Loading & Unloading the Stone Buckets

I had been wondering for a while how the construction crew unloaded the stone in the buckets onto jetty. I finally got a chance to video the process. Two to three stone buckets are loaded either onto the crane barge or into the stone scowl and brought out to the Salisbury jetty. Four steel cables are attached to the bucket, one at each corner. The bucket is lifted off the barge or scowl and set down on the jetty. The construction workers then remove two of the cables on one end of the bucket, the other two are left attached. The crane lifts up one end of the bucket dumping the stones onto the jetty. The bucket is then swung back to the scowl. The excavator moves into to rearrange the stones.

The video briefly recaps the whole process: It shows a dump truck delivering the small and medium size stones. The crane lifting the bucket from the beach staging area and swinging it over to the scowl. (I never got a chance to see the excavators loading the bucket). Finally the  crane dumping the bucket on the jetty. The process of dumping the stone on the jetty took some time. The video has been edited to show the highlights of the process.

 

Two stone buckets sitting in the scowl waiting to be take out to the jetty.

 

Dump truck delivering stone.