Yaay, the radiant floor panels from Warmboard arrived yesterday! Now they are all moved into the house and stacked according to kind (Straight Run, Right Turn, Left Turn, and Double Turn).
Boy, that was easy to say, wasn’t it? The reality was quite different.
I realized just two days before the delivery that this shipping company does not condone having forklifts stuck on the back of their trucks like remoras (I see that sort of thing all the time in Los Angeles). I knew that each Warmboard panel (4feet x 8feet) weighed about a hundred pounds. And that we expected 35 of those panels. That’s 3500lbs worth of big unwieldy panels with delicate edges… and little old me to unload them.
I looked into renting a forklift, but then learned that the 4×8 pallets of Warmboard (at least they were in two pallets, each just under a ton) were not on a flatbed but in a shipping container sort of truck, and had to be lifted from their ends. That meant a heavy duty forklift with at least 6′ long tines. Plus some way to drag the second pallet close enough to the mouth of the truck to reach it with the forklift… Never mind. I have friends. Don’t I?
Yes, it turns out I do. Here they are!
=:= Mr. Peters, Frank Escobar, Virgil Gray, Donnie from across the street, Doug Peters, Eddie Arellano, Steve Storm, and Remy Schrader =:=
I am SO GRATEFUL to these fellows who showed up with one day’s notice, all of them taking time off whatever work they were doing, to help me unload all those Warmboard panels by hand. “Many hands make light work”, and fun too.
I had promised to buy lunch for anyone who came to help, but only Eddie, Frank, Remy and Steve took me up on the offer. And Steve wound up buying ME lunch!
Oikos is, once again, just as important a resource as time, money and expertise. And a lot more precious to me.
