A ‘Tricky’ removal job for Pickfords
16-01-12
Pickfords helped to move a life sized dinosaur model this month, stopping traffic in Dorchester in the process.
The dinosaur, named ‘Tricky’ the triceratops is a long term resident of the Dinosaur Museum in Icen Way, Dorchester. Owners Mike and Jackie Ridley decided that Tricky was showing signs of age and needed a makeover. The work could not be carried out on site, so Tricky had to be moved to a workshop where the model could be cleaned and repainted.
Pickfords, the UK’s largest removal and storage company, was called in to move Tricky from the museum, via crane onto a flat bed vehicle, ready to be driven to the workshop. It took four men to move the model and one to watch the fragile tail as the life-sized dinosaur inched past telephone wires and metal railings.
The whole removal was filmed as part of Channel 5’s new series of ‘The Removal Men’, a fly on the wall documentary about Pickfords and its customers.
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