Bridge demo

[The Goat 812]

http://youtu.be/Mhgk-4ZOEAg

First 700 feet of the 89 year old Milton Madison bridge was blasted and dropped today. The bridge spans the Ohio river between Milton Ky. And Madison IN. Now comes the fun part of picking it all out of the river.

 

[The Goat 812]

manitowoc 999 with 190 ft of boom I'm running to pull 50,000 pds at a time.

 

[The Goat 812]

http://www.miltonmadisonbridge.com/

More info if interested.

 

[CheapJ7]

How do you get it all out of the river?

 

[ibrokeit]

How do you get it all out of the river?

Crane

 

[scrowexj]

So do you have divers hooking it all up under water or magnet on the bottom of the cable? Anyways looks like an awesome job

 

[85toyo]

Blowing **** up is cool but cutting it apart and picking out sections at a time with a crane would have been smarter IMO.

 

[The Goat 812]

 

[The Goat 812]

 

[The Goat 812]

Blowing the bridge and dropping it in the water is faster and safer. When they rig the explosives they rig it to drop it as well as cut it. When it hit the water they then brought out an excavator with a shear to cut the top cord of the bridge. After that we use the crane I'm running to get the biggest pieces and then use the excavator to feel around in the river and get the pieces left under the water. The piece in the picture that's hooked to the crane was 60,000 pounds. The pic of the guys in the man lift is showing them torching and rigging the piece.

 

[The Goat 812]

Divers will come in when we think its clear and search the bottom of the river to ensure that all the steel is out.

 

[The Goat 812]

100,000 on the hook

 

[ridered3]

So do y'all just haul all the metal off for scrap or what?

 

[The Goat 812]

Yep it's all goin to scrap. Except for the pieces I'm carting off to built a fab table out of.

 

[Lil ugly]

Pretty cool. We are not allowed to do very much demo like that here in Fl due to all of the protected species.