Excavator bucket installation
The National Museum has started moving the large technology objects into the Landmarks gallery. One particular challenge involved moving a rock shovel bucket into the gallery. Donated by Rio Tinto, the bucket was part of an excavator used to mine iron ore at Mount Tom Price in Western Australia. Here's how the Museum moved the 15-tonne object into the gallery space.
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Photo: Jason McCarthy.
Little bumps can cause big problems for an object this heavy. Sheets of plate steel were placed over anything that might catch the cradle's wheels.
Photo: Jason McCarthy.
The bucket is moved slowly into its position in the Landmarks gallery.
Photo: Jason McCarthy.
National Museum Conservator, Ainslie Greiner, jacked up the bucket so the wheels could be realigned and the bucket pushed back against the gallery wall.
