Dwight: not unless they stole the pic from me! I made the tool to cut out the damaged section of the beam and filler plate out of bits and pieces of buggo and Harris torch parts. It was on one of my bridge repair jobs for ODOT. We run into tears in beams pretty often caused by vehicle impacts.

Here's the fit up


Here's another bridge on the same contract that we straightened
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