June 20, 2006:
New player on the block
Out at the Navy Yard the cleanup continues but with a twist. There
is a new player in our game
A pile of rebar
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.oldcooperriverbridge.org/small/jun_20_sparky_002_rebar.jpg)
A pile of Grace/Pearman pieces (Jackie has been working hard)
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.oldcooperriverbridge.org/small/jun_20_sparky_003_pieces.jpg)
Timmy's excavator-in-waiting
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.oldcooperriverbridge.org/small/jun_20_sparky_007_waiting.jpg)
and the new player, the 995 from Jay Cashman. This mega-machine
does the cleanup after Mickey blows away the piers and substructures.
With two barges - it picks up concrete debris from the river bottom
and dumps it into one barge while picking up rebar and dumping it in
a separate barge. Should be interesting to watch this guy in action
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.oldcooperriverbridge.org/small/jun_20_sparky_010_new_excavator.jpg)
and its bucket
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.oldcooperriverbridge.org/small/jun_20_sparky_012_bucket.jpg)
and a view from under
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.oldcooperriverbridge.org/small/jun_20_sparky_013_under.jpg)