Tradepoint Atlantic dices 50,000 tons of Baltimore’s Key Bridge steel
for recycling
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/04/13/tradepoint-atlantic-key-bridge-steel/
As one worker cut into a piece of steel with a torch, another operated
an excavator — missing at first, but then picking up another portion of
what used to be the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

The pieces they each wrangled Friday couldn’t have weighed more than one
short ton, less than 0.02% of the 50,000 short tons of bridge wreckage
that fell into the nearby Patapsco River. Yet they represented a tiny
step in a painstaking, arduous process.

When the Key Bridge collapsed into the midnight-black water in the early
hours of March 26, it created a seemingly insurmountable task: clearing
the channel of debris and the massive cargo ship that created the mess.
The scale of the salvage job is difficult to comprehend, and although
crews have begun to remove the wreckage from the channel, piece by
piece, one can’t simply throw thousands of tons into a trash bin.

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BTW, they plan to use hydraulic shears to cut the bridge into pieces.
Especially the underwater parts, this sounds to me like a good idea. I
know one can use a torch underwater, but it seems the water would cool
things pretty relentlessly, and the shears don't have that problem.

micky wrote:
> Tradepoint Atlantic dices 50,000 tons of Baltimore’s Key Bridge steel
> for recycling
> https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/04/13/tradepoint-atlantic-key-bridge-steel/
> As one worker cut into a piece of steel with a torch, another operated
> an excavator — missing at first, but then picking up another portion of
> what used to be the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
>
> The pieces they each wrangled Friday couldn’t have weighed more than one
> short ton, less than 0.02% of the 50,000 short tons of bridge wreckage
> that fell into the nearby Patapsco River. Yet they represented a tiny
> step in a painstaking, arduous process.
>
> When the Key Bridge collapsed into the midnight-black water in the early
> hours of March 26, it created a seemingly insurmountable task: clearing
> the channel of debris and the massive cargo ship that created the mess.
> The scale of the salvage job is difficult to comprehend, and although
> crews have begun to remove the wreckage from the channel, piece by
> piece, one can’t simply throw thousands of tons into a trash bin.
>
> .....
>
>
> When I tried to highlight more than this, all the prior highlighting
> disappeared, 3 times. Have they come up with an invisible way to limit
> copying?
>
> BTW, they plan to use hydraulic shears to cut the bridge into pieces.
> Especially the underwater parts, this sounds to me like a good idea. I
> know one can use a torch underwater, but it seems the water would cool
> things pretty relentlessly, and the shears don't have that problem.

Did Democrat Dick Cheney's Halliburton get the contract or was it awarded to the Biden Crime Family?

On 4/13/2024 2:51 PM, micky wrote:
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> When I tried to highlight more than this, all the prior highlighting
> disappeared, 3 times. Have they come up with an invisible way to limit
> copying?
>

My answer may be wrong, but I believe that USENET groups are not HTML
compatible and only ASCII or some similar plain text coding is used in
the posts. Highlighting, bolding, italics, and many other fonts we're
used to seeing and perhaps using on other platforms won't appear in a
USENET posting.