Changing the face of Charleston : The unbuilding of the Grace and Pearman Bridges
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November 10, 2005:
East Bay and harvesting shoulders

East Bay has a different look. Its about 7am and the next set of girders was removed (last night, I think).

Looking left is the Pearman ramp and about half of the East Bay girders have been harvested

and some of the Pearman skeleton

a bit further is the Pearman and Grace skeletons. Barely visible on the right side of the Pearman is the neck of the shear used to harvest concrete segments.

and to the right is Charleston's new Stonehenge (with Chris operating the Grove 7550 and preparing to harvest a girder)

Meanwhile, on the Pearman ramp, Pio's team is busy harvesting and transporting shoulder segments - here with Brad operating the shear and Kevin operating the grapple

Here is Kevin with a freshly harvested shoulder

and Pio directing the harvesting

Water plays an important part in minimizing the dust

and walking back down the Pearman ramp, to the left is the current harvest of shoulders - ready for transport to the Navy yard and then for transplantation to a reef site selected by the Division of Natural Resources.

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