Sea to Sky Highway Blasting Videos From 2006-2008

">Here are a few blasting videos that I recovered from an old disc. There are more images that just need to be recover and processed...it'll just take time. The link is at the bottom...

 The first video is at the Cut 10 area, beside the highway. We put the excavator bucket over the shot to keep the blast mats from flying into the air...and into the fiber-optic line...or over the bluff and down 100 feet.

The other shots are a Eagleridge (Cut 4 )...one of the small ones is a bit of a dud...where the shock-tube got broken when the blast mats were put on. It's called a "cut-off".....not dangerous...just a piss-off ( it takes a ton of time to re-attach everything...and put the mats back on.

The larger Cut 4 shots...are only matted on the Upper Levels Highway side...to control the amount of fly-rock coming over that way. The highway was closed by our traffic control people also, as an extra precaution. Some of the larger shots ( which I hope to post soon ) actually used no mats...or very few. Some of the larger/deeper shots behave better than the smaller ones.The last quick, little clip is of an 11,000 cubic meter blast on the north side of Cut 4....the seismic jolt was strong enough to bounce the 50 ton machine that we were hiding behind.
">Click the link below for video