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December 13, 2006: Unbuilding the Coleman Recycle Center

As the end nears, cleanup and rebuilding is in full swing. Today, Sparky started at what I called the Coleman Recycle Center - the convergence of Coleman Blvd and the Grace on-ramp. Here the Grace entrance road is being unbuilt. The basic process is: Grab

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Pickup

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Lift

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Lift and rotate

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Deposit in a waiting dump truck

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Offload the chunk of asphault

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Slowly

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and carefully

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Pickup the grapple

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then back to get the next chunk of roadway

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When filled, the dump truck carries the stuff to its new home

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and slowly raises the truck bed

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and the asphault slides off

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until empty. Then repeat

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