11 October 2012

Spent the morning and early afternoon loading stuffing the van.  Moved Hopea Kanootti into the shed and rigged up a two fold purchase (block and tackle) to hoist her up, up and out of the way.  Ran errands in Middlebury (most important of which was getting some more Ben & Jerry’s 5/16″ choker chains at Champlain Valley Equipment) en route to Lynne & Perry’s, where Perry and I moved a new 400 pound woodstove from the back of his pickup into his basement.  Good thing we’re both kinda strong!  While we were working on that little project Bob Giddings called.  His maintenance shop burned to the ground at noon today… with my new tractor in pieces inside when the fire started.  Bob’s people managed to drag all the major components out of the building before the fire got to them, but it’s going to be awhile before they can put ‘er back together again.  Perry and I then drove over to ∆□Ο to load my radial arm saw into the van.  I knew the saw table was just a smidgeon too long to fit athwart ships, but the van was so full that the saw wouldn’t fit with the table fore and aft.  “Why don’t we just cut an inch off each end of the table?”, said my brilliant brother-in-law.  Duh!!!!  (…and why didn’t ole sawdust-for-brains think of that solution two years ago????)  Sawing done, the saw fit perfectly in the space remaining.