Photos of Heavy Excavators at Work ....Part Two

Working excavators from the Sea to Sky highway job...to Gambier Island directly across Howe Sound.
The images have been reduced in size and quality for easier uploading.

Traxxon built hoe-drill at Segment Two or Three

Cut 9...loading out of the Wall 76 area...and working above on the new road

Very top of Cut 9...that angle that the right hand hoe is on...is for real...

Returning from a photo shoot with a couple of lucky engineers that got to come along for the ride

Cut 4 at Segment One

Loading out of Cut 7 at Segment One

Random shot of a "field logger"  taken this spring ...fairly close to Keremeos

Placing blast mats beside the highway at Cut 10

Loading out of the north side of Cut 4

Early days of Cut 5

Rock bolting at Cut 10 on a winter day

Loading out of Cut 7...looking towards Cut 8

Cut 9 was a very, very big site...hairy as all get out

Digging out the soft spot that just wouldn't quit going down

Loading out of Doodson's Corner

Doodson's Corner

Segment Two hoe drill working at Segment One in the early days of Cut 4

Mucking out under the Upper Levels Highway

Hoe-drill to try and drill through all the rebar to install DCP anchors....chewed up a ton of bits and wore out the nerves of all the drillers....couldn't have put sleeves...oh no...couldn't do that

Cut 4, segment One

Either dredging or filling....just below the highway at Furry Creek

385 comes to the rescue of a Ranger 800 drill after the trail gave way under it

The 385 supported the under side...the hoe on top pulled with a cable to make sure that the drill didn't topple over

Cut 10...below the highway and above the rail tracks

Gear line-up at Cut 8

Early days of Cut 9

Cut 9

Larsen Creek, Segment One

225 working on the details of a breakwater construction at Brigade bay on Gambier Island...right across Howe Sound from the Squamish highway

Dump truck delivering more rock from the quarry down to the breakwater...Anvil Island in the background

250 Kobelco with an IR hydraulic drill attachment

Barge mounted 100 ton clamshell machine to place the really huge armour rocks on the outside of the breakwater. Drill is working on the removal of the 8000 cubic meter reef...that story and video is here..http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/11/how-i-blew-up-ocean-reef-and-never-went.html

400 sized Komatsu digging out one of the reef blasts

Trading places....excavator on the reef....drill comes off