Upcoming Event: Football versus Southeast Missouri on September 5, 2026 at Noon


06.29.2011 | Football
AMES, Iowa - Construction crews raised the 357,000-pound video board support structure or "truss" on top of the Jacobson Athletic Building in the early hours Wednesday morning. The entire process took about two hours
A 600-ton crane on the east side and a 550-ton crane on the west side put the 357,000-pound truss in its resting place.
Click the "play" link in the photo above or the embedded video player below to see a video of the cranes lifting the truss. The video was taken from the camera bay on the top of the old scoreboard in the south end zone.
Time-Lapse Video: "The Big Pick" Videoboard Installation
"The Big Pick" Videoboard Installation Photos