Eliasville...Ghost Town Bridge

It's been a while since our loyal viewers have had a construction update, and, unfortunately, even longer since we've posted a picture of a crane. Well, today is your lucky day as I take you to the bridge in Eliasville (close to Graham), Texas.


This scene unfolded back in Sept. when the job started. Most jobs start with clearing the project area so it's suitable for construction to begin. Our job is to construct small sections of road and a bridge next to the existing bridge and then tie the existing road to our new bridge.


Just about every road involves moving dirt, and here we are loading dirt into an off-road dump truck so we can build up the grade of the new road. Driving these trucks is always an adventure, and as there is little to no suspension, you're in for a bumpy ride if the haul road isn't maintained... I've considered selling tickets for rides on the weekends!


Here we are pouring the columns for the bridge. I call this one "Billy IN the Can." Other than appearing to have fallen in, he's actually smoothing the concrete where the top of the column is going to be.


Right before Christmas, we set beams on the caps. This is always a big production because of the incredible weight of the beams and the very real possiblity of dropping one if something goes wrong. The next picture is a great shot of both cranes taking a beam off of the truck and preparing to set it. The tall crane has 130 ft. of boom on it!