Videos show demolition crews cutting sections of Baltimore's Key Bridge
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- čas přidán 30. 03. 2024
- Videos and photos released by officials show teams in protective gear using an "exothermic cutting torch" on sections of the steel Francisc Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore as part of their massive cleanup efforts.
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It’s hard working blue collar men like this and the poor workers who were lost in this tragedy that really make the world go round.
Yea where are all the young immature feminists that say they don t need men to survive?
@@fritzsuesitting quiet just watching the hard work get done. Then they’ll all drive over the finished neatly constructed bridge once it’s complete while they’re in their warm comfy cars drinking their Starbucks
Yes, not evil, greedly, soulless politicians, activists and their demonic friends.
@@fritzsueNowhere to be found.
@@fritzsueYou can’t live your life like normal anymore. The internet and it’s outrage bait got you uptight 24/7
I can tell you those guys are getting paid like you wouldn't believe, but the work is definitely no stroll in the park. Not only do they have to follow all safety protocols, but the skill and know how it takes to dismantle a wrecked bridge. Hats off to them 👷🏽
@big...as I am watching, I was wondering where you even find the experienced skilled labor to dismantle this structure. These guys aren't hanging around Home Depot with "will work for food" signs. Also, what about all the equipment needed...transportation, logistics, etc?? This is a huge undertaking!!
From the UK here, who is paying for this, who's going to pay for a new bridge, is it the US government or the ships insurance company?
Robotic with mounted cameras maybe better and safer for these tasks.. ?
These guys are Union Ironworkers and are getting paid hourly wages for what their contract is,also these guys know what they are doing.They built that bridge and after they take it down they will build the new one
This is what my grandson does for a living. Very hard work but the pay is amazing.
This is a sad event but our high school kids should see the importance of blue collar workers . These workers are high skill and high paid . A millwright , master craftman , crane operator , rigger , diver and other blue collar workers are working together to help the port to reopen .
TRUE people that Master their trade and are self employed can raise a family well on one paycheck.. The key is truly Mastering your trade and working for yourself.
Kudos and respect to those Ironworkers. There's gonna be Davis/Bacon wages, hazard pay and all the overtime they can handle. Stay safe.
They're Journeyman Master Welders. Ironworkers will be the guys who help build the bridge. My grandson does this kind of work.
@@suzanne9150 Thanks for the correction Suzanne. I'm from an IBEW family, fed Union with my oatmeal. but I went over to the white collar button pusher (engineering 😱) side. I don't know those guys personally but I've known many of their brothers in labor. Like Aretha said; R.E.S.P.E.C.T. It's hilarious and tragic that so many people who have never held a torch or swung a heavy tool know so little and yet still have so much to say about how a job like this should go. I say put on some Carhartt, show up at 6 AM, work 8-10 hours in pouring rain, bowing snow or pitch dark waters for a couple decades then they will have something to say worth listening to.
Its good to see safety taken seriously. One of the biggest tragedys and the fight still continues is for the 911 cleanup workers and first responders that got sick and died from the toxic environment.
These guys are spending their Easter weekend over the water in the wind and rain cutting steel instead of spending it with their families. Oh, and there's a natural gas pipeline under the harbor running beneath the bridge. BG & E turned off the gas but they still have to take it into consideration. Thanks, Hons!
More than likely getting triple time pay. No tradesman is working a holiday on flat time trust me they’re getting paid well for their hard work.
@@myhandle90 As they should be, IMO!
@@myhandle90 All the money in the world isn't going to help in the case of that lightning that we had last night or if a massive block of steel swings the wrong way. The construction workers fixing potholes on the bridge at 1 am in the morning were making good money too.
Those guys don’t mind. They are making big money.
BG&E is A+ prepared. Public school shop classes and trade schools put these ironworkers on the path to success. They are like the blacksmiths of old, true technicians.
These beams are loaded in random ways...
When they get cut, they may move dangerously "Ping"
The salvage crews know what they are doing. I hope
Pucker factor ...
The companies that survive, know about that stuff. But there's always something else...
Yea id be nervous of a shift in weight or a major movement when the cut is complete
I am sure that there are structural engineers working double OT designing the dismantle sequence required.
So many factors to be taken into account it would make ones head spin!
Absolutely, those workers are being told it's safe to cut those beams! This ain't over yet! I can only hope there's a large amount of "luck" for those men in the basket, when they cut beam that has been holding the stress in place lets go!
