This is so cool! Crazy Horse Memorial

Due to his type of work, Mr. Lixy has been interested in this project for quite some time now. We've never taken the trip to see it but we definitely will someday!

The night blasts are his favorite! He's particularly interested in the geology aspect because the rock isn't indigenous to our area. He has to know and understand all the rock he is working with in order to do his job without incident. He'd love to hang out with the blaster's on this project!

Has anyone been to it? Walked on it? Seen a blast?

Tell me your stories!

For those who may never see it (from other countries or for whatever reason), check out the site. The pics are astonishing and the story is incredible!

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Wow! That is sooooooo cool! I knew that a sculpture was in the works but hadn't seen how far along it had gotten. What a treat to see something like that after hiking thru the beautiful area! Thanks Lixy!

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It's been "in the works" since about 1948 even! It's not funded by the government and so the process is ever so slow and very costly!

I work with a woman who made the trip last year. She said that the arm was just now starting to take shape (had been working on it for several years) and you could walk on it. The pics show that. They still have his headress, body and the horse to add. The horses head is painted out on the rock to show where it will be. I think it's shown in one of the pics.

When you hiked through the area Chey, didn't you catch a glimpse of the head?

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I'd love to go see that, too. What a fantastic sculpture.

Well.......being from South Dakota yes I have seen it, but at the time I went you could not get very close to it and work was at a stand still then too. It's really cool to see, worth the trip, also catch Mt. Rushmore and the BadLands too. Beautiful place!!!

Thanks soda! I'm guessing you saw the monument before the arm was walkable? Did you live close enough to hear the blasts when they happened?

Mr. Lixy said they are such tiny blasts (so as not to blow anything away that is going to be part of the finished sculpture), but that they do quite a few at once. And then they have to chisel, secure and clean up the blast area before they can go on to another part. It sound tedious, to say the least!

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Here's another link that'll show what the sculpture will look like when finished (a scale model), tell the story of why it is being sculpted, and give dimensions of it's full erection (<---I said erection )...

Memorial Story

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