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“Our permitting department did an
incredible job,” he says. “Most people don’t
realize with a move like this the amount
of coordination that has to go on. There’s
so much communication required and
many deadlines and issues to confront.
For instance, in Pennsylvania we originally
wanted to travel across I-70 but they
wouldn’t allow that, so that’s why we had
to go out on Highway 64 into Kentucky
and Illinois. Our permitting manager
Theresa Chilensky did a great job.”
Some of the loads were rigged using tri-
axle lowboys due to the need to get the
heights down to 15-feet, 4-inches. Nine
of the loads required the use of lowboy
trailers, and on the remaining three, step
decks were used.
Many of the sculpture pieces were shaped
like gigantic curved arches, Pursley says.
“They were all odd shapes, which made
rigging and loading them out even more
challenging,” he says. “Due to the shapes,
one end might be higher than the other
end. You had to place the truck and block
it just right. Some pieces were shaped like
half-moons with one end being longer and
heavier. Because this was a very expensive
sculpture, in the millions of dollars, we
had to be very careful with the rigging.
They showed us the pick points. Some
areas we had to protect the sculpture from
the chains so we used protectors.”
Low bridges and sharp turns were a
concern because the sculpture pieces were
so delicate and expensive. “There could be
no bumping,” says Pursley.
Once on the island the giant pieces of
structural steel were then assembled and
put together into the piece of artwork
designed by the artist.
The project involved 13 trucks and
drivers and in excess of 20 escorts. All
the equipment used was owned by J.F.
Lomma, Inc. Rigging, loading and
erection of the sculpture was performed
by Budco Enterprises of Long Island, NY.
Offloading onto the barges was done by
Heko Services of Seattle, WA.
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All lined up and ready to
go, Lomma’s 12 trucks
are loaded down with the
expensive sculpture pieces.
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