Today the Demolition Dynamics acrobats were planting charges for tomorrow's blast. Here is the Grace worksite - barge, Chris and his crane and the iron worker acrobats

Another view of the worksite

And doing the fetching and toting is Chris

and his crane

and looking up the boom at the Chris-o-vator - lifting the team and material into place.

and the cab of the Chris-o-vator

Getting to the job

It all starts with a cut into the girder. The explosives will be placed and wrapped with a sheet of kevlar and then - wrapped with sections of a conveyor belt. Conveyor belts have both a rubber surface as well as embedded steel mesh and this will help contain the lateral movement of debris.

Preparing the charge

then wrapping it with a sheet of kevlar

terminating the kevlar's waving-like-a-flag

and finishing the wrapping

Here is shown the wrapped bundle with the conveyor belt shield

The charge with the shield in place

Charge planting finished

A stack of conveyor belt segments ready for use

Several of the charges

Planting charges

A planted charge - note the fuse lines above

Tieing a charge into the fusing lines

another view of the fuse line

David and Oscar and ??? - in the Chris-o-vator

Tieing in the charges

Another charge