Truck Week: Medium size Stone Delivery

The core of the jetty was filled medium size stones. These were brought in by dump truck. A large pile of this stone was created near the Merrimack River to make it easily accessible for the crane to grab it with clamshell bucket. The follow video shows a medium size stone delivery by dump truck. Not the most exciting but part of the whole process. The sound the stones tumbling out of the truck can be heard on the video.

Video of a truck dumping stone on Salisbury Beach.

Dump truck waiting in line for  access to the beach to made his delivery.

The dump truck back into the pile.

 

Unloading the medium size stones.

Truck Week - Stone Delivery: Salisbury Square to North Jetty

Over the course of the summer, I got video footage of the various flatbed trucks transporting the multi-ton stones to the north jetty construction site. The videos were taken at different locations along the route from Salisbury Square  to to beach staging area. I tried to get various landmarks in some of videos to denote the location. The video below is compilation of different video clips and different trucks. I have put them together in sequence to show the travel route.As you can see from the video much of the trucking took place during the busy summer beach season.The clip of the truck coming through the gate area shows one panicked person running to moving their car as the truck arrives. It turns out the truck had plenty of room to maneuver around the parked cars. The truck drivers were very conscientious and professional. They handle the cars, bicyclists, and people walking around with ease and safety. Most of the deliveries occurred during the morning hours to avoid the traffic backups especially during the hot weeks.

Video of flatbed trucks delivery stone for the jetty repairs.

Most of the trucks went around the gatehouse building. On this occasion one went through the center gateway.

Driving past the marshes.

Handicap accessible pavilion at Salisbury Beach State Reservation in the background.

A sharp looking rig.

Truck passing in front bathhouse.

Making the turn inside the chain linked fenced off area of parking lot.

Truck Week: Accordion 18-Wheeler Truck

The large multi-ton stone blocks are delivered to the Salisbury jetty on flatbed trucks. So, I was surprised to see a nice looking black colored big rig with a box trailer pull out on the beach. The driver got out of the rig and pull a long metal pole off the side of the trailer. He walk to the back of the trailer and then rolled up a canopy cover the back of it. Then he proceed to push the canopy cover forward towards to the front of trailer. It squished together like an accordion revealing two huge stones. After the stones were unloaded by the excavator, he pulled the accordion canopy back out. The cover presumably makes then truck more aerodynamic and reduces fuel costs.

 

Black truck with accordion canopy covering a flat bed trailer.

 

Close-up of the canopy

 

An interior view of canopy showing the metal framework.

Itty-Bitty Tugboat

The latest addition to the equipment at the Salisbury Jetty construction site is a small tugboat. It is flat bottomed rectangular metal hull with push bars in the from. It is equipped with an outboard motor. On the bottom are three short keels or fins. It was trucked into parking lot and pickup by the excavator which carried it down to the Merrimack River. I a got a short segment of video footage on it before it ducked out of sight between the other tractor.

Short video segment of the excavator moving the small tugboat

Lined Up

The construction site only had a skeleton crew on the day this photo was taken. The tractors were nice and neatly lined up on the beach.Can you see the tracked dump truck? It blends in against the yellow body of the excavator.

A Japanese family was visiting Salisbury Beach State Reservation. They took their shoes off and neatly lined them up on the boardwalk before going done to ocean.

Video of Work on the Outer Jetty as seen from the Low Tide Line

I also shot a short video from the low tide line of work going on the outer jetty. Two of the excavators were busy moving stones around. The crane was not very active.the stones in the foreground are the groin (short spur jetty).

Somedays, there is lot action at the construction site and other days there is not much going on. This was one of those quieter days.

View from the Low Tide Line

All of these photos are from the low tide line. They offer a different perspective on the construction site.

Repairs on the groin have processed rapidly.

New stone added to groin s part of process of rebuilding it.

A view of Salisbury water tower  and beach.

The pile of small and medium size stone waiting to be loaded onto the scowls.