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Andyp wrote::D
What on earth is it? Does it dismantle at all?
AJB Temple wrote:...I did ask if she had checked dimensions as we have awkward winding stairs. Oh yes, it will be fine.
The bottom half duly went up, with difficulty. Tentatively I opined no chance for the top half which was twice the weight and twice as tall. We struggled to no avail.
AJB Temple wrote: If I had an indoor crane....
Just4fun wrote:My friend Dave worked for a house removals company and went to a rabbi's house to give a quotation for moving their things to a new house. (Sounds like the start of a joke but this is a true story). In one upstairs room they had a piano and Dave could not work out how to get it out of the house. Much measuring did not solve the problem so Dave asked the rabbi how they got the piano into that room in the first place. The rabbi said they removed the window and used a crane to get the piano in that way. So Dave looks out of the window and there is a cherry tree growing there. How did they get the piano past the tree, Dave asked. The tree wasn't there then, answers the rabbi.
Dave said the only way to get the piano out was to fell the tree. The rabbi said he could not do that because, for religious reasons, he was not allowed to fell a fruit-bearing tree. Stalemate.
The rabbi came up with a solution. He suggested that Dave add £5 to the quotation. Then on the day of the move Dave should buy the tree from the rabbi for £5. The tree would then belong to Dave and he would be free to fell it if he wanted to, and everyone would be happy. So Dave added £5 to the removal quotation.
On the day of the removal the rabbi asked Dave if he remembered their agreement. Dave said yes, and handed over £5. The rabbi told Dave the tree was now his and he was free to chop it down.
Dave thought about it and said he had decided he really liked his tree and would not chop it down. The rabbi was not happy, but what could he do?
Dave made sure nobody touched the tree or the piano until everything else was removed from the house. Only then, after many protestations by the rabbi, did he agree that the tree could be felled.
There is probably a lesson in there somewhere but I don't know what it is.
novocaine wrote:how about a load of bits of wood to make a tower, a bit like how Mike got his ridge in.
Just4fun wrote:I had a large (12-seater) dining table delivered and the delivery crew would only leave it on the drive. It was basically flat pack, in a huge cardboard box, and very heavy. There were 4 of us here at the time but we really struggled to get the table into the house and manoeuvre it into the dining room. I even got a couple of trolley jacks underneath it to try and help lift & move it.
Once in the dining room we removed the packaging and bolted on the legs. After that it was a lot easier to move if only because it was easier to grab hold of.
So would this help you? Would it be easier to get it into position if you unpacked it first?
AndyT wrote:Powered staircase climbing sack trucks exist, eg https://www.palletrucks-trolleys.com/pr ... ck/mtk-310
If your wife doesn't want to buy one, she could hire one instead, eg here, from £67 a day.
https://www.bestathire.co.uk/material-h ... ir-climber
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