id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 34942 Newman, John Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works .txt text/plain 63900 4282 86 known screw piles to penetrate hard and dense sand, gravel, soft sandy "I have seen piles screwed into a kind of clay rock seam, the end of We were working two triangles of screw piles I thought lovely, and like disc piles better for sand, those that sink by water-pressure I any cast-iron screw piles that are less than half an inch in thickness. sufficient length for men to walk round, I have screwed piles by ropes, like a copper ring on the head of the iron pile and a good long timber humble like, and said to the engineer, 'I think you will agree, sir, I said to him, 'It wants a lot of experience to know when piles are not will cease work, I think, very soon?' 'They will,' said the engineer. 'extra' profit string of my brain worked right, and I pointed and said, ./cache/34942.txt ./txt/34942.txt