“Is it safe?” That was the question we were asking. Not with a high speed dental drill in hand, but with an eye to the five day forecast. We needed a five day window, three with no rain in the past and two with none coming so we could book the truck in advance. The ten ton Isuzu with the crane arm.
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We initially planned to hire a truck with no crane and roll the container (2.5 tons) on logs and jack it and block it and jack it again until the truck could get under the front and winch and pull and somehow finagle it onto the truck bed. Turns out the truck with the crane was almost the same price and we saved ourselves and the container from almost certain destruction.
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David
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by david
Filed under: Recent News
![7/5/08: The sign on this cart says, \"Mysterious Junior Chariot--We are miles ahead.\" I\'m dying to see the Senior version.](http://www.rrop.org/wp-content/uploads/photosjune-2008/img_4386.jpg "7/5/08: The sign on this cart says, \\"Mysterious Junior Chariot--We are miles ahead.\\" I\'m dying to see the Senior version.")
Great journey. That storage container is pristine and cool. As minimalist as a good loft or prose.
David — I think I held my breath through that entire reading! Good to see that you were able to organize all of that, including the dry weather, and pull it off. It looks so matter of fact in the photo-story, but I know there must have been breath-holding moments for all of you. Congratulations — we have our first permanent building!
Peggy
Hi Chris,
I know. The container makes me want to transplant it to a Manhattan rooftop and live there. I believe I could conduct an orderly life out of it.
David
Hi Peggy,
Written like someone who knows Kenya. Although, if everything (read - anything!) regarding the project, had gone this smoothly, we would be graduating our first class of Secondary School students this June. It was a really nice change of pace.
Safe to exhale now,
David
Hi Dave, I tend to think all rhe experience putting up the “tower” at trade shows prepaired you for this moment! Love in Christ Gary
Hello my dear brother Gary!
It was that item “…experience in tower construction…” on my resume that persuaded the Board of Red Rhino that I was the man for the job. I neglected to mention the time Ed and I were up in the cherry picker at Moscone Center tickling the gigantic sign into place, when the union rep came running and cussing across the hall, screaming for us to cease and desist immediately or be cursed by the ghost of Harry Bridges for the remainder of our short, worthless lives. Do you think that was a breach of full disclosure on my part?
So good to hear from you. I’ll email and catch up. Love to Katherine and the kids, and to you,
David