My hat off to these people. I could not see myself up there.
30/hr job. I don't think these are U S. ironworkers tho. I'm a welder from buffalo NY for only 25yrs. These torch guys look like some real bosses.
Is probably José and Juan with the torch.
@@carlospinones2768jose and juan can get it 🤪
@@HarvardArchaeologyI believe they are government employees AKA army corps of engineers
Work in demolition this is difficult
A very long road ahead. God bless these workers!
A floating crane that can lift 1000 tons is the largest on the East Coast? Here in Rotterdam/Netherlands there is a 16,000 t in the harbor. He could lift the bridge parts at once.
What you would want is two large cranes lifting two ends of a truss section, slipping a barge underneath and then lowering the truss onto the barge for hauling away.
And yes, Europe does have a number of much larger capacity ocean going and harbor cranes.
You think working on solid ground as an operator was difficult, try working on a moving barge!
Mad respect for all those involved. Recover those lost souls, and return home each night. As a union carpenter of 43 years, all trades are very proud of you all.
The men who do this type of work are hard men able to almost me ove mountains. I know a few of them and i count myself fortunate to know them.
Oh brother! 😂
@@lahaina4791 "You can see the steam rising from the glistening sweat on their pulsating biceps..." er... oh wait... 🙂
The engineers trying to work out where to cut have a difficult task. Unknown loads, moving water, wind….I wonder if they modelled the whole “structure “ in a cad program over the last few days? Working out how to get the demo done, and keep the crews safe must be a lot of work and expertise.
On tv, from a distance it looks like a lot of wreckage, but when you see how big each individual piece of steel is, you know it’s going to be a long time before it’s all done.
I'd be really interested to hear about the process of cutting the steel while accounting for the preloaded stresses from the twisted metal. Hats off to those workers.
Cleaning up will be like playing Kerplunk. One bad move and everything could collapse
o boy, the torch pucker ! the most nerve-wracking of projects
Honest question for any iron workers out there. When making a cut like this, is there anyway to tell if the beam is under tension beforehand? Like how do they know it's not going to jump sideways as soon as the cut is completed (or near completed)? In a collapse like this I would think it would be hard to tell with all the chaos and how the beams ended up sitting. ("Tension" might not be the right word. But you know, like lateral force, stress, or strain, or something like that)
The simple answer is yes. When you start to cut you will see the flange of the beam try and twist but typically you tell by looking at it which way it’s gonna try to fall if the crane isn’t hooked to it
Why is that governor is always talking like he's giving some sort of historic speech? Just be real dude.
He took lessons from Obama.
I'm from Maryland he is new he just got elected to his first major office, but yes it is super annoying.
I can understand that being new, he wants to make a good impression. But him speaking like this just makes him seem detached from the average person. He can speak with authority and leadership without sounding like an actor playing a politician in a movie.
He’s running for the senate or president
politics - what else
ok that looks even more dangerous then when the bridge collapsed
Tricky dangerous business. Hat's off to these workers.
How do they know what to remove without causing instability?
Engineers inspected it and made a plan
Yeah, there are probably several structural engineers on site making calculations on weights, balance, and stresses on any piece they cut before even starting a cut.
Stressometer 😮
A wing and a prayer.
They use equipment much like an X-ray . My grandson does this kind of work.
God it looks like it’s going to take a long time to cut through all that metal. They are out there working their butts off.
Why are there no videos of demolition crews cleaning up all the bridges in Ukraine ?? US get your priorities right
I wonder if cutting explosives will be used in parts of the demolition. Some of those trusses have to be under big time stress. Have one let go in an unexpected way and it could bat you over to the shoreline...
Gas lines ran under the water that its sitting on. Gas is off, but...
Praying for all the engineers safety 🙏🙏🙏
Must have been a crazy scene on the bridge of the ship, the sound and motion of the ship when all that steel came down must have been intense.
R.I.P. to the poor souls lost
The news media needs to chill out. For 3 days now, I have hears nothing but “How safe are our bridges?” as if this bridge just decided to fall over, like there was a lack of maintenance.
That is not the case. This ship was nearly 900 feet long, weighing 100,000 tons, moving at 8.5 knots (9.75 mph). I don’t think there is a bridge in the world that will survive an impact like that to a main support pillar.
Bridges are designed to have protection around the pillar so that a ship can't get to the pillar. Cargo ships as large as we have now didn't exist when older bridges were built and so the protection isn't good enough. It's valid to be questioning what other bridges need to have their protection improved to keep this from happening.
