• Name: Weld_008
  • Caption: 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.