This is the manufacturing of suspension bridge saddles to be used in the massive construction project to retrofit and replace the entire eight-mile San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. This saddle work took place at the Japan Steel Works in Muroran, Japan. Seen here is Welder Akira Takenami doing repair welds on West Division Saddle W2E2 in the foundry shop of JSW, October 10, 2008. Photo by Torin Boyd.
This is the manufacturing of suspension bridge saddles to be used in the massive construction project to retrofit and replace the entire eight-mile San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. This saddle work took place at the Japan Steel Works in Muroran, Japan. Seen here is Welder Akira Takenami doing repair welds on West Division Saddle W2E2 in the foundry shop of JSW, October 10, 2008. Photo by Torin Boyd.
This is the manufacturing of suspension bridge saddles to be used in the massive construction project to retrofit and replace the entire eight-mile San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. This saddle work took place at the Japan Steel Works in Muroran, Japan. Seen here is Welder Akira Takenami doing repair welds on West Division Saddle W2E2 in the foundry shop of JSW, October 10, 2008. Photo by Torin Boyd.
This is the manufacturing of suspension bridge saddles to be used in the massive construction project to retrofit and replace the entire eight-mile San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. This saddle work took place at the Japan Steel Works in Muroran, Japan. Seen here is Welder Akira Takenami doing repair welds on West Division Saddle W2E2 in the foundry shop of JSW, October 10, 2008. Photo by Torin Boyd.
This is the manufacturing of suspension bridge saddles to be used in the massive construction project to retrofit and replace the entire eight-mile San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. This saddle work took place at the Japan Steel Works in Muroran, Japan. Seen here is Welder Akira Takenami doing repair welds on West Division Saddle W2E2 in the foundry shop of JSW, October 10, 2008. Photo by Torin Boyd.
This is the manufacturing of suspension bridge saddles to be used in the massive construction project to retrofit and replace the entire eight-mile San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. This saddle work took place at the Japan Steel Works in Muroran, Japan. Seen here is Welder Akira Takenami doing repair welds on West Division Saddle W2E2 in the foundry shop of JSW, October 10, 2008. Photo by Torin Boyd.
This is the manufacturing of suspension bridge saddles to be used in the massive construction project to retrofit and replace the entire eight-mile San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. This saddle work took place at the Japan Steel Works in Muroran, Japan. Seen here is the casting phase in which the 150 ton “West Jacking Saddle” was hoisted out of casting sand and moved by crane to the opposite end of the foundry so the remaining sand could be removed. Photo by Torin Boyd, October 11, 2008.
This is the manufacturing of suspension bridge saddles to be used in the massive construction project to retrofit and replace the entire eight-mile San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. This saddle work took place at the Japan Steel Works in Muroran, Japan. Seen here is the casting phase in which the 150 ton “West Jacking Saddle” was hoisted out of casting sand and moved by crane to the opposite end of the foundry so the remaining sand could be removed. Photo by Torin Boyd, October 11, 2008.
This is the manufacturing of suspension bridge saddles to be used in the massive construction project to retrofit and replace the entire eight-mile San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. This saddle work took place at the Japan Steel Works in Muroran, Japan. Seen here is the casting phase in which the 150 ton “West Jacking Saddle” was hoisted out of casting sand and moved by crane to the opposite end of the foundry so the remaining sand could be removed. Photo by Torin Boyd, October 11, 2008.
This is the manufacturing of suspension bridge saddles to be used in the massive construction project to retrofit and replace the entire eight-mile San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. This saddle work took place at the Japan Steel Works in Muroran, Japan. Seen here is the casting phase in which the 150 ton “West Jacking Saddle” was hoisted out of casting sand and moved by crane to the opposite end of the foundry so the remaining sand could be removed. Photo by Torin Boyd, October 11, 2008.
This is the fabrication of suspension bridge saddles to be used in the massive construction project to replace the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. This took place at Japan Steel Works in Muroran, Japan. In this view, the “West Jacking Saddle” is being hoisted from the location where it was cast, moved by crane to the opposite end of the foundry shop, and torch-cut and hammered to remove the sand casting mold. Photo by Torin Boyd, October 11, 2008.
This is the manufacturing of suspension bridge saddles to be used in the massive construction project to retrofit and replace the entire eight-mile San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. This saddle work took place at the Japan Steel Works in Muroran, Japan. Seen here is the casting phase in which the 150 ton “West Jacking Saddle” was hoisted out of casting sand and moved by crane to the opposite end of the foundry so the remaining sand could be removed. Photo by Torin Boyd, October 11, 2008.
