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- Our Services. Steve Howell welding gussets inside the WT10x60 tower legs.
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- Bellevue saddles milled from a single block of A588 weathering steel.
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- Bellevue suspender bars fabricated and ready to ship.
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- “Howell Hoops,” hand/kickrail loops integral to the 1/2″ suspender bar.
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- Built-up I-beam section, used as upper crossbeam for the Bellevue bridge towers.
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- Bridge towers were raised onto prepared abutments using a small rubber-tracked excavator.
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- Steve Howell and Marty Walz plumb one leg of the Bellevue towers
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- Marty Walz and Steve Howell wrestle 1-1/4″ mainline cables into their towertop saddles.
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- Austin Thompson, working from the bosun’s chair hung from a skyline, installs mainline cable clips.
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- Stringer circuit is completed across the 152′ span, with last piece of superstructure steel adorned with a fir bough.
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- Typical fixed/pinned stringer connection, featuring suspender bars with integral rails and 1/2″ gapped fiberglass decking pinned in place with angle.
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- The Bellevue bridge was completed on schedule and on budget, in time for opening on Mother’s Day 2012.
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- Bellevue Botanical Suspension Bridge, 2012.