We Move the Weird - Video

Lisa Holly, President of Berea Moving & Storage and WOOD-LEE International Art Handler, revisits one of her favorite topics...Moving the Weird, the Big, and the Ugly!

From Dinosaurs to the tour busses for Johnny Cash and John Madden, her team is always up to the challenge of carefully relocating irreplaceable items.

Transcript:

Lisa, good to have you again today.

Thank you, Brian.

So, a lot of times I hear you in our conversations talk about we move, the weird, the bad, the ugly things of that nature. Can you shed some light on that for me? Yes. A lot of moving companies, a lot of institutions all come to us.

We carry a lot of extensive, rigging equipment and things like that. So we're able to move safes, we're able to move pianos, we're able to move outdoor sculpture into someone's backyard, and then we're able to move dinosaurs. From our skill-set moving, smaller sculptures or lifestyle sculptures.

Now we're able to help put up dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum. So I definitely do the weird and you know, whatever you wanna call it, we do it.

Right, right. I know in the past too, you've done full scale exhibitions where you install and de-install, move, pack, store. That's one thing I think is awesome, but even some of the art installations you've done, you've moved vehicles, right?

Yes, we have moved, archival vehicles. Things that are going to be stored and placed inside of a museum, including Johnny Cash's tour bus. It is one of my most prized, possessions. It's not mine, but I still consider it.

Right. And we drive it wherever they need to take it. We put it in front of the rock hall for them. It's just a really fun and very, honored, you know, service that we are able to render. Sure. There was one time, I think you guys had an art installation where you were flipping cars over. Is that right?

Yeah. We were at Allen Memorial Art Museum, in Oberlin. And the artist wanted the cars flipped over on their tops. So in the gallery, we flipped it over. We also did that one other time, at the transformer station in, Tremont or Hinge Town, where we moved the cars upside down.

When we did that, all the glass shattered. It was crazy, but it was some kind of an install. I don't remember the artist, but I remember the experience. I made my guys wear safety gear and all this other stuff. we've turned cars upside down. Moving vehicles inside and outside of buildings.

Ones that obviously weren't drivable. the flipping was, something I thought was awesome. When you told me about that story, it was a great experience. if we could do that, we can do anything. I think that's the point.

Once you guys have the skills and the ability and the beautiful part of Woody, figuring out how this stuff can be manipulated, including dinosaurs, now you have that in your back pocket and can take that to almost anything, to your whole point. To anywhere.

Yes.

Thank you, Lisa.

You're welcome, Brian.