Crane Works on Outer Jetty

One of the crane barges was anchor about half way out along the Salisbury jetty. It was picking up some of the stone blocks that had slid down the side the jetty and bringing them up to near the top. I was only able to get some limited video that day because the camera ran out memory on the card. The process of moving stones around with a crane equipped with a grapple is rather slow. The video is edited to "speed up" the process by showing clips of key moments in the process and editing out the slower sections of the crane trying to line up the grapple in the right position to grab a stone. We plan on getting some better footage hopefully in the near future.

A third crane arrived sometime during the week of of June 10. It has a white boom rather than a red one like he other two cranes. A second stone transport barge also arrived. A good place to view the cranes is to go to the northern end of Plum Island. Free parking is very limited but there is a paid parking lot. If you walk through the paid lot, you will find a nice board walk (handicap accessible) just behind the restroom building. You can get a really good view from the end of board walk. Binoculars with get you nice close-up view of the action.