January 11, 2007: Loading T-1 for Friday's Blast
Here is T-1, the worksite with Mickey, Ken and Jackie Sherrel loading and sequencing
the dynamite for Friday's implosion
Ken and Jackie going up to load the cross-member
while Mickey is busy working on the tie-in at the base of T-1. Note
the barrier of freight containers
Ken on the cross member
Receiving a powder punch for inserting the detonator with a tube of dynamite and tamping rod in his left hand
Here, inserting the detonator
and tamping the dynamite in place - while holding the shock tube coil
Getting the next tube of dynamite
and a bucket of stemming (small crushed rock to pack the hole
A nice view of the worksite with Ken in position
And Mickey, the architect, with his container shield
and sequencing the ignition pattern
Tieing in the shock tubes.
A view of the packed hole
The shock tube array (close).
The red lines introduce a 25 msec delay while the
yellow introduces a 9 msec delay. Thus the ignition sequence travels rapidly
vertically (via the yellow shock tubes)
before the lower detonators are triggered. The result,
one of Mickey and Ken's perfect vertical drop implosions.
A good view of the shock tube array climbing the column
Day's end
and sunset.
and Sparky going home after a very long day