From: Tony Mugno (amugno@optonline.net)
Date: Thu Apr 07 2005 - 12:43:53 PDT
I had to move a 2000lb Mini excavator with a blown engine UP my driveway
(30') then up a 6 inch curb with nothing more than 4 lengths of 3" pipe,
some 2x lumber and a 2 1/2 ton car jack. I actually rolled it over into the
dirt accidently. took 3 hours but I got the job done BY MYSELF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Convoy Magazine" <convoymagazine@yahoo.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] eBay tale of woe....
>I agree..adapt improvise etc.
> where there's a will there's a way
>
> I once had to move a V8 engine block down my gravel
> driveway by myself...hmmm
> got two old sheets of plywood, my son's skateboard,
> rolled block onto skateboard, steered skateboard down
> to the end of second sheet. picked up the first placed
> it next in line etc.. Slow but got the job done..
>
> cheers
>
> --- MV <MV@dc9.tzo.com> wrote:
>> That's exactly what I was thinking. Just pick it up
>> and move it. It's
>> not like we are talking about 15,000 lbs sunk into
>> the mud!
>>
>> Even alone, it is amazing what you can do with some
>> pipes (rollers) and
>> planks. That guy should of headed for home depot -
>> picked up some fence
>> tubing and 2x6's and got it done.
>>
>> m35products wrote:
>> > It weighs 500 pounds? The trailer won't fit down
>> the driveway? Adapt,
>> > improvise, overcome.
>> >
>> > Get nine friends/neighbors to help carry the thing
>> to the curb, where the
>> > trailer is sitting by prearrangement.
>> >
>> > 10 people into 500 pounds = 50 pounds per person.
>> >
>> > Next question?
>> >
>> > apb
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Michael S. Nichols"
>> <m.s.nichols@comcast.net>
>> > To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
>> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>> > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 10:18 PM
>> > Subject: [MV] eBay tale of woe....
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>Hello fellow listees,
>> >>
>> >>I thought I would share my tale of eBay woe with
>> you all, in the hopes
>> >
>> > that
>> >
>> >>you will not make the same mistakes. In early Feb
>> of this year I listed
>> >
>> > my
>> >
>> >>M151A2 repro body for sale on Ebay, and the sale
>> closed on 17 Feb 05. The
>> >>purchaser had 15 days to remove the M151 body from
>> my property. Well,
>> >
>> > here
>> >
>> >>it is 6 April, and the 500 lb steel body now sits
>> outside my enclosed shop
>> >>in my back yard to the delight of my neighbors
>> here in the Emory
>> >
>> > University
>> >
>> >>neighborhood. The purchaser did attempt to
>> trailer it home within the 15
>> >>days, but the trailer he brought from Columbia SC
>> was too wide for my
>> >>driveway. On the bright side of things, I did get
>> all but $125 of my sale
>> >>price that fateful day in cash. So what did I do
>> wrong? I neglected to
>> >>state anything in my EBay listing about a per diem
>> storage fee if the body
>> >>was not removed promptly within the 15 day period.
>> I also neglected to
>> >>state a consequence in my Ebay listing if the
>> body was not removed by a
>> >>certain date.
>> >>
>> >>The purchaser assures me that he will pick it up
>> "soon", and pay me the
>> >>remaining $125 at that time. However, he has not
>> jumped at my suggestion
>> >>offered a month ago that he rent a proper sized
>> trailer and come and get
>> >>this item ASAP. I am beginning to feel a bit put
>> upon........Any
>> >>suggestions from the list? Thanks in advance!
>> >>
>> >>Regards,
>> >>
>> >>Mike Nichols
>> >>1972 M151A2 Project vehicle
>> >>Repro A2 body to be used as a tomato planter
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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