I went on on another bike ride the other day on Tulsa’s RiverParks trails along the Arkansas River. I took my Canon Superzoom Camera with me. I stopped again at The Gathering Place to check on the new pedestrian bridge and new dam being constructed. Not much progress so I focused on the construction equipment being used.
In the bed of the river they had this huge concrete pump putting concrete around boulders on the riverbed. So it looks like in addition to the bridge and dam maybe they are shaping the river for other purposes. I’ll have to check into that.
There were lots of tracked backhoes at work (I call them track hoes.) This one was actually on the west side of the river doing something not related to the bridge or dam.
Here are several more on the riverbed. The contractors have constructed a huge cofferdam to divert the river flow to the west side of its banks to make room for construction.
And another trackhoe
And yet another. Not too many of them were being operated the day of my ride. I have no idea why. The weather was great.
And this one had a jackhammer type attachment.
As you can tell, I love construction equipment and checking out construction and trying to figure out what they are doing and how they are going about it.
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…the person that invented the concrete pumper was a genius!
construction giants at work are interesting
Construction stuff is fascinating. The concrete pump is amazing!
New dams and bridges seems good for the economy and creates jobs. This type of construction will pay off in the future and watching the process, with all top-line machinery, is pretty cool. The green one in the first picture looks like a giant grasshopper.
Good one.
They do look very busy, do you think maybe they are extending or widening the river?
Cool equipment.
Buenos equipos te mando un beso.
Look like a big construction project.
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That green thing looks prehistoric… Or maybe like something out of Star Wars.
It is interesting to see how each of these giant equipment works. One day in the future, all these would be fully programmed robots, no need for a human to drive them and handle them.
That is one big project. My son works in a machine shop that builds parts for some of this type machinery and he loves to look at what he may have had a part in building.
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Would really be nice to see when the projects are completed.
A bank was torn down and something new is being built on the property. Who knows what? I was going to the Post Office to mail bills, when I noticed concrete was being lifted from cement truck on street and being poured in a certain spot. It was done different than your photo but accomplished same thing. BIG construction machinery is interesting.
Big boy toys!