw pile installation work (for farmers, landscape builders, builders that do general construction work and erect a wide variety of structures), and COUGAR – the professional equipment for builders of screw pile foundations, as well as for companies installing solar panel fields, installing fences and special barriers, building modular prefabricated houses, etc. Why, you ask? We answer.
A mini-excavator with a hydraulic driver (CLAW), although a versatile solution, has a number of disadvantages for installing screw piles compared to Helical pile machine for installing screw piles. Here are the main reasons why specialized machines (COUGAR) are often preferred:
- Power and Torque:
- Mini-excavator: A hydraulic driver mounted on a mini-excavator usually has limited torque compared to specialized machines. This can be critical when installing large diameter piles or in dense soils.
- Specialized machine: Designed specifically for driving piles, so it has a more powerful hydraulic drive and provides greater torque. This allows you to install larger piles and in more “difficult” soils.
- Stability and Off-Road Capability:
- Mini-excavator: A mini-excavator is less stable on uneven surfaces, especially when working with heavy piles. Its off-road capability is lower in difficult conditions (e.g., in marshy terrain) than that of specialized machine with strong rubber tracked undercarriage and outriggers.
- Specialized machine: Designed to work on various types of terrain and has a more stable construction. The tracked chassis provides good off-road capability even in difficult conditions. Outriggers provide additional traction and stability to the machine during installing the screw pile.”
- Performance:
- Mini-excavator: Versatility is good, but work performed with a non-specialized tool often has lower productivity. The installation process will be slower and less efficient compared to specialized equipment.
- Specialized machine: Designed for maximum performance when installing piles. It allows you to install piles faster and more efficiently.
- Safety:
- Mini-excavator: Using a mini-excavator for installing piles may be less safe, as it is not specifically designed for this purpose. It may be more difficult for the operator to control the process, which increases the risk of accidents.
- Specialized machine: Designed with safety requirements in mind and equipped with special features to protect the operator and those around them.
- Maintenance:
- Mini-excavator: This is a versatile machine, and engineers tried to create a universal hydraulic system when designing it. However, hydraulic systems, from the point of view of the requirements of physics, may require non-universal, but specific, and sometimes difficult to compatible solutions with the mini-excavator’s hydraulic system. For example, a hydraulic driver may require the use of working hydraulic fluids with a higher viscosity index than provided for by the mini-excavator’s hydraulic system.
- Specialized machine: Created for installing of screw piles, everything is harmonious and subject to a single task – to build screw pile foundations as efficiently as possible.
Conclusion:
Helical pile machine for installing screw piles is like COUGAR provides higher power, accuracy, stability, performance, and safety compared to a mini-excavator with a hydraulic driver CLAW. COUGAR is the optimal choice for most screw pile installation projects, especially when high reliability, speed, and efficiency are required. A mini-excavator with CLAW may be a suitable solution only in limited cases where high performance and accuracy are not required, and it is important to have equipment that will perform a variety of tasks without specializing in any one function.
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