Instead of dumping them on the ground (and breaking several), it stacked them together on pallets and used a small crane to lift them off their truck.

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From that third country, Whitman said, the containers were loaded onto the SS Gopher State, a U.S.-owned crane ship normally used to haul equipment in and out of war zones.

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To get the set onto the hotel's roof, the producers used a 300-foot construction crane.

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At one point, the man used the radio in the cab of the crane to talk with police, but "none of the communications we had with him were very productive, " he said.

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