October 16, 2005:
Recovering and Disassembling a Pearman
Segment (Chewing)
I missed the dropping of the Pearman truss and found the recovery
process more to my speed of adaptation. To capture some
of the dynamics, I made a composite video from photos
demonstrating the overall retrieval
process (12 Mb mpeg video).
Shown here is an overview as seen from the
Sea Breeze Marina - where you can see both Pearman supports and the
gap where the truss used to live.
the east cantilevered segment
and the west cantilevered segment
What remains is mostly scrap pieces - shears doing their thing
These next photos show raising one of the last segments (barely visible here)
Using the shear to assist the lifting process
and raising
raising
raising
lowering
and resting on the barge
Now the shear takes over and startes removing segments - start
and finish
Then on my side (west) - start
and finish
then laying the skeleton down into the eating position
where the shear chews away
and chews until the plate is clean