29 Oct
2005
29 Oct
'05
9:53 a.m.
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 06:53:31 -0700, vrs wrote:
From: "Bob Bradlee" <Bob at
BRADLEE.ORG>
> In the referb center we pushed them off moving vans and
No wonder there are so few of these machines left ;-)!
(I have always heard that the van should be stopped,
and
the machine lowered slowly :-).)
Vince
Takes the fun out of it :)
We had a 158 come in one day, we had one of those back into
the building and down a hill kind of loading docks.
While waiting for his turn, one driver began "preping to unload"
in the lot. When it came his turn he came in a bit fast and a MG
came off the back of the truck when he hit the stops hard.
This was before the dock hand could put the flat ramp in place
to cover over the "gap" between truck and dock.
I answered a cattle call to help getting it back on a smooth surface
where the casters acted as wheels and not as keyways.
There was a story where one of the other FE's dropped an MG
over the edge into an open floor section during installation.
I was assured that it was not fun to lift it back up to floor level.
Bob