Wooden piles

Most often, wooden piles are made from coniferous wood and occasionally from deciduous trees. For wooden piles, only the best wood is suitable, without a hint of rot, knots, cracks, wood, which has sharp shapes (in length) is also not used. Logs should be clean, without twig and bark. As a rule, the length of a whole pile with a grace of one meter varies from six to sixteen meters, and with a grace of 0.5m to six meters. The grunt of the pile in shape resembles a four or three -sided pyramid with a small dulling of the lower end. Dulling is necessary in order to give the tip more strength. The length of the pile of the pile varies from two to one and a half diameters.

When clogging the piles on the tip, a special metal hoop is put on, called Bugel. If the pile is driven into gravel or into dense sandy soil, the lower end of the wooden pile is supplied with a metal shoe. Like Bugel, the shoe serves to prevent the start of the wood of wood. Wooden piles are joined strictly at a right angle, it should be borne in mind that during the docking, centering the build -up and lower parts should be ensured. The service life of these piles exceeds several decades. But it should be borne in mind that they are very unstable to the fire, amenable to the attack of termites, if the pile is unprocessed by a special compound of sea water, will also have a pernicious effect on the life of wooden piles.