The 10m high sculpture was a highlight of the Commonwealth Games' opening ceremony.
Mr Dollar was in the control room for the big moment and in regular radio communication with the six strong team on the ground."One controlling the legs and that's all computerised, two puppeteers in the front controlling the head and, obviously, a driver and two people doing radio control of eyes, ears, horn, mouth etc.
"It was good fun. They didn't ask for all that in the first place but we go the extra mile to make it more interesting." Mr Dollar said the bull is about 2.5 tonnes but the telehandler that holds it up is 17 tonnes and there is a generator on the back.After the ceremony it took two hours to transport the bull from the Alexander stadium to Centenary Square, which is about five miles away."It had a police escort because at certain points in the journey it had to go round gantries so it had to drive on the wrong side of dual carriageways and that kind of things.
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