Wanted to share with you fella's a few photo’s of the large granite boulder, considered to be a piece of art that is being moved to the Los Angeles City musuesm.

Rock in motion, this 340 ton rock leaving a rock quarry in Riverside and headed for a Los Angeles museum is going to take 11 days to travel 105 miles at 3 mph in a round-about route that normally would consist of approximately 55 miles.

Street lights and power lines and anything else needing to be taken down for its 23 foot height all along the route.

I took these pictures while it was parked at the South-West corner of the Ontario International Airport about 10 miles from here. I must have took some 70 or so pictures, probably the biggest truck I'll ever run across, and I've run across and driven some really big ones! Modular axels and beams were built around this 340 ton rock and supposed to consist of some 240 wheels and some 56 axels I think they said...

Large size of trailer is required due to the concentrated area of its load, 340 ton load weight within some 324 sq. ft. or 18’ x 18’, unlike with some other type of loads that actually become part of the rigidity of the trailer itself.

Once in place at the museum, it is supposed to appear suspended in mid air, and allow the public to walk underneath it...

Don't think anyone has ever stated what this project is costing but I can imagine, I was told that it is all being paid for through donations and grants from individuals and large corporations… without any taxpayer monies.

I was also told that the planning for the rock being transported, routes, and gaining permits to travel through the 22 various cities took over 2 years!

What some artist will come up with!


Phil



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Took this picture standing next to one of the pusher trucks, you can just barely make out one of the front puller trucks in front of the forklift and behind the street signs.

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Notice that the rock is being suspended only by the eight large turnbuckles, 4 on each side!

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Why didn't they just split it up then glue it back together?

In terms of art, a big rock is to my mind better than the aimless splash and dab waste of paint that is passed off as art these days with fawning idiots with too much disposable cash paying for junk.

All your images are dead/no good.

Moved them into a different album all their own, I'll get the file locations fixed again in a little bit.

Plan on up-loading a bunch more maybe today...

Transport of this rock and the vehicle used in its transport turned out to be a big hit everywhere it stopped and all along its long route... people turned out in the hundreds at every stop.

As it was routed all the way to the coast before turning back inland, it was parked over night right in downtown Long Beach, CA right in the middle of the street and the city threw a block party!

It's now at the museum surrounded by fencing and screening that doesn't allow the public, but should be in place and open to Museum visitors this summer.

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Files are all fixed and pictures are back up!



Phil

I can see how David slew Goliath now.