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A Lifting Masterpiece for Lifting Gear Hire
Lifting Gear Hire provided a bespoke lifting solution to the Storey Gallery in Lancaster. The Storey Gallery commissioned Richard Wilson, the internationally renowned sculptor and installation artist, to create a major piece of dynamic artwork entitled ‘Queen and Gantry’, featuring a door-frame complete with pediment, architrave and entablature, which could be traversed up and down the gallery.
Lifting Gear Hire had to overcome two seemingly tricky problems, firstly they had to suspend the door-frame on an angle, then enable its travel along a 15 metre long gallery. At the same time, the doorframe needed to climb and descend a significant incline as it traversed through the gallery to fulfil the creative intent conceived by the artist.
Lifting Gear Hire employed its unique specialist lifting engineering skills to overcome the intricate challenges of an especially “sensitive” environment where there is a heightened risk of potential injury to the visiting public.
The company’s bespoke design and engineering division, Lifting Gear Engineering developed a safe, cost effective solution using four mobile gantries that were fitted to cover the length of the room and connected by a runway system. The gantries inclined from a height of 3.6 metres at one end of the room to 5 metres at the other end.
They counteracted the problem of making the door-frame travel along the runway system by suspending it on a push travel girder trolley. A wire rope winch was fixed at the highest point of the runway system and a diverter pulley at the other end. This enabled the door-frame to be winched across the room successfully, before travelling back in the opposite direction.
“Lifting Gear Hire provided a safe and efficient lifting solution that enabled the gallery to exhibit their latest installation piece, commissioned to reflect their extensive plans for refurbishment,” said the company’s Allan Cooke.
In picture: Lifting Gear Hire supplied a mobile gantry and winch system to enable the Storey Gallery to display their latest exhibition commission safely and efficiently. Image courtesy Jerry Hardman-Jones.
4th April 2006
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