Crane Tech was recently selected by the Smithsonian Institute to provide rigging training for those tasked with moving art work and artifacts. The Smithsonian’s Support Center regularly handles objects of considerable size with diverse configurations. The item shown below is extremely unique  the largest bone known to mankind. Part of a mandible (jawbone) from a blue whale, the bone weighed in at over 1,100 lbs. and more than 19 feet in length. Pictured to the right is a blue whale skull next to a warehouse door, to give an idea of the scale of the animal. Pictured below, Crane Tech instructor Jeff Ellis (black shirt), assists Smithsonian personnel in calculating the weight and center of gravity of the bone and careful rigging of the bone for movement.
 

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