 Erecting the tent was no small task and it was
very physical and dangerous as well. Using cranes, ropes, pulleys and brute strength, the
tent is erected within a day.
To erect the tent, everything was bolted together except
one end of each girt and its corresponding girder, forming the jointed tent ridge. This
was a final manual operation after the remainder of the framework had been raised.
More than 25,000 spot welds were required to make the
frame. To raise the frame a truck is used to pull the cable, that raised the framework of
the tent into position. Sections of the tent material are hand laced together. The tent
fabric is snapped to wires which are run through pulleys in the rigging of the frame. The
huge silver covering was then pulled into position. |
