Levitated Mass - not so mini transporter
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Levitated Mass - not so mini transporter
Let's talk BIG transportation!
Yahoo: 340-ton rock begins 105-mile trip to LA museum
Pictures: A worker walks alongside a 340-ton megalith rock, which is to be part of artist Michael Heizer's artwork "Levitated Mass", on a transport vehicle as it begins its 11-night, 105-mile (169-km) journey to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) from Jurupa Valley, California
LA Weekly: LACMA Rock, Michael Heizer's 340-Ton Sculpture, Begins its Journey to L.A.
... The "equipment" consists of a 260-foot long bright red transporter with 196 wheels and 44 axles. It's somewhere between 27 and 32 feet wide, depending on who you ask, and it's pulled by one truck and pushed by another. Four crews, two near the front and two near the back, walk alongside it to make often-needed adjustments -- ...
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Rock included, the whole machinery weighs about 1.2 million pounds. ...
So, when you read someone who complains their MINI rides like a rock, refer to this.
Or a rock hit their windshield. 
Yahoo: 340-ton rock begins 105-mile trip to LA museum
Pictures: A worker walks alongside a 340-ton megalith rock, which is to be part of artist Michael Heizer's artwork "Levitated Mass", on a transport vehicle as it begins its 11-night, 105-mile (169-km) journey to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) from Jurupa Valley, California
LA Weekly: LACMA Rock, Michael Heizer's 340-Ton Sculpture, Begins its Journey to L.A.
... The "equipment" consists of a 260-foot long bright red transporter with 196 wheels and 44 axles. It's somewhere between 27 and 32 feet wide, depending on who you ask, and it's pulled by one truck and pushed by another. Four crews, two near the front and two near the back, walk alongside it to make often-needed adjustments -- ...
...
Rock included, the whole machinery weighs about 1.2 million pounds. ...
So, when you read someone who complains their MINI rides like a rock, refer to this.
Or a rock hit their windshield.
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