Changing the face of Charleston : The unbuilding of the Grace and Pearman Bridges
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September 23, 2006:
Building Grace's crutch

A week ago, Sparky noticed the new support under Grace's roadbed girders

and last Friday, here is the foundation that will support Grace's mid section while Chris and our favorite ironworker acrobats unbuild Grace's truss

The worksite

Pipes for building the supports

and our acrobats moving into position

This doesn't look like Lewis - but he's wearing a blue shirt - so it must be Kevin

a view from the side

Kevin working on the new support beam

The support pipes

with drilling template in place

Kevin at the controls

Looking up

The supervisor

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