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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.

Vulcan hammers are a durable product; some have been in service for more than a century. There are many options for keeping your Vulcan hammer in service. 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

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