Ale Piling has fitted marker piles to protect Liverpool’s famous Antony Gormley Iron Men beach statues.

It installed the piles to prevent boats colliding with the statues, which become submerged daily when the tide comes in.

The work involved driving a series of 10m long, 300mm diameter steel tubes into the Crosby beach on the tide line at the low water mark.

All of the work had to be carried out within two-hour windows to suit the tides. The tubes were handled, pitched and driven using one of the company’s side grip vibration piling rigs, and driven to the required finished depth using its rig mounted percussive hammer.