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originally posted by: Vasa Croe
From the picture it also appears it may be concave on the sides.....look at the base.
Something similar to this, though I can see the other sides.
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: Vasa Croe
I think what you'll find is it is actually flat. What you're seeing is dirt mounded up on the front side, and the reason for this is water drained off the rocks above through the crevice behind the object. The direction of drainage is towards the camera (the whole area drains to the south), the camera is pointing NW. So, as the water drained by the object it created an eddy behind it were dirt piled up.
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
originally posted by: SeaWorthy
a reply to: Vasa Croe
I have been all over the area too, and I think if they packed it back and used some of that water you would never see what they disturbed.
Cleary a HUGE operation though to get that thing all the way out there and install it!
years ago we had a metal fabricator create a stainless tank for us, about 4 by 6 stainless, pretty expensive a couple hundred years ago and they clearly did not create a seamless like that.
The art project mentioned in the thread was very similar sounding with a 9 ft metal obelisk.
Yeah....the metal fabrication for this would have been quite the undertaking. Whomever did it is good. It isnt just cheap sheet metal, tin snips and 2x4's....
I have a friend that fabricates and does a lot of privacy fencing and such and this would take him a while to get perfect.
I am of the thought it was made prior to transport as you never know how something will line up and can't imagine bringing in any tools you could use build this on site.