movements— an important consideration when crews are suspended in man baskets while handling a delicate, netlike load.
“ This is always done on a Sunday afternoon,” said Hanners.“ This is a busy corridor in downtown Columbus. Sunday is the least-intrusive time to have Gay and High Streets closed for several hours.”
Hanners notes that, after several years of doing this, the team can complete the operation in three or four hours.
After Currents is folded and placed in its special protective container, it goes into storage for the winter.
Then, in a few months will come a sure sign of spring in Columbus. Each March or April, ALL and Atlas return to the intersection of Gay and High Streets to re-install the brightly colored fiber sculpture, as the gray skies of winter give way to blue. area and having to re-stage a crane mid-operation.
Crew members from Atlas, carried in man baskets, rig each crane to the appropriate connection point on the art piece. Cranes gently lower the first end downward so crews on the ground can remove the sculpture from the rigging and begin the folding process. Then the cranes drive to the other end and repeat the process.
Both cranes also benefit from modern load-moment / control systems designed to support smooth, deliberate
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