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Project 8c: Moving the Stuff |
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The Piano
One would think that moving a barn
would be harder than moving a Baby Grand Piano, but it didn't turn out
to be that way.
My father's piano came to me from
his estate and when it was time to load the estate, three New Jersey
moving men loaded my portion into this 26 foot truck. They struggled
mightily with the piano and managed to gently move it into the truck.
They warned me that I would need four men and two dollies to unload it
and carry it up the front stairs into the Cape.
I drove it 500 miles to Maine,
surrounded by other items that would be of use in the new house and
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I called my
trusty crew, led by Harold Dawson, and told him what the New Jersey
movers had said. I asked him to find three other men and two dollies. He
said he had the dollies and only needed two other men....because they
were from Maine!!!
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The men had no trouble unloading
the rest of the items, and they were safely ensconced in the barn and in
the Cape. Then it was time to move the piano. |
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When the men had struggled for six
hours, over two days, trying one plan and then another, and I had
searched high and low for a 'real' piano mover anywhere nearby in Maine,
the foundation builder came to save the day...his way. He offered
to use his mighty excavator to lift the piano from the truck ramp and
swing it safely over to the house, where we could move it in through the
front door. |
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The piano did
not make the trip unscathed, but she looks good in her new home. And the
men were happy to be paid and return home, never to move a piano again!
Stand by for the second and
third stages of the piano move! |
