Patent ID: 8602689

Claim:
A method for installing a piling, comprising: providing a piling, the piling comprising a pipe; sliding a detachable nose cone device through a coupler section of the pipe, the pipe having at least one helix; coupling the detachable nose cone device to the coupler section of the pipe by activating a first set of one or more locking mechanisms that are part of the detachable nose cone device; applying torque to the pipe in order to rotate the pipe, coupler section, and detachable nose cone device into ground with the helix engaging the ground; removing the detachable nose cone device from the coupler section and from the pipe by deactivating the first set of one or more locking mechanisms and by coupling the nose cone device to a detachable picker device, the picker detachable device having a second set of one or more locking mechanisms that engage the detachable nose cone device, wherein at least the pipe remains in the ground after torque has been applied to the pipe.