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Stub Mandrel05/02/2013 19:30:50
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Learn something every day - though my confverted garage must predate taht by a few decades.

We had a Dawncraft 22 craned into the garden, for about 2,500lbs. After a few years of abortive restoration we decided not to be one of those homes that has a boat in the yard for decades. The buyer was a geordie chap and one day I came home after dark to dicover the boat in the road outside lined up with a dedicated trailer behind his Landrover, supported by baulks of timber.

Somewhat reluctantly he accepted some help as it was getting dark and he had a long journey ahead. All went smoothly except when he used the electric winch as it came in with a jerk and the timber shifted and the whole thing came within an inch or two of falling on top of him. It took two of us an hour to get it on the trailer.

Before I had arrived he had shifted it a good thirty feet across and then out of the garden and round the gatepost into the road with just hand winches and virtually no opportunity to use the electric winch.

It was dark so I didn't really get a chance to count his fingers. He got a good deal - less than we paid to get it craned in, but at the end of the day he deserved it!

Neil

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