It should not have been possible for the ship to reach the bridge. Most bridges of that size and importance have their supports surrounded by concrete and stone “dolphins” designed to stop, and probably sink, any wayward ship before it reaches the actual bridge.
That may be but that is not what I am hearing. Some of these reports are being written in such a way that they are ignoring that a moving ship of any size was even involved. What I am hearing is really falling into fear mongering because they are also giving the appearance that they are talking about bridges on dry land that will never see a ship passing.
A lot of math involved in this clean up. Imagine the calculations it takes to determine how to cut this up so a crane can lift it? And in what order. Not to mention the industrial sized plasma cutter, it's nothing short of amazing.
You said it! Now on top of that they think it maybe lying on top of a high pressure gas pipe line that runs the length of the bridge that can’t be good!
If I ever need a ASL interpreter, I want the one from the presser on Sparrows Point on March 29th. She is awesome and so animated.
Sometimes I wonder if the ASL interpreters might add in a few extra details, tell a few jokes or what have you.
This work cannot be outsourced or AI applied
Very difficult amd dangerous work.
Hope these are unionized workers whose safety will be prioritized.
It's people who do this for a living this type of work anyway AKA The army Corp of engineers construction people
My hats off to the men and possibly women! Ever cut a spring under tension? 😮
Its like theyre cutting trees down except way more dangerous
Serious amount of cutting here. Massive pieces of beam make that torch look tiny
Thank you to the Ironworkers, and be safe
Feel sorry for the guys working. With all the media pointing there cameras in their faces. Give them a break and let them get on with it.
Is there any such thing as an endothermic cutting torch?
The torch is using oxygen to absorb heat in a chemical reaction, hence endothermic.
Same oxygen is under high enough pressure to blow molten steel and heat away from the gap.
This single cut you are watching takes about $100 worth of oxygen.
Is it an acetylene torch?
@@chaytonhurlow840 Yes.
Arc plasma cutting is out of the question here.
It's just an oxy-acetylene torch.
@@Elo-hv3fw is that not carbon arc gouging?
Uhhh, EVERY cutting torch is exothermic, by definition.
I wonder how janet and kate feels about this, since Cumberland is only 2 hours away from the key bridge
Praying for success for all.
Very sad
Captain: I hit the bridge.
Insurance agent: You hit the what??
God please protect these workers
why wouldn’t they set charges, safety!
The army corps of engineers knows what they're doing
Wow those magnesium rods cut right through that steel..takes liquid oxygen to do that folks
Is there an ongoing investigation on the cargo ship, its' operation and maintenance? Why hasn't the company been identified and records of engine and components been made available to DOT publically? Who is the CEO COO?
You can Google all of that. The investigation in barely starting though.
"Why hasn't the company been identified" If you're asking that, you're clearing not qualified to operate the internet. Please step back from the keyboard or phone.
Process Being Used: while it looks like an thermal/oxygen lance at first, you can actually see the twisted oxy-fuel hose (likely either oxy-acetylene or oxy-propane) and two valves in another frame. So it appears to be a long 3'+ oxy-fuel torch with either a 70 or 180 degree head.
Can parts be airlifted??
That would not be practical
.. sure.. sky hook
I was thinking about that too
Not that weight. No helicopter in the world can pull that up.
Heli crain
why do you need to make a big speech congratulating yourself for fixing it before you go out and fix it?!
Politicians are the worst.
The main thing here is get the port open again so politicians stock dividends roll in again. Take care of the union workers and nevermind the small peripheral business.
It seems to me they were answering questions about the process ahead. That is the one of the jobs of politicians. They brought in the experts to answer the complex questions.
Need to search all them containers
Can you explain the difference between an exothermic cutting torch and an endothermic one?
I've cut steel many ways: oxy acetylene, oxy fuel/exothermic, arc gouge, plasma, laser, explosive lens. The only endothermic process I'm familiar with is water-jet with proprietary solute additives. There is no torch "endothermic" process that I have seen.
They're all exothermic, which means that it's a process that gives off heat. Once the metal is brought up to temperature, the iron will rapidly oxidize (burn) in the presence of oxygen.
There is no way to achieve a endothermic cutting torch. That is an oxymoron. Endothermic literally means absorbing heat.
Its probably just Acetylene and Oxygen. Some guy from the Iron Worker Hall gave the FED a fancy name to wax them on the price. I know from experience that cutting painted steel sucks. Green smoke is toxic and will gag you. Hopefully nothing is under tension either.
