If the pile is not used and neglected over the years, it will rot down.
Approximately 300 piles were used to bring the ground floor to street level and create the structure's foundation.
Questions were also raised about why steel rods, or piles, had not been used to anchor the footings deep into the stream bed.
When the deck is used up and no player has exhausted his Bunco pile, all removed piles are shuffled together and used for a new deck.
The underpass structure is over piles and piles have also been used as a retaining structure.
In several places, mud-slick piles of earth from inside the compound had been used to bolster the walls.
Heaps of wooden logs and a copious pile of the black fuel stones were being used to feed the flames.
A good average pile, by the time it was delivered on the ground, cost a twenty-dollar gold piece, and these piles were used in unending thousands.
In buildings that are constructed and found to undergo settlement, underpinning piles can be used to stabilise the existing building.
In high latitudes where the ground is continuously frozen, adfreeze piles are used as the primary structural foundation method.