Industry · Piling
Piling.
Steel that holds steel.
Pile rigs need a deck that doesn't move. Our Heavy Duty Crane Barges with internal spud anchoring give pile crews the rigid, level surface a hammer needs to drive plumb — vibratory, drop, diesel, or sheet.
Overview
A pile driver is only as good as the deck under it.
Pile driving over water is a fight. The hammer wants the pile straight down. The barge wants to roll, pitch, and translate every time the hammer lands. Whichever wins decides whether the pile is plumb, whether you hit design embedment, and whether the inspector signs off the first time. The crews that drive plumb on the first attempt do it from rigid, properly spudded platforms.
The Heavy Duty Crane Barge suits this work. Each 10′ wide × 7′ high section is rated at 58 tons per barge with 1 ft freeboard, takes internal or external spud wells, and pins to its neighbours through the same pin-flange connection system as the rest of the line. H-pile for a building foundation, sheet pile for a cofferdam or seawall, large-diameter pipe for a pier or wharf, timber for a heritage rebuild — same fleet handles it. Standard sections add staging area and pile-cap work space once the driving is done.
Bring us your hammer make and model, leads weight, and pile schedule. We'll spec the float, the spuds, and the deck geometry against it.
Applications
Pile work the Heavy Duty barge handles
Vibratory hammer platforms
Heavy Duty floats with internal spuds. Vibration isolated from the hull, level deck for the leads, accurate pile alignment from start to refusal.
Drop & diesel hammer
Multi-section configs for crawler-mounted hammers driving large-diameter pipe, timber, and prestressed concrete to design embedment.
Sheet pile install
Spudded platforms holding station while sheets get templated and driven along a continuous line — cofferdams, seawalls, bulkheads.
Pile cap forming
Standard sections form the surround for cap rebar, formwork, and concrete after the piles are in.
Large-diameter pipe pile
Heavy Duty multi-section platforms for the crane and templating gear monopile, jacket, and big wharf pile installation needs.
Test pile programs
Compact two-to-four section platforms for pre-construction test piles, dynamic testing, and load test setup.
Engineering
Why we push spuds over anchors.
Anchored barges drift. Even with a four-corner setup, current, wave action, and hammer impact will translate the barge over the course of a day — sometimes by feet. That shows up as out-of-tolerance pile location, out-of-plumb piles, and rework. For any serious pile job in current, in tide, or in real depth of water, internal spuds are the answer.
Sentinel barges take internal or external spud wells. A spud — 8" or 10" diameter, priced per foot — drops through the well and into the bed to anchor the platform. Once spudded, the deck holds its spot while still rising and falling with tide and wave.
Spud length and well count depend on the hammer, pile schedule, depth and current. Send those details and the spud spec is confirmed in writing with your quote.
Spec guide
Sizing the float to the hammer.
Float size depends on the crane, the hammer, the leads and how much pile you want staged on deck. Send the crane chart and hammer spec and we will recommend a section count and layout. The Heavy Duty Crane Barge is rated at 58 tons per barge with 1 ft freeboard per 41′4″ section; the Standard Barge at 36,000 lb evenly distributed.
For sheet pile along a continuous line — bulkheads, cofferdams, channel walls — a long, narrow layout lets the crew drive and brace pile after pile while the platform spud-walks down the line. Because every section pins to every other, the same sections can be re-pinned into a different shape for the next job.
Spec it for your job
Spec a spud-anchored pile-driving platform.
Tell us the hammer make and model, leads weight, pile schedule, water depth, and current. We'll spec section count, internal spud diameter and length, and deck geometry to keep the platform rigid under impact and the piles plumb to refusal.
Questions
Piling FAQ
Pricing, specs, lead times, and delivery — straight answers.