### ODT Online Fri, 3 Jul 2009
Video: Stadium piles plunge into the earth
This ODT video shows how massive concrete piles needed for the Forsyth Barr Stadium are plunging up to 10m into the earth before hitting solid ground. Watch as first one pile, then a second, appears to fall before hitting solid ground.
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### ODT Online Fri, 3 Jul 2009
Stadium piles plunging 10m into earth
By Chris Morris
The Otago Daily Times watched two of the about 18m-long solid concrete piles being hoisted by crane and then punched into the ground by a hydraulically activated pile-driver yesterday afternoon. The piling work is being carried out by Daniel Smith Industries, of Christchurch, overseen by main contractor Hawkins Construction.
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