This installment is going to be mostly a photo essay. Working machines doing what they do best, drill and dig. It is mainly for the people who worked on the S2S project and road construction geeks. In construction language, it's called "blasting porn"....
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| Above Wall 76..below Cut 9. The excavators are removing material that gets tossed down from the Cut 9 bench. The wheel loader is patching the existing highway to repair the damage done by casting material down.... directly to the road surface in closures...either at night or in brief daytime road closures |
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| Service truck and rock crusher at Cut 11 |
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| Cut 10 |
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| South interchange Seg 1 concrete pump |
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| Beside the highway at Cut 11, rock hammer and excavator to feed the crusher |
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| Cut 10 and 11 |
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| Davey-Kent drill |
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| Doodson's corner |
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| Doodson's corner, two Ranger 800's |
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| Bridge entering Squamish from the south side |
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| Eagleridge parking lot...769 haul trucks and 1250 Komatsu being assembled |
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| Komatsu1250 |
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| Komatsu 1250 |
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| Seg 1 below the Upper Levels highway |
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| Above Cut 10 beside the old highway |
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| Placing blast mats |
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| In the middle of the ferry lanes, blasting for a traffic sign base |
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| Day one of Ranger rock drill number one delivered to the Sea to Sky project....this is at Segment two, with Jim McBrides crew |
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| Drill No.1 paddling south on the Squamish highway to go and find some rock to test drill |
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| Setting up to drill holes for rock anchors at Segment one, below the Upper Levels Highway |
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| Segment two hoe-drill and crew came down to help us at the beginning of Cut4 |
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| Cut 4, Segment one |
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| Cut 4, right above the Eagleridge parking lot |
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| Eagleridge parking lot, drills working on Cut 4 |
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| Backside of Cut 4, setting up for drilling the pre-shear holes |
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| Drilling through the concrete footing to install 10 meter long anchor bolts. If you are an engineer, planning to build one of these walls...could you please not have drillers try to drill through 10 feet of rebar steel. Rock drills and rock drillers don't really like fighting with reinforcing steel. It tears the machine up and irritates the shit out of the drillers.Design in some plastic sleeves where ever you want the anchors. Please and thank-you |
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| This guy is the eyeballs for the driller, who can't see whats going on when the mast is in this position. |
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| the team...blaster and hoe operator lifting the blast mats |
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| Drilling the pre-shear line....Cut 4 |
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| Drilling 4 inch blast holes for an 11,000 cubic meter blast in Cut 4 |
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| Drilling for rock anchors on top of Cut 10 |
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| Big machine/small machine working on pole holes for Hydro/Telus | . |
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| The blasters getting a shot ready on a rock outcropping in one of the large fill sites |
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| Hoe-drill at Cut 10 in the early days |
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| Two Ranger drills on Cut 5 above the ferry ticket booths |
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| Rock drill working up on the cut at Darrell Bay, Segment 3....across from the Woodfibre ferry terminal |
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| Darrell Bay cut |
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| Lonely little air-track drill plunking away at the pre-shear line....what that antique was doing there...I have no idea. |
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| Blocky, seamy and hard rock made for some spectacular fly-rock shots...I'm glad I wasn't there, to have to fight with that stuff |
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| Rock hammer attached to an excavator to reduce the boulders down to size |
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| Rock drill just off the highway at the north end of Brittania |
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| South end of the Darrell Bay cut |
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| A beautiful day at Cut 10, Segment one |
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| Drilling and blasting between lanes of traffic at the south interchange of Segment one |
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| This is Seg two or three...hanging an air-track drill from a crane to drill anchor bolts |
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| The guys on the ground are wondering who is in the helicopter, while they are doing this "unique" maneuver |
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Old tank drill with a 123 hammer!! belonging to a contractor on the project
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| Long view, the tank drill is up on the bench, other side of highway...hoe and rock-truck below the highway....railroad tracks below them |
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| Drill and powder truck on top of a pioneering trail |
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| Segment one blasters getting ready to fix up some ditch-line at Cut 5 |
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| Segment two, drilling , digging and hauling |
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| Seg two hoe-drill at bottom of a big cut |
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| Segment one, north end of the Cut 10 area...above the retaining wall and railroad tracks |
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| One of the big fills going in....a lift at a time....Segment one |
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| Same fill site, Robin MacGregor ( Goldwing Helicopters )taking off |
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| Cluster of machines beside a gravel fill/grading operation |
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| Seg one, north end of Cut 10...maybe technically Cut 11 |
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| Long view of same area Cut 10/11...below highway and above the tracks |
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| Cut 8...385 Cat hoe loading to a Cat 769 haul truck |
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| Cut 8 loading out |
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| Concrete pour Seg 2 or three...below the highway |
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| Rock drills at Seg two |
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| Secret test site for MSE wall construction....pretty much the construction equivalent of Area 51 |
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| Randy C...not afraid of heights...stripping overburden off of the top of Cut 8 |
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