Richard Hash
10-03-2003, 2:35 PM
I just finished making a "temporary" move to a townhouse, waiting for a new house to finish completion (where at least I'll have a good part of a 2.5 bay garage with a 10' extension, up from half of a 2-bay garage).
I had planned to move all my stuff in the garage by myself, renting a tail-gate lift truck, but (like a fool!!!) was talked out of it by the moving company ('not a problem') and my wife ('why bother?') and myself ('I am *so* tired already!'). Did I mention that little voice was talking?
Everything about the move went smoothly until the 3 guys came out the garage and looked around. I could immediately tell by the look on their faces that they hadn't been warned by their boss about moving any large tools (the little voice piped up). Nonetheless, we were committed and out of time at that point. Drill press, bandsaw, router table, standing cabinets, no problems. DJ-20 took some grunting to get it on a skate, and they needed some help pushing it up the ramp, but no problem. We had just finished getting my Unisaw (with extension table) up in the truck (on a skate) and I had turned around and was walking down the ramp, feeling victorious (obviously drowning out the little voice), when I heard this sickening bam! (little voice said "I told you so"), and immediately knew what had happened. I didn't even turn around for a couple of seconds, because I didn't want to see what I knew I would see. In trying to get it off the skate, the 3 guys had managed to let the entire thing tip over and fall on it's front face. They are oh-so fortunate to have gotten all their fingers and toes (or arms or legs) out of the way in time.
It already had a couple of moving blankets on it, which I'm still convincing myself had to have helped. The on/off switch snapped off (no great loss, I wanted to move it anyway). My biggest trouble is that I can't tell if there is any damage or not. The unifence rail does not appear to be damaged in the least, and the fence still slides smoothly. I'm sure the top will need to be realigned, and the left wing appears to have dropped just enough to catch a fingernail on.
The completely packed out garage it's stored in (for the next 4 months) doesn't have 220v, so this weekend I'm going to try to cobble together an extension cord from wire from a leftover 8/2 spool and a dryer plug and see if things work.
Moral of the story: If the little voice is talking, tell everyone around you to shut up and start listening!
I had planned to move all my stuff in the garage by myself, renting a tail-gate lift truck, but (like a fool!!!) was talked out of it by the moving company ('not a problem') and my wife ('why bother?') and myself ('I am *so* tired already!'). Did I mention that little voice was talking?
Everything about the move went smoothly until the 3 guys came out the garage and looked around. I could immediately tell by the look on their faces that they hadn't been warned by their boss about moving any large tools (the little voice piped up). Nonetheless, we were committed and out of time at that point. Drill press, bandsaw, router table, standing cabinets, no problems. DJ-20 took some grunting to get it on a skate, and they needed some help pushing it up the ramp, but no problem. We had just finished getting my Unisaw (with extension table) up in the truck (on a skate) and I had turned around and was walking down the ramp, feeling victorious (obviously drowning out the little voice), when I heard this sickening bam! (little voice said "I told you so"), and immediately knew what had happened. I didn't even turn around for a couple of seconds, because I didn't want to see what I knew I would see. In trying to get it off the skate, the 3 guys had managed to let the entire thing tip over and fall on it's front face. They are oh-so fortunate to have gotten all their fingers and toes (or arms or legs) out of the way in time.
It already had a couple of moving blankets on it, which I'm still convincing myself had to have helped. The on/off switch snapped off (no great loss, I wanted to move it anyway). My biggest trouble is that I can't tell if there is any damage or not. The unifence rail does not appear to be damaged in the least, and the fence still slides smoothly. I'm sure the top will need to be realigned, and the left wing appears to have dropped just enough to catch a fingernail on.
The completely packed out garage it's stored in (for the next 4 months) doesn't have 220v, so this weekend I'm going to try to cobble together an extension cord from wire from a leftover 8/2 spool and a dryer plug and see if things work.
Moral of the story: If the little voice is talking, tell everyone around you to shut up and start listening!