There are many ways to take down a bridge. This isn’t one of them.
According to the old adage, a picture paints a thousand words. Judging by the photo (left), I would imagine that high on that list of 1,000 words was “what the Hell were you thinking”.
The company involved clearly has access to a crawler crane; so surely a wrecking ball might have been more appropriate. Or, better still, a demolition method invented in the past 50 years?
But oh no. Let’s get a backhoe loader, an operator with no fear of heights and – ideally – a death wish, and suspend the pair of them high above the ground.
What could possibly go wrong…?
