pile-frame

Updated: January 26, 2026

Two hammers of 30 cwt. each were kept in regular use, making from 60 to 70 strokes a minute; and the results were astounding to those who had been accustomed to the old style of pile-driving by means of the ordinary pile-frame, consisting of slide, ram, and monkey.

Samuel Smiles - Lives of the Engineers: The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson