Eric:
I have a good story about hauling and moving that was related to me by the fellow that owns the auto parts store in town.
Right across from the auto store is a bank. The main floor of the bank is elevated above street level by about 10 feet. The main doors of the bank open at an angle that points diagonally across the main street.
Anyway, the bank decided that it needed a new safe. The original safe from when the bank was built was at least 40 years old and they wanted an up-to-date safe, the built in kind. The bank auctioned off the safe which was an old Wells Fargo type, on wheels, but heavy as a tank.
The guy who won the auction decided that he and a couple of his buddies were going to get this old, very heavy safe out of the bank and into their stake truck.
My friend didn't see the initial movements of the safe inside the bank, however. What he did see was the safe poised at the door, wheels pointing toward the sidewalk, begin an uncontrolled descent down the steps, over the curb and down main street. He said it traveled about 250 feet before coming to rest in the side of a local school bus that was parked. I don't know if the guys got a ticket for illegally driving a safe on a public road or how they got the safe into their stake truck. What I was told is that the trip down the steps and the drive down the street screwed up the tumbler mechanism and the door was jammed shut. I think the scrap yard was the final depositor. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
