So they are demolishing the houses on the other side of the street to make 30 story 'condos'.
Folks have been scrounging lots of stuff so my wife and I decided to go in one of the last ones last night just to look and down in the basement was a 1901 upright grand piano.
I came home and checked out the make and age using the serial number on the net and they are selling from 600 to $1500.00.
So my kid got a few of his friends and my nephew showed up and I took my CJ7 over across the site to the back door, we put my 3" wide snatch strap and blue camping foam around the piano with a couple boards on the stairs and I fired up my Warn XD9000i winch.
Well, it came right up out of there likity split with the boys balancing it. I then was planning on pulling it across the boards to dirt, move boards, repeat, repeat, but the wheels dug into the back cedar plank I was using so the boys just balanced it and it came home on a custom 'ski'.
An old friend stopped by today out of the blue for a visit, looked at it and gave me $500.00 for it. He is coming back to move it at his expense.
Cool, that was about a half hour's work. I have to put on a rib BBQ with escargot to start with home made biscuits made into strawberry shortcakes for the helpers.
Nice piano, it was still in tune and only one ivory has a slight chip.
Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's