Dan, with all due respect, when I read of your trials; I hate your house.
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Dan Rossi wrote: > Yesterday morning, the truck carrying my lumber order showed up at the > bottom of the stairs. I struck an agreement with the two guys, that they > would back the truck right up to the steps, pull their ramp to the first > landing, which skips the first 10 steps, then hand carry to the long > landing, which is another 10 or so steps. For that, I'd give them an > extra 10 bucks each. Then I would have to carry the lumber from the end > of the long landing, up another 25 steps, down the courtyard, around the > house, and into the basement. > > This not being my first time at this, I broke out my tools, a 20 foot long > length of flat tubular webbing. With this, and a fist full of Ibuprofen, > I can move just about anything. > > I don't think I can accurately describe this. I tie the webbing into a > large loop. I then stack up some lumber on top of a couple of bricks. I > slide one end of the boards through the loop of webbing. I then crouch > down next to the lumber, with the stack of boards to my right. I pull the > doubled webbing up my back and over my left shoulder, then down in front > of me. I take the doubled webbing and wrap it around the stack of boards > twice, leaving enough of the end for me to hold. > > When I stand up, all the weight of the lumber is on my shoulder, not my > hands or arms. Even the free end of the webbing has very little tension > on it because the friction of it against the wood holds it in place. > > It makes it quite easy to haul the lumber for any distance. > > Because I had a mix of treated and untreated lumber, it reminded me of > just how damn heavy the treated boards are. > > Lastly, my handy dandy, brand new, panel carrier did not come in handy. I > tried hauling one of the OSB sheets with it, but it was just to damn > heavy. So I tried looping the webbing around my shoulder and then hooking > the handle of the carrier through the loop. No joy. Still too heavy to > maneuver it up the stairs. So I ended up ratchet strapping the boards to > a dolly. it took a long time, but I eventually got everything up there. > > I'm hurtin today. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu > Tel: (412) 268-9081 >
