King of the Mountain

Up to mid-July, the vast majority of stone shipments coming into the Salisbury Jetty were multi-ton stone blocks. Beginning mid-July, dump truck loads of crushed stone along with small and medium size stones have been coming in daily. The dump trucks back in along the construction road onto the beach and drop off their load. Each load needs to be moved to make way for the next dump truck. An excavator was kept busy moving the newly arrived stones to another place. A small "mountain" of stone built up.

The excavator needed to keep the area immediately in front of the pile level and packed down for the trucks. The video shows what happens when the unloading area has too steep an angle. A dump truck pulls in tries to unload but the stone will not come out. The truck has to pull forward to a more level section to unload.