Finally! Although it seems like it's been a long time, the house material has arrived - a little earlier than we first anticipated. We had called Bob this morning to get a time when we should come up to see the truck unloaded and help with counting the pieces to ensure we received everything we were supposed to. He surprised us by saying that it would be at his yard within the hour! We are having the house materials delivered to Bob's yard so he can keep them locked up and just move the stuff he needs up to the house each day. Easy for him and safer for us.
We hustled and got the shop ready to open and shortly after Loni arrived, we took off for the Granberg Log Homes yard in Barnhartvale. By the time we arrived, the truck had beaten us by a few minutes and already removed the straps securing the tarps protecting the windows, wood and other materials. The truck was hauling two good-sized trailers of goodies for us. It was an odd feeling, knowing that the stuff he was delivering would soon be converted into our new house. On closer inspection, we noticed that every package and pallet had our names clearly marked on it.
Bob had fired up his enormous crane (he has ALL the toys you could think of!) in preparation for off-loading the trailers. He also had a very nice Bobcat with four-wheel steering and a variety of attachments including, of course, a pair of lifting forks.
As it turned out, all the pallets but one were able to be unloaded using the Bobcat. The final pallet was unloaded with the crane. The whole process start-to-finish took less than two and a half hours. Pretty amazing!
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| The last load had to be unloaded with the crane |
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