up. after we had built pallets underneath the fossil, we were able to scooch some plywood underneath em so that we could move it with chains and come-alongs and get it into the trailers. it was and still is today the most exciting, the most wonderful excavation we have ever done, the most incredible thing we have ever done.
move it with chains and come-alongs and get it into the trailers. it was and still is today the most exciting, the most wonderful excavation we have ever done, the most incredible thing we have ever done.
underneath next them so that we could move it with chains and come-alongs and get it into the trailers. it was and still is today the most exciting, the most wonderful excavation we have ever done, the most incredible thing we have ever done.
last phase of getting sue out of the ground, we used basically egyptian techniques to get this large block. i mean, we had one of the blocks weighed probably something close to 10,000 pounds. there was probably about ten ton of material, total, that we had to load up. once we had the skull and pelvic block and the tail vertebrae and everything else, we knew we could haul a lot of the stuff on our bobcat trailer. we had no idea how we were going to be able to get all these other things. well, my brother john had built a tandem-axle trailer earlier that year. with that and the other pickup truck that we had there, we were able to load the fossil up. after we had built pallets underneath the fossil, we were able to scooch some plywood underneath em so that we could move it with chains and come-alongs and get it into the trailers.
with that and the other pickup truck that we had there, we were able to load the fossil up. after we had built pallets underneath the fossil, we were able to scooch some plywood underneath em so that we could move it with chains and come-alongs and get it into the trailers. it was and still is today the most exciting, the most wonderful excavation we have ever done, the most incredible thing we have ever done.