The Piano Farmer!

kensfarm · Jan 6, 2004

Well it's Sunday.. the last day of the 4 day New Year's holiday... Thurs. I sharpened the chainsaw & cut up a half a dozen or more trees I had dragged to the barn.. I spent the entire Friday hauling dirt w/ the FEL to fill in a low spot by the house... Sat. I hit the feed store and planted 25 trees. My Sunday was all planned out.. gave the wood splitter the once over for fluids.. etc.. I was going to take it easy & sit on a stump and bust up all the wood I had cut up on Thursday.

I'm on the tractor.. it's running.. w/ the logsplitter in tow when the Misses(fiance') comes out to tell me the great news! The neighbors.. who are moving.. have a piano.. and they said she could have it!

Well.. I did get a little wood split that morning. The piano ended up being in their basement.. and it was heavy.. I tried but couldn't even lift one end off the ground. Using two sheets of plywood & the FEL made pulling the piano up the double flight of steps pretty easy. The old bale forks I had straightened(free from a dairy neighbor).. worked great for hauling the piano across the soybean field.. and lifted it high enough so that it would be a straight shot through the front door into the living room.

She said I looked so funny hauling that piano behind the tractor going across the field.. I told her it would have been funnier if someone was playing it as I was driving along.

Those are my cow boys(steers) behind me.. I think they were saying.. "Hey.. that's not Hay!"

Sometimes you just have to drop what your doing to please the one who puts up w/ you the most!

Bob_Skurka · Jan 6, 2004

Just thinking of your safety, but I think you might want to put a Slow Moving Vehicle sign on that piano. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

hazmat · Jan 6, 2004

Great Picture. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif My carryall is the best $100 I've spent on the tractor.

KrisHansen · Jan 6, 2004

That's great!

snowbound · Jan 6, 2004

I guess now would not be the time to explain that you should have professionals move pianos to avoid messing up the soundboard...the open air transport in the winter isn't that exciting....

But if the piano sounds good now that you've moved it then you're good to go. Wait a few weeks and have it tuned.

OkeeDon · Jan 7, 2004

Too bad those aren't milk cows -- I hear cows give more milk when you play music. You could haul that thing out there every day... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

JDgreen227 · Jan 9, 2004

Great picture, too bad you could not put a Gateway computer box atop the piano...you might have been able to sell the picture to Gateway for advertising purposes.

kensfarm · Jan 12, 2004

Thanks guys.. I spent the weekend splitting wood.. w/ this cold spell I had the fireplace, woodstove, and wood pellot stove working overtime. The neighbor's I got the piano from are also giving me a upright freezer & frig/freezer.. of course those are in the basement too!

I hate to see good neighbors move out.. they've been renting the house for some time.. and wanted move to an apartment.. to save up to buy a place of their own. I met them by plowing their driveway.. and have done so the last 4 or 5 winters.

bmac · Jan 12, 2004

<font color="blue"> The neighbor's I got the piano from are also giving me a upright freezer & frig/freezer.. of course those are in the basement too!
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Sounds like another photo-op to me /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif.