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| A rigging crew from
Richmond Virginia was hired to
palletize the machines and
boxes and load a dedicated
tractor/trailer rig for
transport to the bay area.
On Friday, a crew of 5 riggers
spent 12 hours getting
everything ready to load the
following Monday. |
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| Because of the intense
heat, as much of the staging
of machines and palletizing
was done in the confines of
the air conditioned main shop
section. |
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| This is the Format-4 Dual
51 palletized and ready to
load. |
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| Small but heavy machinery
items were bolted to pallets. |
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| This was the hottest day
in 5 years - measuring 107
degrees. The wine
collection which I boxed and
palletized myself was moved to
the shop to keep cool before
loading on the refrigerated
trailer rig. This photo
shows three of the 8 pallets
of wine. |
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| Pallet staging went on for
a solid 12 hours manned by two
riggers, while the other three
riggers did machinery teardown
and preparation. |
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| Two 53 foot trailers were
hired to drive the shop and
wine collection from Virginia
to San Francisco. The
shop trailer is on the left,
and the refrigerated trailer
for the wine was on the right.
Luckily they both showed up on
the same day - as scheduled. |
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| This is how much of the
shop ended up packaged for
loading onto the trailer. |
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| The large doors to the
shop gave easy access by
forklift. |
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| I personally built crates
for several of the machines.
Although I hated doing it, I
ended up using 3/4" Cherry
veneer plywood for many of the
crates since it's what I had
laying around from previous
projects. |
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| After palletizing, the
riggers would pull shrink wrap
around the pallets. |
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| The loading (day 2)
involved the use of two
forklifts - one to move the
pallet to the flatbed trailer
used as a loading platform,
and a second forklift on the
flatbed that maneuvered the
pallets into position in the
trailer. |
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| This photo illustrates the
pallet loading process. |
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| The shop did not fit on
the 53 foot trailer.
Extra room was found on the
refrigerated trailer -
intended originally for just
the wine - to hold the shop
overflow. |
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| Some of the pallets were
huge and weighed over 4000
pounds. 107 degrees and
95 percent RH. Whew! |
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| Shop rig loaded and ready
for transport. Delivery
ONE week later was on time,
went without a hitch, and
required only 2 guys and a
single forklift. |
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