All in a Day's Work (Park 3) - Small Necessities

Okay ... now for the less glamorous side of construction site operations at the mouth of the Merrimack River. Normally at most job sites, the pump truck can drive up to the portable toilets to empty and clean them. This is not an option for the portable toilets on the barges. The solution is to swap them out. The excavator picks it up at the parking lot, lifting it with a cable attached to end of the arm, and drives down to the beach. The excavator drops off the clean unit, and pickups up the used one. Obviously, a certain amount of care needs to be taken not swing the toilets too much.

A construction worker than hooks a cable from the crane to the toilet and it gets lifted and swung over to the barge.

I set out to document all aspects of the repairs to Salisbury jetty. This is not the most exciting or interesting topic but it is part of the documentation. It is rather amusing to watch a half million dollar tractor being used to move a portable toilet around.

Small necessities ...