I'll be posting again..

after this weekend..If I live through it

Picking up that nice big wood furnace I mentioned prior..it is being coaxed out of it's basement home with a wrecker..(tow truck and winch)..probably strapped to a piece of plywood and pulled up and out of a bilco door

I wont have it that easy..It has to come in my breezeway..the into my kitchen through a door..IMMEDIATE right hand turn down a set of cellar stairs that end more or less in the corner of the basement..that means another turn, to the left this time and across the basement to the other end...Oh joy

I will try and take some pictures of this debacle and post them should I survive

Well..I am alive and the furnace is in the basement.

It was taken up out a set of Bilco doors with a wrecker..that was sweet..dropped into a pickup truck..we drove it to my house and neighbor Joe brought over his backhoe..we took off all the outside tin casing and doors etc..stripped down to the firebox and bottom frame and heat exchanger..picked it up off the truck and set it by the breezeway door..I took the time and vacuumed everything out and blew it off..bucketed it to the side door and through..onto a dolly..up through the kitchen door and turned it to send it down the stairs..two slings and about 30 feet of 3/4" nylon cord..backed the backhoe as far back as we could..sling around the bucket..rope through a window..sling around the furnace..we started her down the stairs and Joe kept tension on the rope..my wife was the signal person up in the kitchen and my brother and I were at the backside helping it down the stairs..it was an unsettling feeling..I knew it was good rope but it was all that was between us eating a 300 or 400 lb furnace..we eased her down..joe eased the backhoe towards the house..and my wife was the go between..the turn at the bottom of the stairs was tricky but we kept easing her down and I pulled her towards the dolly and my brother kept the ass end on the stairs till the last part and she dropped right on

whew

gonna assemble the casings tomorrow and plenums and move towrds wiring it..BUT..we have a christmas tree to cut down and pictures with us and 6 kids for cards..she will be up and running soon