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- Marty and Austin assess the site in preparation for installation.
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- Austin operating the thinking-man’s end of the surveying operation.
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- Austin lifts first tower leg into place using a Cat Telehandler.
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- First tower leg set.
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- Steve and Marty prepping to receive tower horizontals.
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- Tower is raised and the top horizontal is in; Ken and Marty are ready to go to Gils now.
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- Austin hauling one of the long mainline cables to its anchor.
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- Tower completed and mainlines attached; Marty setting suspender cables.
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- Skylines going up.
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- Shaped suspender bars hung from the mainlines.
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- Steve setting mainlines at the tower top.
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- Marty making the first descent along the mainlines; temporary wood frame supports for electrical conduit visible in the foreground.
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- Chainfalls, safety lines, and climbing ropes cascade from the bridge tower.
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- Austin riding the conduit, newly hung from the skylines.
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- Bridge floorbeams waiting to be cast.
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- Nephila clavipes, a true expert in web and cable work, assessing our performance.
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- Typical mid-project blossoming of cables, straps, utilities, and steel.
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- Stringers being cast and installed.
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- Ken adjusting skylines at the subtowers.
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- The superstructure begins to emerge; stringers and floorbeams in place.
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- Ken preparing to transfer conduit to the floorbeams.
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- Detail of fixed/pinned stringer connection.
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- Tower-top detail; HSI spelter sockets fixed to the tower top.
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- Adam fussily lining up marks on the A307 carriage bolt heads. He can do a two hour job in less than six.
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- Detail of subtower and approach.
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- Subtower with radiused saddle.
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- Detail of LED handrail lights.
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- The bridge by night; lit with LED handrail lights along its length.
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- The Cedar Point Suspension Bridge.
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- The Cedar Point Suspension Bridge, Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
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- Approach to the bridge via the Marine Education Center.
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- Cedar Point Suspension Bridge, illuminated.
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- April 17 2018, ribbon-cutting.