There are a number of claims to the invention of the pile driver. Tufts also invented the steam pile driver. Less common variants included drag shovel, skimmer and pile driver. This was a great success, and many orders for his pile driver resulted. The pile driver was invented around 1500. Jerry Lynn beats Zero with a craddle pile driver. The water hose method took three minutes, fifteen times faster than using a pile driver. Prefabricated piles are driven into the ground using a pile driver. He was bucked off Pile Driver 4.65 seconds. Otis Tufts is credited with inventing the steam pile driver in the United States. But he's a pile driver as a dramatist. Joe Surber sunk numerous piles into the flats, using his pile driver. "Pile Driver" was a notable Department of Defense test. A steam-powered pile driver was brought from New York. Their construction required a pile driver that was specially designed to work underwater.