I believe it's just ultra-formal legal-speak. Or just some welder trolling news reporters :)
Saludos desde new York mi gente...
It seems to me all the reports they show it the same ones over and over. Just showing one crane over and over just moving it around not seen any of the bridge or anything being removed. But they keep saying debree has been removed. How come no one is videoing and showing the work?
0:19 I’ve seen lots of torch cutting In progress but no use of hydraulic shears which are in common use in demolition. A good deal of the structural steel members of the bridge would appear to be of a size which hydraulic shears could cope with.
Does anyone know if the blue crane on the spud scow is the 1,000-ton crane?? and if it's a Manitowoc??
yes, i know
@@Nicolewhite743😂my crain go up really fast
When they showed the big crane coming in yesterday, my recollection is that it was yellow.
The yellow crane is the 1k ton, not the crawler crane it's like a shear leg crane
Thank You, for your replies guys, So sorry that this catastrophe happened and human life was lost..
I hope no one else gets hurt and the new bridge is built quickly and safely..Respect from Vancouver Canada...
Curious as to the current scrap value of that steel??😮
Chines scrapyard owners be sitting on the beach watching there revenue go up
It will ship to China. 😮
@@lahaina4791 maybe India
"Free bridge, parts only, come and git it!"
Should have Flexi-Curity agrrements in place like most of Europe for the labor
Of course it's difficult for people that haven't worked a day in their life😡
Could of been worst working on this outside salvage . At least we're past the colder seasons and into spring.
weird.. where are the feminists claiming women and men should have equal pay? Looks like all hardworking men doing a dangerous high paying job.
Do they have something layed down to catch the little particles? Or will everything just fall into the water?
From the torches?
Those metal fragments aren't going to hurt anything, don't worry.
Slag
@@larryrowe5259 thank you
The whole bridge fell into the water...
Leroy Brown
They did not mention recovering remains of the last 4 victims 😥
Definitely WASN’T shot using a gimbal!
Don’t act like this is a natural disaster or a terrorist attack
Stop with the Eifel Tower comparison, no one has a perspective of the size of the Eifel tower. Just say it's a 984 feet long or 3 foot ball fields long.
Yeah, that sounded very movie-like...
Um, travelled much?
Yes, I've flown from New York to Paris which, as we all know, is aprox 9,271 Eiffel towers end to end. 🗼
@@bbsquared100 In short, this ship is the length of 984 one-foot replicas of the Eiffel tower.
I have the perspective.
That crane operator is earning money for his grandkids college tuition should they so choose to go.
They're going to be there awhile.
If only the Key bridge was built with adequate protection we all wouldn't be here. This bridge was built about the same time the Betsy Ross Bridge was built, however our bridge was built with huge dolphins on each side. How the Key bridge was built without them I will never understand.
how are they gonna get the SSCV Sleipnir past the william preston and Chesapeake Bay Bridge?
Are they going to disassemble it then reassemble the crane ship on the other side?
So how do they get the parts cut underwater?
Probably a crew in the water that able to cut
Same way under torch, and divers, look at tunnels same risks😮
Mostly fluff article with a lack of pertinent questions asked to the NTSB - like what is the maximum weight they can lift? We seen 200t pieces, but the bridge weighed over 4000t - that would be a whole lot of 200t chunks, most of them having to be cut underwater, much slower and riskier.
A salvage grab could be helpful for pieves under water up to 200tons.
🙏🙏🙏
I have a stupid question. Why can't the bolted sections be unscrewed?
What bolts? Could you be seeing rivets?
Looks like very dangerous work.
Those power poles have WAY MORE protection around them than the pin head single concrete dolphins to ‘protect’ that bridge!
Boy, someone sure 💩the bed when they said that was good enough!😢
If you want improvements, something has to give? What happened to Due Diligence
San Francisco bay bridge costs over a billion dollars in 2010 to finish construction. Today prices 2024 will cost trillions more to rebuild
trillions?
@@FordFalcon1962nBlueyuuuuuge biggly money 💰
The Bay Bridge was much bigger than this
don't forget to add in the cost of fraud and DEI
Trillions?
Only an idea but wouldn't plasma cutters be faster unless of course there's an issue with power source for them and things like that
There is an electrocution hazard around saltwater, plus the consumable parts of the plasma torch, and yes the power source is another issue. Keep in mind this steel is several inches thick.
