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Thursday, July 06, 2006
Case Delivers New Excavator to Work on Sculpture
For the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, Memorial Day Weekend and the onset of June marked both the beginning of the summer tourist season and the continuation of the non-profit Foundation’s efforts to create the largest statue on the planet. Included in the celebration was the display of a new Case CX240 Excavator, which will be used, along with precision blasting and other earthmoving equipment, to reveal the sculpture of the legendary Oglala Sioux chief.
Begun nearly 60 years ago, the project involves carving a 641x563-foot statue-in-the-round out of a solid granite mountain located in the Black Hills area of South Dakota, 17 miles southwest of Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
Visitors, Donors Help Support Construction
Construction of the Crazy Horse statue is a privately-funded project. As part of the fundraising, the Foundation hosts events throughout the summer months, beginning with its annual Memorial Day weekend open house.
This year’s Memorial Day event included the return of Native American and other guest artists and crafts people, who displayed their work in the Indian Museum of North America and the Native American Educational & Cultural Center, located at the Crazy Horse site.
The highlight of the weekend was an explosive blast on the enormous mountain carving, on Monday morning, that sent a cloud of dust and rocks into the air. Precision blasting with detonating cord is necessary to safely shape and remove rock to within 20 feet of the final statue.
Case Excavator Arrives for Open House
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Work on Current Phase of Sculpture
A Case CX240 Excavator, which arrived in time for public display over the Memorial Day weekend, drew the attention of visitors as they passed through the entrance to the Crazy Horse site. Case Construction Equipment and its financing arm, CNH Capital, donated a significant portion of the cost of the Case CX240 Excavator, which joins a Case 9010B Excavator, a Case donation to the Foundation in 2001.
The new Case Excavator will allow the Foundation to work faster and more efficiently on the larger sections being blasted out of the mountain during the current phase of the work, which involves carving the 219-foot-high horse’s head out of the mountain one section at a time, working downward.
After each blast, one of the two Case excavators, along with two crawler dozers in the Foundation’s fleet, clears away the blast area by removing loose rock and depositing it over the side of the mountain for later removal from the site.
“The CX240 is a larger machine that can move more material and reach farther than our Case 9010B. It’s a very powerful tool,” said Kevin Hachmeister, who heads engineering for the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation. “We’re grateful to Case and CNH Capital for helping to make this machine available to us.”
Begun nearly 60 years ago, the project involves carving a 641x563-foot statue-in-the-round out of a solid granite mountain located in the Black Hills area of South Dakota, 17 miles southwest of Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
Visitors, Donors Help Support Construction
Construction of the Crazy Horse statue is a privately-funded project. As part of the fundraising, the Foundation hosts events throughout the summer months, beginning with its annual Memorial Day weekend open house.
This year’s Memorial Day event included the return of Native American and other guest artists and crafts people, who displayed their work in the Indian Museum of North America and the Native American Educational & Cultural Center, located at the Crazy Horse site.
The highlight of the weekend was an explosive blast on the enormous mountain carving, on Monday morning, that sent a cloud of dust and rocks into the air. Precision blasting with detonating cord is necessary to safely shape and remove rock to within 20 feet of the final statue.
Case Excavator Arrives for Open House
,Work on Current Phase of Sculpture
A Case CX240 Excavator, which arrived in time for public display over the Memorial Day weekend, drew the attention of visitors as they passed through the entrance to the Crazy Horse site. Case Construction Equipment and its financing arm, CNH Capital, donated a significant portion of the cost of the Case CX240 Excavator, which joins a Case 9010B Excavator, a Case donation to the Foundation in 2001.
The new Case Excavator will allow the Foundation to work faster and more efficiently on the larger sections being blasted out of the mountain during the current phase of the work, which involves carving the 219-foot-high horse’s head out of the mountain one section at a time, working downward.
After each blast, one of the two Case excavators, along with two crawler dozers in the Foundation’s fleet, clears away the blast area by removing loose rock and depositing it over the side of the mountain for later removal from the site.
“The CX240 is a larger machine that can move more material and reach farther than our Case 9010B. It’s a very powerful tool,” said Kevin Hachmeister, who heads engineering for the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation. “We’re grateful to Case and CNH Capital for helping to make this machine available to us.”
