Exothermic Salvage Cutting and
Hydraulic Salvage Cutting consists of 3 basic types:
- Light cutting of cable, chain, rope, wire using normal hacksaws,
bolt cutters, etc.
- Cutting of wood, pilings, bulkheads, and timbers using a Stanley
CS-11 hydraulic chainsaw with 18 hp hydraulic power-pack
- Cutting of steel, brass, stainless, concrete using a Broco BR-22
Exothermic cutting torch. Two oxygen cylinders and 200 rods are
kept on hand at all times for emergencies.
Wood pilings, logs, timbers, bulkheads, etc. are most economically
cut using a hydraulic chainsaw. I use a Stanley CS-11 underwater saw
powered by an 18 hp hydraulic power pack.
All other materials including brass, stainless steel, and concrete,
are cut with a Broco BR-22 Exothermic torch. This process uses a
special consumable rod and Oxygen at 100 psi plus to produce 10,000
degrees of heat at rod end to cut almost anything. Two oxygen cylinders
and 200 rods are on hand at all times for emergency jobs.
Some past jobs with the Broco include cutting RR track in Pamlico
River for new dock hazard reduction; cutting 18” H beams at
mudline at the new Green Street Bridge in Greenville, NC; removing
damaged propeller shafting in Pungo River; and cutting off rusted ¾” bolts
to release a 48” farmland drainage pump in the Alligator River.
Please scroll
down the web page to view photos of some of our
work...
48" agricultural dewatering pump.
Bolts cutoff above and below water to release the pump.
- Columbia, NC
48" agricultural dewatering pump.
Bolts cutoff below water to release the pump.
- Engelhard, NC, eight
miles off the highway
Emergency salvage cut on rotor to allow
the continued operation until dry-dock possible.
- PCS tugboat at PCS
Harbor
