Hercules carrying the Gateshead Millenium Bridge

This video was made on November 20 2000. It shows one of the most incredible days ever witnessed on the River Tyne. The floating crane, The Asian Hercules II carried the bridge from the AMEC yard at Howdon up the River Tyne to its permanent home at Gateshead Quays near the Tyne Bridge.

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[craigie4067]

awesome video

[AndyWenoka]

incredible? asian hecules is more impressive than millenium bridge!

[dougy12]

Yes, awesome

Jane

[thoomoo]

Beautiful bridge-me and my wife walked across it the first day it was opened-looks better in the flesh

[b0lliks]

i keep popping back to this vid to see if anyone has came up with the name of the alto sax music at the start, been bugging me since i first seen this on tv.

[beaglebob]

Ten year on and i wonder if the bairn actually trained as a builder......

[HisInfernalMajesty70]

its canny amazing like, 1 day theres nowt there next day theres a big fuck off new bridge sitting there haha.

[beaglebob]

I remember taking our kid n his mate down to see it on the night.One bloke said oh is'nt it a beautiful bridge,i say's i dint nah cos i'm deekin the crane...

Also remember years back i done a lot of welding n erecting at international paints(akzo nobel),they wanted to lift the roof off the plant roof and put another floor in,they were going to use the baby hercules......

Still gutted the job fell through.

[shenmue78]

Fantastic. 

[MrObvious15]

amazing, i cant believe i was there :P long ago now

[Richad09]

@brooklynlulu Yeah they did great piece's music :)