The two halves have now been joined together and that all went quite well. I started in the workshop by suspending one half from the ceiling but it was all a bit cramped. I would have had to take the doors and part of the door frame off to get it out so decided to assemble it outside in the end. I used a scaffold tower to suspend one half and lowered it onto the bottom one. The globe is hollow and doesn't weigh very much so it can be moved fairly easily ( I hope).
Lowering the top onto the bottom.
It is 6 feet diameter and is held together with about
2800 rivets.
View from inside.
The wooden part is the former, half a sphere, on which the shape was created. It is not part of the finished globe.
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