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-Is it recording? -The clock is going.
-At seventeen seconds? -Okay.
-So we'll start over? -No, no. Yeah. -From here. -Keep recording, yeah.
So, this is Carl Mehling speaking. We are in the Museum of Natural History's
big bone room and I'm gonna give a quick demonstration
of the forklift and what goes on in here.
So, this is a portion of the fossil amphibian and reptile collection
and researchers from all around the world come here to study
the fossils we have in our collections. And some of them
as you can imagine are big and heavy and awkward.
So, we use a forklift to pull them down.
This thing's a lot stronger than I am.
It's a very tight space in here, so
we do what we can.
I'm gonna pull down a pallet up there
that has a bunch of dinosaur limb bones on it.
It's a very safe, calm, slow, easy way to pick up
things that I'm not strong enough to pick up.
A little adjustment.
In our tight space. What I generally do is
just pull the pallet out and put it on the floor and the researchers work on it in place
right where I lay it
down.
And I haven't seen everything that's in here so we're going to take a quick look and
actually see what we have. Looks like sauropod bones and maybe
a hadrosaur femur.
Let's see how close I was on that.
You got AMNH 380,
which is a diplodocus right tibia.
380.
Which is a diplodocus again.
A left radius. Another diplodocus over here.
And this has got to be the hadrosaur.
So, let's just pretend the researchers finished
and I'm putting it back where it belongs.
Let's come down just a hair. Don't want to shave off the top of anything,
right?
Beautiful.
That's basically it. Maybe luckily for me and for the bones,
not many people study the larger stuff in comparison to the small stuff.
So I don't have to disturb them with this kind of behavior very often.
The cabinets across there have smaller things that are a little
more manageable and don't require forklift. But you know, this is one of the fun toys I
get to play with.
Give you a quick look at space we have here.
Bones, bones, bones - all dinosaurs.
Thank you, thank you.