Yes pretty much a machinery desert here.@PaulL sounds like Vancouver Island is like Nova Scotia, slim pickings and make up your mind fast! I think you did quite well if you hired someone else to ship it and got the machine on your door step for $5k.
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@PaulL sounds like Vancouver Island is like Nova Scotia, slim pickings and make up your mind fast! I think you did quite well if you hired someone else to ship it and got the machine on your door step for $5k.
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Hey, but David, you are on an island.Yes pretty much a machinery desert here.
We definitely don't want a bridge!Hey, but David, you are on an island.
Until they build another Confederation Bridge on the West Coast . . .
Everything has to be shipped in !!
LOL
So now sending out a batsignal to folks in Victoria.It's been loaded, and should be in my driveway tomorrow mid-day! Gantry is set up, shop is cleared, might have to pull off the top rail of the garden gate to get through, but I'm all sorts of excited.
And belay that. Home Depot has their F250 available tomorrow morning, so grabbing that and loading up.So now sending out a batsignal to folks in Victoria.
Glad it worked out!Thanks David - your solution is infinitely better. Adam is picking it up for me tomorrow.
I was getting panicy there, and that's a terrible way to move heavy things.
[nominally the truck can handle 3000lbs, and I was getting ready with some significant dunnage to spread the base weight and decent straps to hold it upright, but ugh]
Thanks David - your solution is infinitely better. Adam is picking it up for me tomorrow.
Noon! 2 more hours. On the plus side my shop is getting tidier by the minute.What's the ETA now?
We’ll need pics Paul!Noon! 2 more hours. On the plus side my shop is getting tidier by the minute.
Noon! 2 more hours. On the plus side my shop is getting tidier by the minute.