March 13, 2006:
Multiple Personalities of a Testa Operatore
When I first met Chris Vocci he was operating the 7550 crane picking
girders from the Pearman ramp over East Bay. I managed to misnamed him
(a similar mistake that I perfected with Michael Hebb and Jack Foley) - which
has turned out to be a great way to meet people since someone usually
writes email and corrects me. Last week when Sparky was out at the Navy
yard, what did we find but all purpose Richie operating a grapple. Sparky
sent some photos from yesterday's action at Town Creek and Drum Island and
included were a few photos of someone operating a grapple and loading metal
sheets onto a dump truck operated by someone else. Michael has become my
people identifier - and it turns out that he was operating the grapple (Joshua -
look at your dad run a grapple - which is he better with - the grapple or
the shear?) while Chris Vocci was operating the dump truck.
Mar 16, 2006 - Joshua today replied:
Hi Frank it's me Joshua,
My answer to your question is that he is equally good at both the grapple
and shear because he is good at everything he does.
My dad always says when you do something give it your all.
From Joshua - this is a good message for all of us!
Our Testa
team with multiple personalities and no longer can I associate a machine
with a person. Here is today's story.
Watch Michael pick up a steel plate
move it over the top of Chris's truck
and gently lay it down, so as not to disturb Chris
At the same time the cape may is playing 1 crane spud to reposition the barge
With Mike Nally carefully looking on
Here is the Cape May with Grace bones from the deeps of Town Creek
All sorts of Graceful bones
Different Graceful bones
as Mike maps out the next move
Then Art and the Eddie R moves the Cape May
and just like with the main spans of the Ravenel Bridge, Art closes the
gap between the two barges
closer
and tie off
T3 being prepared for imploding the substructure. Mickey's team (Silas
and Brett) have been drilling 45' vertical holes for the explosive charges.
and a closer view at Michael's work - a clean surface for Silas and Brett.
Mickey's team should complete the drilling today - so perhaps later this
week when all the Grace debris is gone, T-3, also known as Tenacity of
Purpose, will similarly disappear.