Compilation of work performed while building the Chelsea Street Bridge in East Boston, Massachusetts from February -December 2010.
Featuring the work of J.F. White Contracting, Co.
Soundtrack: Daft Punk, 'Rinzler'
Special Thanks to:
MassDOT
JF White Contracting Co.
Local 7 Ironworkers
Local 4 Operating Engineers
Local 22 Laborers
Saugus Construction
Hallamore Crane
Compilation of work performed while building the Chelsea Street Bridge in East Boston, Massachusetts from February -December 2010.
Featuring the work of J.F. White Contracting, Co.
Soundtrack: Daft Punk, 'Rinzler'
Special Thanks to:
MassDOT
JF White Contracting Co.
Local 7 Ironworkers
Local 4 Operating Engineers
Local 22 Laborers
Saugus Construction
Hallamore Crane
This is a compilation of the demolition of Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands, New Jersey.
Shot during the summer of 2010
Soundtrack: Daft Punk, 'Fall'
Demolition by: The Gramercy Group
Working in sweltering 94 degree high humidity heat, The CRISDEL Group, Inc. out of South Plainfield, NJ (www.crisdel.com) has slowly been laying asphalt for the New Meadowland's Stadium parking lot since Gramercy Group began filling in the Giants Stadium bowl.
250,000 cubic yards, 12 feet thick, of compacted and compressed waste concrete rubble and historical Meadowland's fill with a 2 foot sand cap is all that remains of Giants Stadium.
The paving…
The age old question of old school versus modern technology is played out during the demolition of 2 warehouse buildings in Lowell, MA.
The classic tried and true Wrecking Ball goes heads up against a modern monster the High Reach Demolition Excavator.
Watch as they battle each other for supremacy in the field while slowly chiseling away at their respective concrete reinforced castles.
The 1971 Link Belt HC238 Truck crane with no windows, no ac,…
Camera: Flip Ultra HD
Edited with iMovieHD
Soundtrack: JT Bruce
Photography by Stephen SetteDucati
Testa Corp's Gridiron Artisans change out the cables holding the wrecking ball to their 1971 HC238 Link Belt truck crane. In addition to changing the cables they also upgrade the shock absorbing truck tires that sit in between the clevis and the wrecking ball.
The Link Belt has a boom of 160 feet is in full dress counterweights with a 125 ton lifting…
Through a Facebook connection I heard that this machine was being dismantled and lifted out of the WTC. I dropped everything, gathered my equipment and tried to take a two hour nap. I then drove the 4 hours to NYC and arrived at dawn and spent 9 long hours on the site.
Exhausted I then drove to NJ, checked into my hotel and slept from 7PM til 2AM. I awoke to pouring rain, unplugged my battery chargers, checked out of the hotel, and drove to the…
After the last standing structure of Giants Stadium was brought to the ground and clean up was complete a new task began. Filling in the bowl and foundations of where the stadium once stood.
The month long process of moving 250,000 cubic yards of excavated soil from the New Meadowlands Stadium excavation and combining it with crushed concrete fill was an arduous process.
Here are some of the machines that were used and a look at what it takes to…
Local 7 Ironworkers and Hallamore Crane Operations Crew reeve the block of a Demag AC 600-ton telescoping crane from left to right with 24 mm CASAR cable and 1,804 feet of line on the main winch.
Working as a team they thread the cable on a brisk April dawn in preparation for a 200-ton trip and lift of a 120 foot tall bridge tower section in Chelsea, MA.
Camera and Edit: Stephen SetteDucati
Principal Photography: Canon 5D HD Video
Secondary Unit:…
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