Abstract: The present invention is a system and method for removal of buried objects. According to one embodiment of the invention, a crane with a vibrator casing driver is used to lift and suspend a large diameter steel casing over the buried object. Then the casing is driven into the ground by the vibratory driver until the casing surrounds the buried object. Then the open bottom of the casing is sealed shut by injecting grout into the ground within the casing near its bottom. When the seal has cured and hardened, the top of the casing is lifted to retrieve the casing, with the buried object inside, from the ground.

Abstract: The present invention is a system and method for removal of buried objects. According to one embodiment of the invention, a crane with a vibrator casing driver is used to lift and suspend a large diameter steel casing over the buried object. Then the casing is driven into the ground by the vibratory driver until the casing surrounds the buried object. Then the open bottom of the casing is sealed shut by injecting grout into the ground within the casing near its bottom. When the seal has cured and hardened, the top of the casing is lifted to retrieve the casing, with the buried object inside, from the ground.

Abstract: A method for the placement of subterranean electrodes is disclosed and which includes the steps of providing an earth engaging drill; forming a bore hole in the surface of the earth with the earth engaging drill; providing an electrode; and delivering the electrode into the bore hole by employing the earth engaging drill.

Abstract: An economical and efficient method for forming a waste containing monolith which meets applicable waste disposal laws, rules and regulations. Removable walls are attached to at least one side of the monolith, thereby forming an interior volume defined by the removable walls and at least one side of the monolith. Waste is placed within the interior volume, whereupon it is submerged in a flowable, curable, monolith forming material (typically concrete) by filling the interior volume with a monolith forming material, and allowing the monolith forming material to cure to a solidified state, thereby forming an expanded monolith integral with the existing monolith. The walls are then removed, thereby leaving the waste encased within said expanded monolith and allowing the removable walls to be reused for further expansion of the monolith.

Abstract: A protector for the bow portion of a boat hull consists of a sheet having a rear-opening pocket adapted to engage the prow of the boat. When in use, the sheet extends rearwardly from the prow, covering the center portion of the boat hull. Lines are attached at one end to the rear-most portion of the sheet, and are adapted to be secured to the boat at the other end. A weight and a forward-opening scoop pocket are located at the rear of the sheet. The sheet is secured to the boat by placing the rear-opening pocket over the prow of the boat, dropping the remainder of the sheet into the water below the prow so that the weight causes the rear of the sheet to sink below the prow, propelling the boat forward so that the scoop pocket fills with water and pulls the sheet along the hull toward the stern of the boat, retrieving the lines from the water and securing the lines to the boat. Floats are attached to the lines so that the lines may be easily retrieved from the surface of the water.

Abstract: A method of retrieving liquid from a below-ground collection area by permitting gravity flow of the liquid from the collection area to a first closed container; monitoring the level of the liquid in the closed container; and after the liquid reaches a given level in the first closed container, transferring the liquid to a second closed container disposed at a location above the first closed container, via a conduit, by introducing into the first closed container a gas which is substantially chemically inert with respect to the liquid, the gas being at a pressure sufficient to propel the liquid from the first closed container to the second closed container.

Abstract: A process for making a composite bearing material comprising a steel backed, prealloyed, lead-bronze sintered powder metal matrix whereby the first sinter step includes induction heating the prealloyed powder and steel backing to above 650.degree. C. and thereafter sintering the same at temperatures of about 850.degree. C. in a second sintering furnace. A composite bearing material made by the same process and comprising a lead particle size averaging less than about 8 microns and having no lead islands larger than about 44 microns.