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Phila Pa, Peir 122 ore unloading cranes demolition.
December 15, 2009
5:41 PM
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i heard that it is terrasan doing the job and the equipment is rented

December 2, 2009
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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.

November 30, 2009
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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 shit!!!!! 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.....

November 29, 2009
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I believe that is Terrasan doing that job.

November 28, 2009
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very cool video. how old was that crane?

November 26, 2009
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Thanks, Does anybody know who the contractor is? By the looks of the equipment they own it looks like it is either geppert or jpc. I believe that only the 4 cranes are going down and the rest of the site is going to remain the same.

November 26, 2009
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Nice!:spinningsmile:

November 25, 2009
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Better Late than never. Good video.

November 25, 2009
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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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