This, for me, is as interesting as watching Testa unpour the
concrete roadway. Much of the road is made of reinforced concrete including
the side barriers and the roadway. Coleman Blvd has become sort of a
recyling center where the concrete is separated from the rebar and the
rebar is cut into smaller pieces. Here is one view of the what I call
the recycling center.
And here you can see a stack of roadway segments, side barriers and
who know what else.
Looking along Coleman Blvd is the loading and unloading area
Jack Foley runs this 365 shear and here is cutting the rebar
into short segments.
Here - are Jack's jaws in action - taking a bite (left) and biting (right).
The result is short pieces of rebar that can be easily reprocessed
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to watch Jack at work (10 Mb quicktime video). He is picking up a tangle
of long rebar pieces and cutting them into smaller pieces and placing them
in a pile of short rebar pieces.
And check out the housekeeping. From the concrete roadway segments,
Jack has built a concrete floor as a work
surface. With Freyssinet cables shining in the background on the new Ravenel
Bridge - it makes a great place to work.
and here are the players in our recycling team - Jack (left)
and Michael (inside right)
and Richie (outside right) who does the burning,
fetching and toting from the bridge worksite (accepting what Michael gives him)
to the recycling center where he contributes to Jack's pile of stuff.