200-ton hydraulic salvage grab to help recover Key Bridge wreckage

A 200-ton hydraulic salvage grab is helping with the salvage operations of the Francis Scott Key Bridge wreckage.
The 200-ton hydraulic salvage grab completed a week-long barge journey from Galveston, TX, to arrive at Sparrows Point this weekend, and it will help recover some of the 50,000 tons of wreckage at the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse site.
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[@Langevloei-NL]

Get the SSCV Sleipnir to lift those pieces out of the way. The main cranes can be operated in tandem to jointly lift 20,000 t (22,000 short tons).

[@KYLOWW]

Thats a massive piece of engineering right here

[@Shipspotting_Vietnam]

Real monsters!!!❤❤❤

[@Slojamoz]

Engineering Avengers! It looks like a Constructicon! "Transformers! Robots in Disguise".. But seriously, Thanks to all helping after this tragedy!

[@janetphillips2875]

That would pick up a King Kong stuffed animal in a giant grab machine

[@seeharvester]

I want the Godzilla!

[@davidmiller6010]

Is it 200 ton capacity, or does it weigh 200 tons? And those pads at the tips, are they part of it, or just shipping blocks?

[@martylost167]

Capacity and shipping blocks. 1000 ton Salvage Grab kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYOqdpaBgNmrb9E

[@TXnine7nine]

It weighs 200 tons and those are indeed locks to keep it in place during transport.

[@guymann4016]

1,000 ton capacity

[@SpreadLove173]

Ur asking the right questions

[@merryhunt9153]

I want to see the giant grabber at work!

[@seeharvester]

The entire channel clear and the boat re-floated in 1 month? HA!

[@ronbelanger4113]

A month of Sundays.

[@kennethnesbit8775]

Keep pushing on. Bravo Zulu to everyone.

[@leonardcollings7389]

New meaning to ( Get a grip on things).

[@user-eo5oe8et1j]

I wish you people can make your mind up one news story says it's 30 ft now you're saying is 20 ft and ask for the poor people who got killed your first said they were only three now you're saying they're six make up your mind

[@janetphillips2875]

Its easy to sit in front of a computer and yap about progress.

[@river4462]

Sure cause talk is cheap like the idiots spewing like they are so on it....give me a break....yuh girly girl what are you in elementary school? Is this your science project? The people are useless. Talk is what these catastrophies are about

[@bruce8961]

Scrap metal is worth, maga dollars! That Machine is costing Thousands of dollars a day

[@pepperwatson7784]

That girl is way too young to be talking about economics why were you thinking hiring her a child to speak on such important things

[@river4462]

Yuh drama. All this talk about nothing. Who is folling who?

[@MidnightWarrior1976]

"It looks like it could be part of a giant claw machine" What a brilliant statement from a clueless woman narrator. Let's stick to real people.