Woot! Today was the day! The big pokie truck made it to my local and we did the transfer to a roll-back dance mid-afternoon. A local auction house up the road graciously allowed me to use their parking lot for the exchange. The owner was very understanding about the safety issues that precluded doing this on the busy road in front of my property.
Knowing the delivery was coming after a painfully long two month and one week wait, I spent a little time in the morning "recovering" from a recently finished project and cleaned things up. The spot was ready...
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Man..."big crate" is an understatement. Well built, too. It was holding down the driver's pallet jack nicely, but he had to move it off the trailer so we could proceed with the "extraction"
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This is when the fun began. None of us was "slim" enough to slip by the crate to recover the grapple that, um...escaped...from the cable when it was thrown under it. Yours truly volunteered to journey over the top to do the deed and this was my view during my little confinement in the nice trailer.
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Oooh...I see light at the end of the tunnel...
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Darn...that's a big crate
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Since we were only going 3/4 of a mile down the road to my property, the (really great) tow truck driver decided to leave the package on the back to speed thing up at my shop. He drove slowly, ticking off one dude from NJ who wanted to go much faster, but such is life. Once there, we were ready to unload it in front of my shop's double doors. Note that I do not have "garage" type doors and it was not possible to put the crate through those doors like some folks are able to do.
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The dude set that crate down within 3" of my "line" that insured I could open the doors once things were torn down
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No complaints about this method or this driver...totally worth the hundred bucks and I was nice and paid him in cash, too.(I gave the semi driver a cold drink because he arrived way early from the time the dispatcher expected my delivery and had to wait about 25 minutes for the roll-back to arrive. The latter was out on another job and had to complete it first)
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