Meriwether Bridges Big Hole River, MT Click on any image to go back to the Meriwether Specification Page Construction Images, 2004
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O'Keefe Drilling setting up for start of drilled shaft foundations.
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George Tempest guiding rebar cage into shaft.
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A look into the shaft, ready for concrete. |
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George Tempest guiding concrete pump hose into abutment form.
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Preparing to move form to abutment location.
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Bernie Parrow guiding casing into shaft.
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Frank Parrow running drill rig.
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Tying rebar in abutment form.
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Clark's Crossing Bridge, east abutment form.
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Keith Monohan; a look inside Meriwether Bridge, west abutment form.
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Assembling east abutment, with form liner.
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Setting Meriwether Bridge east abutment form.
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L.S. Ready Mix (Dillon, MT) and Lonesome Dove Pumping (Bozeman, MT) ready to go.
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Tower fabrication at Sahale shop in Seattle. |
Meriwether Bridge parts arrive on Sahale boom truck from Seattle.
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Carroll's daughter Skye, at the wheel of the boom truck.
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Erecting Meriwether Bridge east tower.
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Carroll Vogel at tower top.
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Skye with Daddy. |
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Trestle remants at Coolidge, a ghost town near Meriwether Ranch.
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Ruins of mill at Coolidge.
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Erecting Clark's Crossing west tower. |
Marco Ernandes setting tower leg.
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Keith Monohan and Carroll Vogel at tower top, Meriwether Bridge west abutment.
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Meriwether Bridge Towers.
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Clarks Crossing east tower.
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Meriwether Bridge Towers from downriver.
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Cable stays laid out for socketing.
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Broomed stay cables with Meriwether Towers in background.
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Carroll Vogel ready for acid dipping bridge strand to remove galvanizing.
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Marco Ernandes acid dipping bridge strand.
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Marco Ernandes sealing socket with putty.
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Marco Ernandes connecting stays at tower top.
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Connecting stays, Meriwether east tower.
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Marco Ernandes connecting stays.
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Jay Borseth preparing to launch stringer section on skyline.
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Carroll Vogel mugging for the camera too, but without the snazzy orange hard hat.
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Carroll Vogel and Filson.
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Jay Borseth in the basket.
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Carroll Vogel connecting stays to stringer mid-section.
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Carroll Vogel with first girder in place.
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Second Meriwether Bridge stringer section has been added.
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The view from mid-span looking east.
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Senior Engineer Al "Mike" Highberger contemplates the action.
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Father and Son, Engineer and Master Builder, Mike and Carroll.
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Senior Engineer Al "Mike" Highberger assembling stringer section.
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Preparing to launch downriver stringer mid-section, Meriwether Bridge.
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Preparing to launch downriver stringer mid-section, Meriwether Bridge.
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Meriwether Bridge under construction.
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Downriver stringer under during construction.
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Zak Steigmeyer adjusting skyline tension.
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Walking the downriver stringer during winter.
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Upriver view of Big Hole channel from Meriwether Bridge.
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Meriwether Bridge at 16 below zero.
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Full moon rising over Meriwether Bridge.
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Hoar frost on safety ropes on a sub-zero morning.
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Working from above and below to make up a splice joint at Clarks Crossing.
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Setting floor beams and stringers on Meriwether Bridge.
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Placing diagonal bracing.
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Like building a railroad, the boom truck backs over completed deck to set floor beams, three at a time.
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By golly, the bridge works; 30,000 pound truck and all.
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Meriwether Bridge from the east, closing the gap at the west abutment.
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Meriwether Bridge from up river.
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Meriwether Bridge from the east.
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Meriwether Bridge from the west, looking down river.
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Big Hole River and Meriwether Bridge.
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Meriwether Bridge, looking west.
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