From Truck to Barge

This video illustrates the process of moving the stones from flatbed trucks into the stone scowls used to move the stones out to the Salisbury jetty. When the flatbed trucks arrived they backed out onto the beach. An excavator carefully removes the stones from the truck. Care needs to be taken to get a firm grip on the stone so it will not drop and damage the truck. As the rest of the video shows, dropped stones is a common problem. It doesn't really matter around the rest of construction site, the stone will end up on the sand.

The stones are initially placed in a pile near the trucks. They are subsequently moved by excavator to a stockpile staging area. From there they moved down to the beach along the Merrimack River where a crane picks them up and loads them into a scowl (i.e. barge).

Stone blocks in the stone scowl (barge)

Stockpiled stones waiting to be moved to the beach to be loaded on to the scowl.

A wider view showing the large amount of stone stockpiled.