The jackets varied in size and shape. Some were heavy and some were VERY heavy. All of the ßjackets had to be loaded on to a truck without the use of mechanized eqipment. The team had anticipated this challenge: they had packed an aluminum tripod, pulleys, ropes and a chain. the jacket pictured above - which contained part of a skeleton of a juvenile Jobaria - weighed 2500 pounds.

More than 20 tons of fossil material had to be loaded and reloaded on several trucks. The jackets made a 1000 mile journey south to the port in Accra (Ghana). On the docks the team loaded the bones into containers and shipped them across the Atlantic to New Jersey. Next the jackets were transported by train and truck to the Dinosaur Lab at the University of Chicago.