Moving Heavy Things on a Hot Day

July 21, 2017 I asked Dereck Sheroan from JBB Inc. of Hardinsburg, KY to bring their 23 ton crane out to move some heavy stones and sculptures.

 We started the morning with my sculpture "Ecliptic".
Meg caught 67 seconds of this on video and I posted it on Youtube
https://youtu.be/Q0rc963Yhws

 It was loaded up onto the back of the crane truck and moved out into the sculpture garden.

 We set it on top of a cubic meter block of Spanish Dendritic Marble.  It was a PERFECT fit.  The cube complements the large sphere in the composition.  I'm real happy with this combination.
Here's 46 seconds of this...
https://youtu.be/THgeOvnKWrU

 Next, we moved the 8' tall "Harmony" sculpture out into the sculpture garden.

 The main purpose for calling the crane out was to move a 4,000 lb. piece in order to finish my functional sculpture "Daydreamer".  I had made (what will be) the bottom flat so that it could be set upright while I had the crane.  Like a chess game, you have to think a couple moves ahead.
...and here's 29 seconds of this part...
https://youtu.be/IN1_hevDpbQ

 I had also drilled and split a 7,000 lb. piece from another 10,000 lb. block of Indiana Limestone.  This will be another functional Sculpture entitled "Magic Carpet Bench".  I moved it to an area that remains shaded by the building until about 1 p.m.

The last thing to do before lunch was to get an accurate weight for a functional sculpture entitled "Get Moving".  This is the back view.  When this picture was taken the heat index was 102 degrees.
Here's 80 seconds of this - (you can tell that I've had just about enough...)
https://youtu.be/ewIzeCeJRIg
After lunch, when we unloaded the 2 pieces of Meg's on the back of the truck, the heat index was 116 degrees - we called it a day at that point.  I saw a heat index of 121 degrees on the weather channel a couple hours later - but, by that time, I was sitting in front of an air conditioner.