Turning a 4 TONNE Sculpture

This is a time-lapse showing the process of turning "Parkland" - a reception sculpture conceived from a huge, twisting, fallen oak within the historic landscape of Petworth Park in West Sussex.
Designed for a commercial building in Century City, LA. This substantial commission came through LA/Swiss based architects - Montalba Architects and will be carefully crated, shipped and installed by Mtec Fine Art Handling later in the summer.
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[@brianpeers]

So cool!
The music brings back pleasant memories from my at the time 20 year old life.
The wood magic will continue at your end.

[@alison_crowther]

Thanks Brian glad you enjoyed the music 🙏🏼

[@kamilahousovamizerova9202]

Congratulation! Perfect work, the desk of course, but the action is like a balet. Thank you for sharing!

[@joemonteleone6330]

Hello Alison. Thank you very much for sharing this amazing RUclips about your wooden sculpture. I am your friend Adrian Spurr's student Joe Monteleone ( deafblind ). He talks a lot about you.

[@user-wg7dx7er8w]

Good morning 🌅, Alison, excellent work, but I think if you make yourself a pair of A-frame hoist, which have electric winches on them, Using webbing straps pulling on one side it should lift and rotate a lot easier than what you’ve struggled with, I’ve seen a lot of things on RUclips where young people who do Logging use a similar method, over in Canada and USA , if you rap the straps around the item that you want to rotate, then when you’ve got it set up, you pull the ends that you have rap and it will unwind and rotate the item,
Keep up the amazing work, Retire English dude living in France,

[@alison_crowther]

Yep done all that. It was fun to manage with minimal stuff. Mtec Art Transport @Mtec0
will be crating shipping and installing and they have ALL the gear 👌

[@user-wg7dx7er8w]

@@alison_crowther Good luck for the future,

[@louispoulain]

This sculpture is really beautiful. Thanks for sharing this process with us !

[@kevinnathanson6876]

Two words: Gantry Crane. (OK, and chain fall hoist, nylon lifting straps, etc....) Big work requires big tools.

[@alison_crowther]

And big investments that I ain’t got 😊we are low tech and use what equipment we have if possible and hire in larger plant when absolutely necessary

[@alison_crowther]

Oh and we use Mtec Art Transport @mtec0 ( who can handle anything!) when the budget allows

[@MrPhotodoc]

Fork lift turns a log.

[@kevinwillis6707]

pretty much, with the addition of some godawful music

[@pierregilet7912]

ready to build pyramids😂Congratulations to the whole team