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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 - the ICC-ES acceptance criteria for helical piles. He is also deeply involved with the Deep Foundation Institute’s Helical Foundations and Tiebacks Committee.
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-Polymer Powder Coating. This corrosion protection solution has been accepted by ICC-ES as identified in Ram Jack’s recently awarded Evaluation Report ESR-1854. This unique process involves an acid bath to prepare the surface, similar in nature to the process used in hot dip galvanizing, to receive the powder coating. The Thermoplastic Co-Polymer is sprayed onto the steel products, pipe, pile caps or brackets, and then the products travel through a very hot oven to complete the process.
According to management, the Thermoplastic Co-Polymer Powder Coating process is an eco-friendly process with less environmental impact than galvanized products with no zinc leech out into water sheds.
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 - for use by engineers and project planners. The software offers the following features and benefits:
- 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 5-8 business days. Very large orders or custom orders requiring new designs and/or additional non-stocking materials can take longer.
Contact Information:
Ram Jack Systems Distribution
13655 CR 1570
Ada, OK 74820
888-332-9909
by Bill Bonekemper
March 26, 2011
