-
-
-
Mega Movers : Season 2
-
Air date: 11 Jul '06 - 17 episodesMega Movers is a television program on The History Channel. It first aired on April 18, 2006. The program details the preparations and inside problems and details of large moves, such as historical buildings being relocated to new sites miles away, oil derricks and such like difficult moves.
-
-
List of Episodes (17)
-
Mega Movers (2006)
-
1. Space Machines
11 Jul '06From the Earth to the moon and beyond, NASA has made some of the most spectacular Mega Moves in history. They have the option to transport huge cargo through a route unavailable to most movers: the air. In Florida, the crew of one of the world's most unusual looking airplanes will move a piece of the International Space Station to a facility in Alabama. And in Colorado, NASA will use one of Russia's largest cargo jets to transport sections of the Atlas satellite rocket for an upcoming launch. Do
-
Mega Movers (2006)
-
2. Strange Structures
18 Jul '06Everyday Mega Movers are asked to move some very strange structures. In Mississippi a crew tackles century old 150 ton oak trees. These eight story tall trees with root extending 60 feet survived Hurricane Katrina. Now they must survive this Mega Move. In Maryland a veteran Mega Mover will confront a 146 year-old Victorian house that is thought to be jinxed. For years many have tried to move it, and all have failed after facing major issues with utility lines, clearances, property, and
-
Mega Movers (2006)
-
3. Season 2, Episode 3
25 Jul '06A large brick building constructed in 1906 is moved. A shoreline is reinforced with 2.7 million cubic yards of sand. A 60 ton steam shovel is moved 5 miles. A 30 ton rocket is transported inside an airplane.
-
Mega Movers (2006)
-
4. The Obelisks
01 Aug '06
-
Mega Movers (2006)
-
5. Ships Moving Ships
19 Apr '07Suppose the world's largest aircraft carrier, the 1,092 feet USS Ronald Reagan, came under enemy attack and was crippled at sea. There's not a ship big enough to rescue it and move it back to the U.S. for repairs. Watch as engineering theorists design and build the largest heavy-lift submersible vessel ever to lift it out of the water and haul it halfway across the world. Then, as war rages in the Middle East, the U.S. Naval fleet is at increasing danger of being destroyed by enemy deep-sea
-
Mega Movers (2006)
-
6. Extreme Aircraft Recovery
26 Apr '07World War II aircraft...lost for more then 50 years, they are discovered in some of the most hostile locations imaginable. Driven by a desire to preserve these relics, Mega Movers risk their lives and go to extremes to salvage four aircraft. Braving sub-zero temperatures, they free a P-38 entombed 260 feet below a glacier. Working on the floor of the frigid North Sea they recover a rare Nazi Focke-Wulf 190. A B-24 on a remote island has to be hauled down towering cliffs and dragged
-
Mega Movers (2006)
-
7. Ancient Mystery Moves
10 May '07They are miracles of engineering dating back thousands of years -- remains of ancient structures around the world that seem too heavy to move. From the towering 80-ton statues on Easter Island...to the Roman God of Thunder's Temple 800-ton trilithon stones...to the colossal 30-ton stone heads moved eighty miles over brutal mountainous terrain. Scientists and engineers search for clues and set out to solve the mysteries of how primitive Mega Movers pushed the limits of ingenuity and pulled
-
Mega Movers (2006)
-
8. Silo
17 May '07
-
Mega Movers (2006)
-
9. Tall Structures
24 May '07Their soaring height is imposing. Their narrow design makes them some of the most difficult and dangerous structures to move -- from the 100-foot-tall obelisks of Ancient Egypt to the 1,483 foot tall Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. Those that dare try to move these tall structures face almost certain defeat. Yet, despite the risks Mega Movers prove it can be done - first by peering into the future to move two of the world's tallest skyscrapers, and then taking on a present-day challenge
-
Mega Movers (2006)
-
10. General Store
31 May '07
-
Mega Movers (2006)
-
11. Lock, Stock & Barrel
07 Jun '07It's a scenario right out of a science fiction movie. What if in the future the Pentagon - the world's largest office building - had to be moved, while operating at full-capacity? That's 3.7 million square feet of office space and nearly a million tons of weight. Could it be done? One Mega Mover theorist lays out his plan for this extraordinary move. Then these same principles are put to the test when two thriving businesses -- a general store and a funeral home - must be moved with all its
-
Mega Movers (2006)
-
12. Sinking a Ship
14 Jun '07Ships are purposely sunk for different reasons - scuttled to keep out of the hands of enemy forces, or decommissioned and transformed into artificial reefs. But in the future it might not be only ships that are sunk. Imagine if a towering skyscraper was facing the wrecking ball and instead of demolishing it the owners brought in a Mega Mover to lower it onto a barge, float it out to sea and sink it as an artificial reef! In Brownsville, Texas a World War Two attack transport ship, the U.S.S
-
Mega Movers (2006)
-
13. Texas Clipper
21 Jun '07
-
Mega Movers (2006)
-
14. Season 2, Episode 14
28 Jun '07The world's oceans are graveyards for some of the greatest ships ever built. But thanks to Mega Movers some of them have risen from the dead. During the mid-1500's the English warship Mary Rose was sunk by a French cannon. Many times it was attempted to be recovered but they all ended in heartbreak. Finally, more then 400 years after it sank, its massive 580-ton hull would be raised from its watery grave. In the Baltic Sea the 17th century warship, The Vasa, was heralded as the greatest
-
Mega Movers (2006)
-
15. Sub Salvage
05 Jul '07Mega Movers salvages a submarine.
-
Mega Movers (2006)
-
16. Ships on Land
12 Jul '07The team defy convention as they move a famous 1879 schooner - not through the sea, but rather the narrow city streets of Charleston
-
Mega Movers (2006)
-
17. Moving an Airport
19 Jul '07The task of relocating part of the Denver International Airport, and physically moving the TWA terminal at JFK International nearly a quarter of a mile
-
