Welcome to vulcanhammer.info! Thanks for visiting today. The site is about Vulcan Iron Works Inc., its history and the pile driving equipment it manufactured. My great-great-grandfather founded Vulcan in 1852. Vulcan was a foundry for most of the nineteenth century, then in 1887 it produced the first #1 hammer. Pile driving equipment became its exclusive product by World War II. In the 1960's our equipment was taken offshore for oil platform installation; this proved the greatest venture Vulcan undertook.

The company remained almost entirely in my family's hands until 1996, when it was acquired by a partially owned subsidiary of the Cari Capital Company in 1996. The air/steam product line was in turn acquired by Vulcan Foundation Equipment in 2001, and they produced it until 2007. The following year the Vulcan product line was acquired by Pile Hammer Equipment.

Vulcan hammers are a durable product; some have been in service for more than a century. There is a wealth of information on this site about the various products that Vulcan manufactured and marketed in its 144 year history. If you can't find what you're looking for here--and that includes information on parts and service--fill out the form below and send it to me, or call me at (423) 488-8590.

Don Warrington

About the Webmaster

• Experience
  • From 1852 to 1996, his family was the principal owner of Vulcan Iron Works Inc., and he was employed there in various capacities there from 1978 until 1999.
  • Editor/Constultant, Pile Buck, Inc., 2000-2007
  • Adjunct faculty member at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2001-Present; soil mechanics and foundation design.
  • Publisher of numerous books on geotechnical and marine engineering.
• Education
  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
  • Masters of Science Degree in Civil Engineering, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
• Memberships and Registrations
  • Registered Professional Engineer, States of Tennessee and Ohio
  • Member, American Society of Civil Engineers
• Clients
  • Kennedy, Covington, Lobdell & Hickman, Charlotte, NC
  • Pile Hammer Equipment, Rising Fawn, GA
  • Tidewater-Skanska, Virginia Beach, VA
  • Vulcan Foundation Equipment, Ft. Payne, AL
  • Weeks Marine, Cranford, NJ