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Army Corps of Engineers Destroys $9.5 Million Gantry Crane
Posted on 5/5/19 at 8:16 pm
Posted on 5/5/19 at 8:16 pm
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Posted on 5/5/19 at 8:19 pm to Missouri Waltz
I love how the anchor discusses it in the present tense.
Posted on 5/5/19 at 8:24 pm to Missouri Waltz
OP is a bit deceptive, the Corps purposefully demolished the gantry crane.
Posted on 5/5/19 at 8:24 pm to Obtuse1
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I love how the anchor discusses it in the present tense.
Cut her some slack. The ignorant bastards at KFVS also misspelled "Olmsted." They probably all graduated from journalism school at Mizzou.
Posted on 5/5/19 at 8:26 pm to Missouri Waltz
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$9.5 Million Gantry Crane
Without clicking on the link, I imagine if the US government paid $9.5M, I could probably go down to Cranes R Us and get the same one for about $10k
Posted on 5/5/19 at 8:27 pm to Missouri Waltz
perfect detonation timing
Posted on 5/5/19 at 8:30 pm to East Coast Band
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I could probably go down to Cranes R Us and get the same one for about $10k
Nope, you're wrong. Cranes R Us closed down last year.
Posted on 5/5/19 at 8:48 pm to Missouri Waltz
What exactly is the point in destroying it?
Posted on 5/5/19 at 9:19 pm to Missouri Waltz
5100 pound capacity, now that's impressive.
Posted on 5/5/19 at 9:23 pm to fr33manator
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What exactly is the point in destroying it?
Olmsted Locks and Dam has been completed so the Corps of Engineers does not need the crane anymore. Olmsted will replace Locks and Dams 52 and 53 on the Ohio River. L&D 52 was the busiest in the United States. Oh, and the COE completed the Olmsted project only 30 years late and $2.25 BILLION over budget.
This post was edited on 5/5/19 at 9:25 pm
Posted on 5/5/19 at 10:15 pm to Pitt Road
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5100 pound capacity, now that's impressive.
I know, right?
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This is a massive sized crane specifically built to assemble, move, lift sections of the dam. The largest of which weighed 4,700 tons.
Oh, it's cool. The journalist and editors are just idiots.
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