Changing the face of Charleston : The unbuilding of the Grace and Pearman Bridges
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Unbuilding Highlights
(Apr 10)
Meeting St. Stories
(Jul 10 2006)
East Bay Stories
(Oct 10 2006)
Drum Island Stories
(Feb 17)
Pearman Bridge Stories
(Apr 3)
Grace Bridge Stories
(Apr 3)
Imposions: Prep and boom
(Mar 27)
Unbuilding Bridge Blog
(July 23 2006)
Unbuilding Challenges
(Mar 13)
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(Feb 20)
Unbuilding Stories
(Mar 13)
Video and Sounds
(Feb 28)

March 26, 2006:
Happiness is email from Sparky

Sparky is the man - and even from Singapore, his grin keeps me going

and as you probably have noticed - Sparky is an inside man - here, an inside view of a a box girder

and an inside view of a ladder

Tools of the trade - a crane for lifting (recently repaired)

A barge for the reef transplantation process. This particular barge opens from the bottom so that the residual bridge debris drops out of the bottom instead of being dropped over the side

Post processing continues at the Navy Yard - Pearman bones but not without wear and tear. Here, shears with dull blades don't shear very effectively - and Jerome restores the shearing potential of these giant sissors.

One of the cutting surfaces

and of course, Jaws and Jerome's repair shop

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Attribution: C. Frank Starmer and Sparky Witte from http://oldcooperriverbridge.org