RB4engineer;13158 said:
there will be some nice scrap with those... I cut up part of a gantry crane before with a shear.... All the steel was laminated 4 and 5 times thick!!!!! you had to peel the layers with the shear and there was so much steel not all of it could be cut with a torch.....
I heard that rail road track shears are good at cutting steel in thick gauge. That would work like magic one these old cranes.
Wolf those 4 cranes where built between 1950 to 1954, so they are only 56-59 years old or so.
I am a little late posting this because I just found out about it today but on Nov 20, 2009 one of the 4 cranes who used to be operated by Conrail was demolished and are going to be processed for scrap.. The cranes locations are south of the Walt Whitman Bridge and are before the Philadelphia naval yard in Conrail's yard. The contractor on site used 2 excavators which pulled the old steel gantry crane off it tracks, crashing it to the ground. The cranes at one time where used to unload ore and possibly coal.
Not my video. The video shows the demolition of the first gantry crane.
YouTube - Pier 124.MOV
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