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Charlie: Gus from Jacinto City says, “I have a question for you. Have you ever heard of something called Ram Jack for foundation repair, and if so, can you tell me is it any good, what is it?”
Tom: Yeah, I haven’t heard anything bad about it. Like any of the processes out there, this one happens to be steel, this big thing they ram into the ground and it has this little … it’s like a little ledge that holds up underneath the slab. I think even our sponsor Du-West does a form of that on some specialty situations when it’s on a sloping site.
Charlie: As much as you talk about them doing the driven piles, they’ll do bell bottoms in cases, and they do steel pilings depending on the application.
Tom: They even do some of that foam injection, if I remember correct, on some of the flat work and stuff, too.
Charlie: They do indeed.
Tom: It would be fine if it’s in the right situation. I haven’t heard anything bad about it. I know it’s kind of a franchise, I do believe.
Charlie: The bottom line is, if he’s interested in that kind of steel piling … and really it’s not the kind of thing where you pick the piling. The piling, the job picks the solution.
Tom: Absolutely.
Charlie: If you go with somebody who only does that, maybe not so good.
Tom: One size does not fit all. It’s not a baseball hat.