The Hanson excavator working from its deck barge alongside a new dock.

Equipment

We own the iron. That is why nothing crosses your lawn.

Most marine contractors rent the barge and subcontract the pile driving. We own both, so the schedule is ours to keep and the work arrives from the water.

The jobsite, floated to your shoreline

Steel deck barge

Every pile, every stone, every board and the excavator itself ride out on our own barge. It is the reason a Hanson job does not need an access road, a crane pad or a path across your lawn — the work arrives from the water and leaves the same way.

No heavy equipment across your yard, septic field or driveway
Materials staged on the water, not stacked on your grass
Reaches shorelines with no land access at all

Drives the piles, sets the stone, lifts the timber

Tracked excavator

Barge-mounted and swapped between attachments through the day: vibratory hammer for piles, thumb and bucket for placing armor stone, and straight lifting for setting stringers and lift beams. One machine does the work three would otherwise be hired in to do.

Piles driven to refusal, not jetted and left
Armor stone placed piece by piece so it locks
No waiting on a rented crane or a subcontracted pile rig

Puts timber and vinyl in the ground properly

Vibratory hammer

A vibratory hammer drives a pile by shaking the soil loose around it until the pile sinks under its own weight and the hammer's, then stops when the ground refuses to take it. That refusal point is the depth — measured by the ground, not by a tape.

Consistent embedment across every pile on the job
Drives vinyl sheet pile without splitting the interlock
Far less disturbance to the bottom than jetting

Moves the barge, sets the work

Push boat

Positions and holds the barge against wind and tide while the crew works, and moves the whole operation along the shoreline as the job progresses. On tight creeks it is the difference between working a site and not being able to reach it.