Awesome Demolition Excavators at Golden Gate Bridge Approach Demo Last Night

[Wolf]

Yes, I saw the pictures from the websiite, but these I took Friday night when the started the demo. Got some more Saturday night that I will post soon.

[ddigger]

Nice pics John! Thanks for the note. I left the Davis job on Friday, and start a big clearing job in the morning at Beal AFB.

[Wolf]

Nice. How many houses you gonna wreck on the base?

[roadbuilder6]

I like the 336 or 345 with hyd thumb

[ddigger]

This time its a 1000 trees, clearing not demo. All the stinking trees we had to work around and not damage while we were wrecking the houses on the last go round. Go figure.

[Wolf]

Ha! They made you leave the trees when you cleared the houses, and now you gotta go back and pull out the trees? That is too crazy. That's our tax dollars at work. (At least they are going to a good cause---you!) Well, 1,000 trees should be fun.

How are you going to load them out once you knock them down with the track hoe? Do you have to grind them up, or can you load them into the dump trailers as is?

[Wolf]

They had a bunch of 375s and 385s on the job. They also had a 5110 that just knocked the crap out of the old roadway. The power in that machine is unbelievable. I had never seen one that big.

I will post the 5110 picture later.

All the best.

[Wolf]

This is the new tunnel that will open Monday morning commute.

Demo guys had to knock down the entire Golden Gate Bridge approach over the weekend so that they could build the new roadway Sunday through this tunnel.

What an awesome job. You gotta hand it to these guys. They are the best, and the whole city of San Francisco is proud of them for sure.

[hvy 1ton]

That's probably the only 5110 with a thumb around. Progressive link and everything.

[Wolf]

Yeah, you should have seen the power the 5150 had tearing down the roadway in San Francisco Friday night. AWESOME!

Total power. A beautiful sight.