Friday, April 19, 2013

Went in to Greenwood, IN to deliver this morning.  The place was in a residential area with narrow roads.  Had to go real slow while oncoming traffic had to go half way off the road to get around me.  Of course this was happening when everyone was going to work and the school buses were picking up kids.  When they showed me where the place was and the way in I knew right away that there was no way I was going to get in there.  Also it had been raining there a lot!  The ground was saturated.  The rivers, streams, and creeks were all overflowing.  Any tire off road would immediately sink in the mud.  I pulled off to the side at a bridge, the only wide place on the road.

It is hard to see in the next photo, but there is about a two (or more) feet drop off on the other side of the road.  No wiggle room at all.

When the rest of the crew arrived it became apparent that they had already made plans to unload me in a different location.  I had to turn around and go back to a golf course parking lot about a half mile up the road.  The crane was going to set up there and I was going to be off loaded.  The building was going to be put on a much smaller trailer with a much smaller truck so it could get in there.

Here is the crane setting up.  The truck next to the crane in the next photo is the truck that had the crane rigging, not the one to be used to transport the building.

Here is my truck parked next to the smaller truck.

When they finished rigging the crane I backed up next to the crane.  They lifted the building up and I pulled out.  Then the smaller truck backed under the building and they set it down.

When that was done I left there and drove up to ARI in Shipshewana, IN.  That is where my sleeper was made.  I have an appointment Monday morning to have a few things fixed.  When I got there they were super nice.  I was able to refill my water tanks and I had a place to plug in so I didn't have to run the generator.  They even gave me a car to use for the weekend!!  I will make very good use of that!!  Went to Wal-Mart right away!!