Sea to Sky Overture .... Blasting Video

Blasting on the Sea to Sky Highway project, Segment one in West Vancouver. Deyna Gillis used his computer tech skills to help me recover videos from old mini-discs. This little clip features blasts from Cut 4, Cut 5, 10 and 14.

The blast with the 769 haul truck so close...was because the truck had a major drive-line breakdown and was going to be in the way for a while. The blasts in Cut 4 didn't really toss big rocks too badly...so we had the mechanics raise the steel dump box to protect the cab. No damage done.

The blast with the excavator holding the mats down...is a technique used when the conditions are right to keep the blast mats from sliding away....sometimes far far away. Like I said...when the conditions are right. This is above Cut 10...right beside the old Squamish highway....60 meters down to the railroad tracks on the bottom side. Fiber-optic lines right above ( expensive to tear up )

The fairly large shot that is flinging blast mats around is at Cut 4...fairly close to the Upper Levels highway. The road is closed for the shot....but mats are used on the side facing the highway to minimize fly-rock that might go over that way. This allowed us to do a bigger shot and have less clean up on the pavement.

Deyna amped up the sound a bit for added drama...it's all just for fun. More blasting videos will be available in a while
Other blasting video
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/12/sea-to-sky-blasting-video.html

And, blowing up an ocean reef...and not going to jail
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/11/how-i-blew-up-ocean-reef-and-never-went.html