| Re: Sunday morning 9-25-2016 |
Subject: Re: Sunday morning 9-25-2016 by teebee on 2016/9/25 18:24:49 We got up early yesterday (4am) to leave for western Iowa to pick up my new CNC router. Driving time was 7 hours, an extra hour for several stops. We spent a couple hours learning about the machine and getting it unhooked and ready for loading on the trailer. Shortly after we got there, it started raining.....HARD. Once disconnected we started tarpping it. One over the table, then, plastic bags over each of the motors, and a second tarp over the entire machine. Luckily he had a skidsteer with long forks and we picked it up, during a break in the rain, and put it on the trailer. Then I backed the trailer into the shop and we put a third tarp on. It was a good thing I did, as the sky opened up again. I used about 40 bungy cords to hold the three tarps on. Once we got it on, tarped, and tied down, we waited for the rain to let up and after 15 minutes, it showed no sign, so we took off. It rained hard for the first hour on the road, but the tarps stayed on and covering the machine. After an hour, the sky started to clear and the rain stopped. So I stopped and checked things out. I noticed that I lost three or four bungies and the top tarp was torn. I re-secured things and made it on in to #3 house. This morning, I went to Harbor Freight and bought another tarp and a few more straps to cover it again, and hopefully, will be able to get home tomorrow without any issues. |
