Being Called Back into Service

In the last video post, only two crane barges were left on site, and both were anchored in Merrimack River waiting to leave. The next thing I know, one the crane barges has been brought back to the Salisbury, and flatbed trucks start arriving with large boulders. An excavator unloads the trucks and later grabs the stones and dumps them over the concrete seawall. A second excavator with a bucket moves them to the barge. The crane then lifts them onto the crane barge itself. All the stone scowls had already been shipped our. I initially thought that they maybe weighing the barge down to weather out the predicted hurricane. About a week and half later I found them unloading the stone at the tip of the south jetty. The high seas kicked up by the off shore hurricane caused some delays. Apparently, the Army Corp was not satisfied with the additional work on the south jetty and required more stones.

 

Truck load of stone arrives

 

Excavators pushes a bucket for a bobcat tractor out of the way.

Close-up showing the size of the rocks

 

Crane loading stone onto the barge

Stone stored on the crane barge deck.