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[Cob] Lifting vigasJUDITH WILLIAMS williams_judith at hotmail.comWed Oct 5 21:07:03 CDT 2005
Thanks for all the imaginative and very helpful suggestions, some I had thought of myself, others new to me. What I'll probably do is have a guy with a tree service truck come out and lift it for me. I just got off the phone with him. I gave him the dimensions and the scenario and he says it's baby stuff for him, his truck can handle 6 tons and he does this all the time. He usually charges $200/day but since my job is so straightforward and relatively small he'll give me a good deal. Now I have to put the push on and get all my vigas peeled and ready to go so I can have him do all the big ones while he's out there. He's planning on moving in a month or so - can't stand New Mexico?!?!?! Today I, by myself, cut and hauled 9 large logs from a site about 2 miles from where I'm building. PHEW! I do believe most people would be astounded at what they could accomplish if they just put their entire effort into it. I think a lot of people don't even try things that seem out of their scope. I'm really leraning a lot about myself and what I'm capable of. Thanks to all of you for your interest and encouragement. PS. I should add that the logs I got had already been felled. I just cut them to the sizes I needed and loaded them into the truck and took them home.
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