| The Enchanted Highway. Hettinger County, North Dakota | >> Click for the first picture >> |
The Enchanted Highway committee and the North Dakota State University Art Department chose a silhouette of Theodore Roosevelt for the second design. An architect drew the design to scale. After locating all the needed supplies, the area farmers set up a schedule to help with bending the pipes and welding. Each piece of pipe, weighing about 300 pounds needed to be bent according to drawing. This involved moving the piped from bender to drawing until they matched. Piece by piece the silhouette of Teddy Roosevelt took shape.
After all the pipes were cut and bent to the proper shape, the farmers welded them in three sections inside the shop. Next they moved the sections outdoors and welded them together. After welding them on one side they had to flip the silhouette over to weld the other side. Finally the support beams were welded and the silhouette was attached to the beams. Moving the silhouette to the site required hoisting it on a flat bed with a crane. Local police escorted the apparatus to the site. A typical North Dakota wind delayed the setting of the project for a couple of days. The workers dug holes for the beams and built a base around the beams for support.
The Regent High School -'93 shop class constructed the picnic tables and bulletin boards. The North Dakota National Guard agreed to help with the preparation of the sites. They haul large amounts of dirt to landscape the sites so that they would be accessible by cars. The also hauled the scoria. Regent men constructed the fences located on the site.
Statistics: -Teddy stands 51 feet tall
- the pipes are 1 3/4 inch well pipe
- 30 lengths of pipe were used (weight 300 lbs. each)
- the apparatus, weighs over 9000 lbs. with the beams
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