March 12, 2007: Mickey and team: loading the last Grace pier
Today is loading day - Mickey and Ken on the right and Carlos and
Michael on the left (I think). Loading consists of placing 1 or more
charges with a detonator in the hole, followed by another charge or
spacer or stemming. This is tamped into place, the shock tube tail is
left hanging to be tied in with the other shock tubes in a predetermined
sequence. Sparky got several sequences of loading which I synthesized
into short video segments
Only Sparky could catch such an artistic view of the morning work site
The Seabreeze windows are boarded up (again)
I am speculating that Carlos and Michael are loading on the left
while Mickey and Ken are loading on the right. A good example of
parallel processing
Another view of dual processing
Closer
Here Carlos and Michael are loading
and tamping
Takes two to tamp
Mickey and Ken tieing in a leader while Carlos and Michael loading on the
left
A closer view of Mickey connecting the shock tubes
A close image of the shock tube leader
A closer view of Mickey
With Carlos and Michael supervising?
Not only are ironworkers acrobats - blasters can also be acrobats
An interesting view of the worksite
Mickey loading a charge of dynamite
A handoff from Ken
Ken preparing another charge
Mickey inserting a spacer
and Ken hands another spacer to Mickey
Then tamping. Click to
watch Mickey and Ken load.
More loading by Mickey
And a last look at the worksite
