Loaded a Hawk hood today (to keep this thread on topic)...
Almost everything is loaded. Even this PC is stripped down to just a monitor. Kind of like the silence. No Microsoft dings and chimes and boings... One of the bigger ugly pieces to load is our antique square grand piano (some call it a coffin piano, because when it is closed up it looks like a coffin. It was built sometime between 1862 and 1868 in Portland, Maine by Calvin Edwards... I moved it once from the UP (Yooper country) to Illinois (Fib country)... Had the moving company bring it to Florida... Got a quote for $300 to load it, $100 a month to store it, $500 to ship it, and $300 to unload it. Went to Harbor Freight and bought one of those hydraulic carts and a couple of the smaller moving dollies.
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removing the pedal assembly and rods, we wrapped the piano in moving blankets and put a small 2x3 frame on one side (to keep the piano from putting weight on the lid when it was on it's side).. Ratchet strapped everything snug. Centered the hyd cart underneath and lifted the piano off of it's legs.. Unscrewed the legs (about a 3"x6 tpi wood stud!) and set the piano back down on the dollies. Repositioned the cart and raised it so the weight was just on the cart and rotated the piano 90 degree's on the cart so it was sideways (to go through the door). Set it back down onto the dollies and put one dolly about a foot further toward the center. Rolled the piano into the garage door so the long end was hanging over the edge (about an 11" single step down to the garage floor) Put the hydraulic cart under the end and picked it up off the one dolly. Rolled it further out the door and set the one end down on to the other dolly (now on the garage floor. Repositioned the hyd cart in between the dollies and picked up the piano again, but now on the garage floor. Set it back onto the two dollies and rotated the piano flat again. Raised the piano with the cart to pickup bed level. Backed the pickup as far as possible underneath and slid it into the bed (with 2 2x4 runners underneath) Took the three of us (my wife, daughter and myself) about 20 minutes. No grunting, sweating, or even any scary parts. The truck will be tarped and kept inside until the trip up and then it will be kept under cover until it goes in. Jeff
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