February 24, 2006: Sparky and unbuilding the great Pearman main span
Here is the main span minus the end segments - and thinking about dividing
and conquoring
The worksite
The worksite from another angle
The worksite from the opposite side
and thinking
With a shear for chewing beams
and Steve DeMello and his grapple for loading stuff
Step 2: loading
Step 3: dropping into the truck
Meanwhile, more thinking
Sparky did a study of viewing the main span: End view
An inside view.
I remember riding my bicycle under these Xs early on Sunday mornings after
taking a series of photos of building the Ravenel main span. From
main span to main span
As seen through Captain Gary's port hole
As seen through Captain Gary's door
And Captain Gary, of course
Chris Vocci takes time out for a lub job
My man, Richie - the ace burner, operator, thinker and sculptor - on his
way for some serious cutting
Meanwhile - the shear is at work
Chris - taking bites out of a box girder
this is what I call a box bite
and this is a pile of box bites
Steve loading more box bites
and loading box bites
an unusual bite
All this time, the thinking is over and Richie is flying high and burning
away
The cut mark - Today is friday so the cut marks are white. On Wednesday,
they are Testa-orange
burning through the outer girder
Richie cutting the cable
cutting the edge box girder
Finished cut - see the light through the cut?
Richie from a distance
Next cut
a cross cut
and in parallel, more bites
and more bites
Richie riding the cross beam
and cutting
Pio and Richie - hmmmm - some serious thinking going on here
and a TV crew to capture this moment of thought