Saturday, September 25, 2010

An afternoon adventure

When we bought this house, there was a large refrigerated unit left in the back yard...


I posted it on Freecycle, a site where people can recycle goods and keep them out of the landfill and received many inquiries about the unit, however, it was really heavy, it was behind a chain link fence and folks were stymied as to how to get it out.  After a month on Freecycle, there was no solution.

I gave it a rest but now the house is rented and it was time to try again.  This time I posted it on Freecycle and in the free section of Craigslist.

That's how I found John, the man with the plan(s)...

He came yesterday afternoon with 3 burly young men, some 4x4 posts, a large trailer with ramps and... the magic tool...  a tractor with a front-end loader attached.

I wish I had a picture of the first attempt but I wasn't fast enough.  They put the posts under the unit and tried to pick it up.  It barely moved.

Time for Massey Ferguson...


I think plan B might have been to flip the unit up on the bucket and just carry it out to the trailer, using the tractor.  Ingenious but the balance wasn't going to work...

On to Plan C...Use the bucket to push the unit around and align it with the gate...




Then winch it on to the trailer.


Mission accomplished!


Tools and ingenuity made a fine combination and everyone's happy. I never know what adventure is going to come up next but it's never boring.

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