7 Jan
2009
7 Jan
'09
4:31 p.m.
On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:40 AM, Henk Gooijen wrote:
Thanks! These didn't actually have anything to do with Sridhar,
despite the context...should've mentioned that earlier.
On Jan 7,
2009, at 12:03 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
... snip very nice story with lots of heavy cool pictures :-) IIRC, Sridar has a story or two that,
fortunately, I can't top.
Yeah, but most of Sridhar's stories involve his gear nearly
crushing ME! ;)
This is rather severely off-topic, as most of the machines
described are pretty new, but I recently offloaded some very heavy
gear from a truck onto my driveway by myself Those machines were *just* small enough to go through
the opening
(standing upright). I bet that you measured the height first!
Unloading a truck can be quite a task with this stuff. For that
reason I always rent a truck with a hydraulic tail (or what the
proper name is for it).
But when everythiong is unloaded, yes, the memories are fun.
I neglected to mention that I flew from Florida to Chicago to pick
up that truck as a one-way rental, and the people in Chicago gave me
a rear door height measurement that was inaccurate by about six
inches. Pat and I were quite pissed to find that the truck was
actually too short to accommodate the Sun Fire 6800s, and we had to
lay them down. The other gear (including the E10K) is shorter,
though, and that stuff did fit.
Also, I was unable to find a truck with a lift gate for a one-way
rental, so this was the only real option. The upside is, now I look
like a god to my new employer. ;) He has moved a lot of very high-
end gear so he knows the difficulties involved.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL