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September 21, 2005: Coleman Blvd Recycle Center

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

Click 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.

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