moving day:
I selected a day convenient to the owner, to go dig out his dish.
Well, my other buddy with an SUV went on vacation that week.
So, we took down the Birdview as you see above, and left it for later pickup.
During that time, a second dish became available.
See my other thread on the AMCI & AJAK.
So here we were, coming down to the wire, for a 2-dish day, as I went to rent a trailer.
Well, I got all kinds of B/S about the big trailers they wanted to offer.
Making a long story short, they suggest a stake-bed truck, once I describe what I was doing.
BONG! -
- Man, this is THE solution for my needs.
A day-rental is reasonable ($70), but when they mention the per-mile charge of 25¢, I comment what a problem that'll be.
Immediately, they lower it by about half!
Hey, I wasn't even negotiating! Just being my friendly self.
In the end, they even gave me some sort of 10% preferred discount card.
I met up with a very good buddy at the site of the BV, and with the help of the owner, loaded it onto the truck.
We used a slightly different method of securing it for transport.
More akin to palletizing, than the crating you've seen in many previous BV moves.
. . . now if we'd just had that big shrink wrap . . . -
I got two 2x6's, 10' long. We drilled two holes in each, to match the bolt holes in the back of the BV dish.
It was a bit awkward to put the boards onto the back side of the dish, but once we did, that provided something to tie to.
As you can see, the motor uses the same bolt pattern, so it was secured to the far end of the 2x6's.
(...and we used the motor as the hole-template for the dish, too) - :up
Lowe's supplied the new bolts, nuts, and big fender washers to secure everything. Maybe $10?
The 9' long, 6" diameter pole was spaced away from the dish with our third 2x6, making for a perfect load.
Everything was tied down with cargo straps.
Some are the ratchet type; some aren't.
The mixed packages I got at Harbor Freight were deceptive in that respect.
Still, we used only two of the three packs, so we had ample reserves.
I drove the 30? miles home on surface streets, at around 30 miles per hour.
My buddy in the chase-car, kept an eye on me from behind, watching the load.
It traveled fine all the way home, in spite of the sometimes bumpy ride (a truck's a truck, for truck-sake!)
Load-up might have taken two hours (probably less)
Unload was maybe 1/2 hour. So, our technique was pretty good for short moves.
And then there was lunch! Continued in the AMCI + AJAK thread:
I selected a day convenient to the owner, to go dig out his dish.
Well, my other buddy with an SUV went on vacation that week.
So, we took down the Birdview as you see above, and left it for later pickup.
During that time, a second dish became available.
See my other thread on the AMCI & AJAK.
So here we were, coming down to the wire, for a 2-dish day, as I went to rent a trailer.
Well, I got all kinds of B/S about the big trailers they wanted to offer.
Making a long story short, they suggest a stake-bed truck, once I describe what I was doing.
BONG! -
- Man, this is THE solution for my needs.A day-rental is reasonable ($70), but when they mention the per-mile charge of 25¢, I comment what a problem that'll be.
Immediately, they lower it by about half!
Hey, I wasn't even negotiating! Just being my friendly self.
In the end, they even gave me some sort of 10% preferred discount card.
I met up with a very good buddy at the site of the BV, and with the help of the owner, loaded it onto the truck.
We used a slightly different method of securing it for transport.
More akin to palletizing, than the crating you've seen in many previous BV moves.
. . . now if we'd just had that big shrink wrap . . . -
I got two 2x6's, 10' long. We drilled two holes in each, to match the bolt holes in the back of the BV dish.
It was a bit awkward to put the boards onto the back side of the dish, but once we did, that provided something to tie to.
As you can see, the motor uses the same bolt pattern, so it was secured to the far end of the 2x6's.
(...and we used the motor as the hole-template for the dish, too) - :up
Lowe's supplied the new bolts, nuts, and big fender washers to secure everything. Maybe $10?
The 9' long, 6" diameter pole was spaced away from the dish with our third 2x6, making for a perfect load.
Everything was tied down with cargo straps.
Some are the ratchet type; some aren't.
The mixed packages I got at Harbor Freight were deceptive in that respect.
Still, we used only two of the three packs, so we had ample reserves.
I drove the 30? miles home on surface streets, at around 30 miles per hour.
My buddy in the chase-car, kept an eye on me from behind, watching the load.
It traveled fine all the way home, in spite of the sometimes bumpy ride (a truck's a truck, for truck-sake!)
Load-up might have taken two hours (probably less)
Unload was maybe 1/2 hour. So, our technique was pretty good for short moves.
And then there was lunch! Continued in the AMCI + AJAK thread:
