Title: 
            What Is a Hydraulic Pile Cropper?
        
        
            Author(s): 
            
        
        
            
                Publication: 
                Concrete International
            
            
                Volume: 
                44
            
            
                Issue: 
                7
            
            
                Appears on pages(s): 
                54-55
            
            
                Keywords: 
                excavator, cropping, cutter, breaker
            
            
                DOI: 
                
            
        
        
            Date: 
            7/1/2022
        
        
            Abstract:
            In the past, hydraulic or diesel hammers were used to reduce concrete piles, sometimes damaging the integrity of the piles and/or causing health problems. The new generation of hydraulic pile croppers (also known as cutters or breakers), including equipment pieces available from National Pile Croppers, provides better quality, efficiency, and safety.