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March 20, 2006: Richie and Jackie - doing the Tango with Grace at the Navy Yard

What Manny and Scott and Nugget and Chucky and Chris wrought on Saturday (following by a chorus of "Up a lazy river" comes to rest at the Navy Yard here Team Orange takes over. Here, the worksite

Richie has his favorite orange sweatshirt on - and is playing the grapple while Jackie is without sun glasses and is playing the shear. Here Richie takes a bite of one of the floor girders. Watch Down and dirty

Not satisfied with this pace of work, he pickes up a pair of floor girders

Next - the dance - pulling a support pier from the barge. For some fun, watch them dance: Step 1

Step 2:

Next - Jackie displays his surgical skill with the grab

and bite

RIchie displays the same precision - note the beam is between his teeth

Then time for a yawn (sometimes know as displaying your jaws

Richie in his favorite orange sweatshirt

And another dance of pickup

- pull and chew starts: Watch another verse of Jackie and Richie - dragging the two-steppickup.

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