The job on the Marshall University campus in Huntington, West Virginia, entailed lifting the historic sculptural fountain off its base and placing it on a temporary platform near the Memorial Student Center so repairs could be made to the base and the plumbing could be updated. To avoid damaging the fountain?EUR??,,????'???s surrounding landscape, a crane with a long boom and enough capacity to lift 6,500 lbs. was required. A 350-ton GMK 6350 was specified by the lift engineer. The same crane will be called into service again to replace the fountain in March of this year.

For the lift, which took place on January 24, 2008, the crane had to be situated in a parking lot behind the Memorial Student Center to avoid damaging the grass around the fountain. But a pick with a long boom can be tricky. The memorial fountain was designed by sculptor Harry Bertoia to commemorate the 75 lives lost when a plane carrying the Marshall football team, coaches, flight crew, fans, and supporters ?EUR??,,????'??fell out of the sky?EUR??,,????'?? on November 14, 1970. The uplifting sculpture represents, in Bertoia?EUR??,,????'???s own words, ?EUR??,,????'?? a rising, renewing ?EUR??,,????'??? upward growth, immortality, eternality?EUR??,,????'?? and features 75 points, one for each life lost. The tragedy became a measure of time ?EUR??,,????'??before and after?EUR??,,????'?? for the university and was the subject of a 2006 Warner Brothers film, ?EUR??,,????'??We Are Marshall.?EUR??,,????'?? Every November 14, the anniversary of the crash, a memorial service is held. After a wreath is laid at the fountain, the water is symbolically turned off until the following spring.