Saturday, November 9, 2013

Bridge Construction Videos, Part 3 - still mixing and pouring, but also smoothing the surface

As I've been watching all of these videos of the bridge construction work (see Part 1 and Part 2) it occurred to me to wonder how many bucket loads of concrete it took to complete the work of this one day. I had Allen do the calculations, taking into consideration that the buckets were being filled about 1/2 - 2/3 full each time. His answer? 2500 bucket loads. 2500 trips back and forth from the mixers to the edge of the pour. That would certainly make for a long day!













 . . . and, another section of the bridge deck is poured!




Next up . . . videos of cars and trucks crossing the existing cable bridge! I think you're gonna like these!

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