"Nuts and Bolts"

There are several steel beams that span the top of the pedestal... just like with the old time Erector Sets, the bottom of the State of Liberty is bolted to these large steel beams. Although the scale is by no means obvious from this photograph, those nuts are the diameter of a human head... They'd take one hech of a torque wrench to tighten 'em down!

 

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