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Ram Jack Company Profile
Ram Jack Foundation Solutions
Generations of Innovation & Sustained Growth
The history of Ram Jack began with Bill Gregory in Ada, Oklahoma. Bill was a welder
by trade who followed construction with the pipe fitters and boilermakers union.
Bill also ran his own oil field welding business for a time. Bill’s steadfast dedication
to honest, professional service made the business a success. Today the
company management
team includes three generations of Gregory family members who all share a profound
dedication to honesty, integrity, and professionalism.
The company’s original product was the Ram Jack Foundation Repair System – a hydraulically
driven push pier system used exclusively for underpinning residential and commercial
structures. This product was conceived and perfected by the company’s founder, Steve
Gregory. “A very intense and prolonged drought struck the Midwest in the 1980’s,
and the traditional concrete underpinning methods were proving to be inadequate”,
Gregory explains. “There were just a few people in the U.S. back then experimenting
with steel pilings for underpinning applications, and I did a significant amount
of research and design to come up 
with a system that could provide a permanent solution
without the need for heavy excavating equipment or concrete”, Gregory continued.
Ram Jack installation contractors perfected the process of repairing failed foundations
in the Oklahoma and Texas region, and then began significant expansion by offering
franchises to contractors in states across the U.S.
Ram Jack Starts Manufacturing Helical Piles
During this fast and furious period of growth, Gregory and his management team decided to add helical piles to their product lines to address certain soft soil and expansive soil conditions across the country. Currently Ram Jack is one of the primary players in both foundation repair business and helical piles for new construction applications with over 50 certified installation contractors located in five countries including the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico and Panama.
In today’s helical pile marketplace, Ram Jack, like other leading helical pile manufacturers,
must have a significant commitment to product design, sophisticated manufacturing
systems, and application engineering to support their installation contractors. Engineering
director Darin Willis and his staff provide the technical horsepower required to
keep Ram Jack on the forefront of product innovation and the demands of building
code regulations at the local, state and national level. Darin has been and remains
intensely involved with the evolution of AC358 -
Ram Jack Helical Pile Products
The Ram Jack helical pile product line consists of five different size and capacity round shaft piles including:
It’s important to note that Ram Jack also supplies much larger and higher capacity helical piles depending upon customer requirements.
Unique Corrosion Protection
Clearly the majority of helical pile manufactures today use hot dip galvanizing as
the primary means for corrosion protection – and Ram Jack will do that also if requested.
However, their standard corrosion protection solution is a product known as Thermoplastic
Co-
According to management, the Thermoplastic Co-
Ram Jack Pile Caps & Bracket Products
Like all other helical pile manufacturers, Ram Jack offers a whole host of pile caps for new construction applications and brackets for underpinning and tiebacks and retaining walls. These products include:
Custom Bracket Orders
One very impressive aspect to Ram Jack’s approach to serving their customers’ every need is they currently manufacture over 300 different brackets. No, that’s not one too many zeros – the number is truly over 300. When asked why so many, the answer made perfect sense – “different structures, different soils, different requests by engineers and installers, and in 30 years time, we have seen and experienced a lot of unique and challenging applications”.
Helical Design Software
Ram Jack has also developed helical design software titled Foundation Solutions -
- Provides easy helical design solution for: Piles [underpinning, new construction & slab] Anchors [tieback & guy]
- Based on “Individual Bearing Method”
- User friendly & flexible design software
- Provides design confidence
- Downloadable free to Design Engineers
- Allows input for various helix diameters and configurations
- Allows input on various shaft sizes based on required loading
- Capacities are based on strength of materials and soil with the lesser controlling
- Estimates both pier & anchor embedment lengths
- Provides both tabular & graphical output
All Orders Built On Demand
Ram Jack has streamlined the supply side of the business to the point where the volume
of finished goods is kept to a minimum, and all customer orders are manufactured
once the ordered is entered. The vast majority of customer orders are filled in
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Contact Information:
Ram Jack Systems Distribution
13655 CR 1570
Ada, OK 74820
888-
Ram Jack Headquarters 40,000 sq. ft. on 12 Acres
|
Pile O.D. Size |
Ultimate Capacity |
Recommended Applications |
|
1 5/8” |
25 kips |
Primarily tension; wall tiebacks & other light load applications |
|
2 3/8” |
30 kips |
Compression or tension; underpinning or new construction applications |
|
2 7/8” |
80 kips |
Compression or tension; underpinning or new construction applications |
|
3 1/2” |
99 kips |
Compression or tension; underpinning or new construction applications |
|
4 1/2” |
150 kips |
Compression or tension; underpinning or new construction applications |
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Product Name |
Recommended Applications |
|
Extra Low Profile Bracket |
Raise and support slabs and other lightly loaded structures |
|
Low Profile Porch Bracket |
Used to raise and support light loads such as porches, patios, wing walls, etc. |
|
Fold- |
Used for hydraulic lifting of heavy internal floor slabs; requires minimal excavation
due to fold- |
|
Hydraulic Lift Floor Slab Bracket |
Used to hydraulically lift heavy interior slabs greater than six inches thick |
|
Flush Profile Porch Bracket |
Used to raise and support light loads such as porches, patios, wing walls, etc. |
|
New Construction Bracket |
Used for new construction for embedding in footings and grade beams |
|
Pile Tieback Assembly |
Used to transfer the lateral force induced on a vertical pile |
|
Timber Column Bracket |
Supporting timbers that have experienced settlement |
by Bill Bonekemper
March 26, 2011
