speaking of moving things

[rick]

I have a cast iron bench drill sitting at rob squires place in Adelaide that he was kind enough to pick up locally for me when there was a cash flow in my world ( before the deluge)
Its kinda heavy and I have to get it to Sydney and out of robs life , he has been more then accommodating but enough is enough .
Anybody got any ideas about a truck or a band or a jetpack that can get it to Sydney for me ?
I am dead beatout of excess moving heavy things funds in the current circumstances but its got to move ?
Thoughts ?
Rob can you post a photo when you have time ?

[Chris H]

Speaking of moving things.........sorry this won't help you Rick, but it took me a year to finally get my new project from Horsham to Sorrento and at half the price originally quoted; total cost $1300 plus $300 for the crane in Horsham...It arrived on Thursday.

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[Chris H]

Arrival in Sorrento:

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[Chris H]

in the back yard: ( getting it off the trailer without a crane was a work of art)

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[stosostu]

How many cubits is that?

[Chris H]

.........a cubit being aprox half a meter......
28 ft
8.5 meters
17 cubits

[rob]

here's the drill thingy of Ricks. If anyone has a lazy load going between adelaide and sydney ...

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weights 54kg, not quite a boat, but possibly a boat anchor?

[Linear]

if you can stick that in a box somehow, you could get it freighted with either e-go.com.au or smartsend.com.au

I had a Kawai electric piano which weighed about 50 kilos freighted from the Sunshine coast to Sydney (door to door) for about $60. a rock-si-chord from melbourne to sydney for about $30.

I also had a pair of Duntech speakers freighted from Brisbane to Melbourne for $60 inc insurance. they must have weighed about 40 kilos.

e-go is great!

Chris

[Alistair]

if you can stick that in a box somehow, you could get it freighted with either e-go.com.au or smartsend.com.au

Agreed. Smartsend can be weird people (they once told me I had underdeclared something, and that a small guitar amp I sent was 40 kilos and 3 metres cubed! I had to give them photographic evidence before they gave up on that one), but they are incredibly cheap for door to door service, and are a bit easier than the big courier companies in terms of heavy packages.

[Sammas]

If the drill somehow finds its way to Melbourne for pickup on Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning next week, I know a man with a bit of space in his Van that can collect it. ...all things going to plan, of course.

I also strongly recommend temando.com. Its a simple, automated service... gives you a bunch of options, automatically books pickup, emails you the consignment, etc. Cheap too!

[gigpiglet]

i have a couple of showfreight semis doing that journey in the next couple months
first for death cab for cutie, then for bon iver.
I'm sure i could get it on one.

[rob]

put it on the rider ...

[rick]

if you can believe this
gareth got this really heavy drill thing to sydney for me in the "death cab for cutie" tour semi trailer
he unloaded it and left it by the door in the inside of the enmore theatre as he knew I was on the way
some bright spark nicked it .. an took it somewhere else by mistake
currently missing in action will a vague phone trail of where it might be

there is always something .. always something

[Chris H]

What a bugger! Hope it turns up Rick. If it's any consolation, in the 60's one of my dad's apprentices nicked his Ramset gun when the family was making a move to South oz. When we moved back to Portland ten years later he found it stored in a shed where the apprentice had left it...........hope you don't have to wait ten years though!

[rob]

*groan*

[rick]

ok got it back !

[Chris H]

good on you! There would have been a good story in that for AT...............
hope their loss will be someone's gain