March 13, 2007: Manny and his cleanup act
Its clean-up time. What remains is the stub of the tooth and Manny and
team will finish the job

Inspecting the after-blast remains

One of the remaining blankets - Another Sparky art photo

Pulling the spud to relocate Manny's barge

The cleanup site

Repositioning the barge

What I call the "pushover" worksite

Our man, Manny

Paul discussing the pushover strategy

using the 1250 - with Manny sitting in Michael's old seat

Before starting - this will be a duet for two grapples - Manny on the
barge with the 1250 and ? on the port side

The cargo container barrier

Click and watch moving the cargo container. Here, starting to move the cargo box

and moving

and with the cargo barrier clear

and the 1250 in position -

Its time for the big pushes

Manny takes a bite

and here is the pier core

and the push sequence





Splash

Next position and

push,

push,

and splash

And again - practice makes perfect.

Cleaning the top of the pier foundation

Help from the port side

Cleanup

Manny and Paul

More cleaning

Manny at the 1250 controls

and so it goes

Click to watch Manny clean the top
of the foundation -
and taking another bite

Cleaning the top of the foundation

and here, a little fix-it job

Carlos - king of the mountain

Finished

The captain - that has been positioning the barge

and closing with a piece of "Sparky art"
