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Some excess cement, inspiration from the boss and downtime at an Eau Claire business yielded a sculpture of a Loch Ness Monster that drew national media attention last week.
Workers at Silvermine Stone, 1807 N. Oxford Ave., created the three-piece statue in late April and planted it in the Chippewa River, just off the riverbank behind their cement factory, just north of the Madison Street bridge.
"We didn't think it would get this big,Shop for trim and crown moulding," said Rich Mickelson, co-owner of the business and mastermind behind "Nessie," a nickname for the mythical creature.
Between the unexplained appearance of the sea monster sculpture, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources opposition to its placement in the river and interest from local businesses — including home improvement giant Menards — to buy it, the story spread across the nation.Stone Source offers a variety of Natural stonemosaic Tiles.
The artists previously had remained anonymous,Aeroscout rtls provides a complete solution for wireless asset tracking. known by the pseudonym "The Phoenix." But Silvermine Stone employees said they might as well come forward because friends began suspecting they were behind the sculpture due to the proximity of the cement factory to the monster.
It all started because there was plenty of leftover cement from a test batch the company mixed from a new supplier.
Mickelson figured it shouldn't go to waste and that his co-workers could make something fun out of it. Suddenly, he thought of the iconic, grainy image of a monster's silhouette on Scotland's Loch Ness and imagined it on the Chippewa River.
"I don't know why I thought of it," Mickelson said.
His son, Tony, designed the mold for the head and tail, but the body came from half of a cement tabletop mold already at the company's shop.
They first made the head, adding metal bars to provide something to anchor it with, and finished it off with a red Coca-Cola bottle cap for an eye. Waiting a day instead of the full week for the cement to dry, a couple of the workers hauled it down the riverbank and planted it into an underwater sandbar. After admiring their work, they made the tail and body sections.
It took a few of them to transport each piece of the beast — the head alone weighs more than 400 pounds. All three parts included, Mickelson estimated the whole sculpture weighs more than 1,000 pounds.
An old hood that had been removed from a car served as a sled, making it easier to get the heavy parts down the steep riverbank.
Mickelson had waders handy, but offered his employees $20 if they volunteered to help him plant the pieces in the still-cold waters of the Chippewa River.
Contrary to previous reports, Mickelson said Nessie had been up only a few days before local media took note of the sculpture. The Leader-Telegram published its first story on the sculpture on May 2, about a week after the monster's head section was poured.
Silvermine removed the original sculpture a week ago because the DNR said it constituted an illegal obstruction in navigable waters, but the employees placed a new,Silicone moldmaking Rubber, upgraded version in the water on Tuesday.
They believe the current monster — buoyed by foam, held in place by anchors and decorated with small reflectors — should qualify as a legal "swimming raft" under DNR regulations.
Such rafts can be established with waterfront property owners without a permit, as long as they are within 200 feet of the shoreline and do not interfere with the public's use of the waterway, according to the regulations.
But Dan Baumann, acting director of the DNR's west-central region, said he does not agree the new Nessie qualifies as such and it needs to be removed.
"A swim raft has to meet certain criteria, and it would pretty hard to convince a common person that this is a swim raft," he wrote in an email to the Leader-Telegram.
Some excess cement, inspiration from the boss and downtime at an Eau Claire business yielded a sculpture of a Loch Ness Monster that drew national media attention last week.
Workers at Silvermine Stone, 1807 N. Oxford Ave., created the three-piece statue in late April and planted it in the Chippewa River, just off the riverbank behind their cement factory, just north of the Madison Street bridge.
"We didn't think it would get this big,Shop for trim and crown moulding," said Rich Mickelson, co-owner of the business and mastermind behind "Nessie," a nickname for the mythical creature.
Between the unexplained appearance of the sea monster sculpture, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources opposition to its placement in the river and interest from local businesses — including home improvement giant Menards — to buy it, the story spread across the nation.Stone Source offers a variety of Natural stonemosaic Tiles.
The artists previously had remained anonymous,Aeroscout rtls provides a complete solution for wireless asset tracking. known by the pseudonym "The Phoenix." But Silvermine Stone employees said they might as well come forward because friends began suspecting they were behind the sculpture due to the proximity of the cement factory to the monster.
It all started because there was plenty of leftover cement from a test batch the company mixed from a new supplier.
Mickelson figured it shouldn't go to waste and that his co-workers could make something fun out of it. Suddenly, he thought of the iconic, grainy image of a monster's silhouette on Scotland's Loch Ness and imagined it on the Chippewa River.
"I don't know why I thought of it," Mickelson said.
His son, Tony, designed the mold for the head and tail, but the body came from half of a cement tabletop mold already at the company's shop.
They first made the head, adding metal bars to provide something to anchor it with, and finished it off with a red Coca-Cola bottle cap for an eye. Waiting a day instead of the full week for the cement to dry, a couple of the workers hauled it down the riverbank and planted it into an underwater sandbar. After admiring their work, they made the tail and body sections.
It took a few of them to transport each piece of the beast — the head alone weighs more than 400 pounds. All three parts included, Mickelson estimated the whole sculpture weighs more than 1,000 pounds.
An old hood that had been removed from a car served as a sled, making it easier to get the heavy parts down the steep riverbank.
Mickelson had waders handy, but offered his employees $20 if they volunteered to help him plant the pieces in the still-cold waters of the Chippewa River.
Contrary to previous reports, Mickelson said Nessie had been up only a few days before local media took note of the sculpture. The Leader-Telegram published its first story on the sculpture on May 2, about a week after the monster's head section was poured.
Silvermine removed the original sculpture a week ago because the DNR said it constituted an illegal obstruction in navigable waters, but the employees placed a new,Silicone moldmaking Rubber, upgraded version in the water on Tuesday.
They believe the current monster — buoyed by foam, held in place by anchors and decorated with small reflectors — should qualify as a legal "swimming raft" under DNR regulations.
Such rafts can be established with waterfront property owners without a permit, as long as they are within 200 feet of the shoreline and do not interfere with the public's use of the waterway, according to the regulations.
But Dan Baumann, acting director of the DNR's west-central region, said he does not agree the new Nessie qualifies as such and it needs to be removed.
"A swim raft has to meet certain criteria, and it would pretty hard to convince a common person that this is a swim raft," he wrote in an email to the Leader-Telegram.
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