I thought they would have the channel cleared in days to allow ships in and out but that is clearly not gonna happen. Its gonna take weeks if not months just to get the port open, and then they still have to remove all of the wreckage before they can think of building a new bridge which will take years to replace.
They likely will have to dredge the channel also.
It's not going to be days they're hoping to have a small channel opened up for smaller ships to help sooner than later though.
Were do apply for work
El Paso border gate. Call yourself Pedro.
Mr George
Man-made things fall down, some don't.
They should turn the old bridge into a museum. The amount of trains that were rode across that bridge is now just a part of history.
TELL ME WHAT TRAINS
@@flight6662The train Biden claimed he rode over the bridge.
Trains? 😮
That’s what our president said? He said he rode the train across that bridge.
Biden took it many times. ❤
I understand it's important to get the port back open, but there are still 4 missing workers that have been forgotten. Shouldn't that be the #1 priority?
They think they might be under the beams and wreckage, presumed dead.
The best guess right now is that the missing workers' bodies are under some of the wreckage.
No. The mess must get cleared up.
Why do they keep going on and on about farm equipment, and autos. (Imports). We longshoremen / merchant mariners (U.S. Flagged / U.S. Crewed) on the west coast export MASSIVE amounts of perishable, refrigerated farm and ranch produce. Japan buys 60% of our farm and ranch products which we ship on huge container-ships. The refrigerated cargo is about 10% of volume, yet about 60% of profit.
I assume it's because they're talking about the cargo mix of Baltimore and not that of whichever West Coast port you're referring to. Apparently, Baltimore is a major RORO port, so perhaps that's why.
How many executives in the various branches of government knew that bridge had no protection around the pylons or piers, and how many people in the ship-channel knew it was an catastrophe waiting to happen. I bet the number is over 100, and I bet 80 % of them were under-qualified for their jobs. So many people had to make colossal errors at work in order for this to happen.
Thats looks a tad bigger up close
Hesrd that before. 😅
No engineers out there.
I think this is a job for the salvage teams from the Netherlands. They have the biggest craneships and best knowhow in the world . Why isn‘t there a tunnel underneath that bay instead of that bridge?
You couldn't do it because how deep it would have to be so ships could get in and out of the port
Simple answer: Cost. At some time in the past somebody determined it would be much more feasible to build a bridge. Also, there is no significant Naval presence in Baltimore -- the US Navy doesn't like having major bases potentially cut-off from the open ocean by bridges and would have demanded a tunnel if they had a big base in Baltimore
There are two tunnels under the patapsco river, interstate 95 and interstate 895. The Key bridge wasn’t tunneled because of the span I’m guessing. There are also two bridges over the Chesapeake bay in Maryland and a bridge/tunnel in Virginia but those three are not in Baltimore like the Key bridge and I-95/I-895 tunnels.
As for Dutch salvage teams I’d be all for them being brought in if it means a faster and better cleanup
Welders on top
They must be desperate for workers a white hat is torching the steel and a guy with a bridge construction hard hat is behind him watching. Does the Union Hall know about this?
guy in the back gets paid to do 0?
what!
Safety watch... Quite necessary
Who you gonna call? Bridge Busters!
> "exothermic cutting torch"
This term seemed incredibly stupid to me - of course a cutting torch is exothermic. But apparently it is the normal term used for cutting torches which use a chemical reaction between a metal powder and pure oxygen to produce a stream of molten metal and slag that can cut through materials, often used for very thick materials or where electrically powered cutting tools are impractical.
Other cutting torches like plasma torches and oxy-fuel torches are of course exothermal too in the scientific sense. But I guess "exothermic cutting torch" is only used to refer to the metal powder type, by people working in the field.
Can you say money???
Looks like a job for the U.S. 🇺🇸 Navy Seabees. They are experts in marine environment construction techniques.
Can do is their motto. ⚓️
“ stand Navy out to sea “
The bots are taking over
Damn. Imagine the paycheck these guys are gonna get for having to work on Transvisibility Day. Holiday pay is usually double time and a half.
It's Easter day
@@mintontube11Well, Easter is pagan too. Oestre, Ashtoreth, Astarte...Goddesses of reproductivity or sex worship.
It's Resurrection Sunday Jesus died on the cross for our sins and on the third day he arose again.
@@mintontube11 Perhaps he could helpfully come back, walk on water, and on the third day arise the bridge again.
@@Graham_WidemanGod is not mocked. Your argument is not with me.