Artist's spider is a nightmare job

It is a vertigo suffering arachnophobic’s nightmare; using an access platform to erect a giant sculpture of a spider outside London’s Tate Modern Gallery. Fortunately Panther Platform’s staff was up to the job, and used a Nifty Lift HR15N to help position the work - entitled ‘Maman’ by 95 year old artist Louise Bourgeois - between the Tate Modern and the River Thames.

Made from bronze, stainless steel and marble, the piece is one of a series of six enormous spiders built in the 1990s and will be on display until 20 January 2008. The 9m high work was no problem for the HR15N which as a 15.6m maximum height, 9.6m of horizontal outreach.