that's worth a saltine. keep thinking, you'll get there. of course, i'm not
sure i can travel and pay for lunch.

Derek.

-----Original Message-----
From: Deb Bledsoe [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 12:34 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Moving a House


On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Trelstad, Derek wrote:

> There is a house moving firm located outside Albany, New York. I was one
of
> many crew members who helped when this firm -- the name of which I cannot
> remember presently -- moved the Crocheron House four miles across Staten
> Island (from a location on Woodrow Road south of the Fresh Kills landfill
to
> Richmondtown Restoration). Much excitement when the driveshaft on the
large
> truck -- red Diamond REO, as I recall -- exploded under load. Small truck
> they had at hand couldn't get the 400 ton dwelling to budge. Police escort
> across Outerbridge to truck garage in New Jersey -- which just happened to
> have one piece of the right stock for the drive shaft available -- got the
> show on the road in a few hours.
>
> Free lunch to anyone who can tell me why the shaft broke.
>

ummmmmm.....

house was still on foundation?
crappy american made non-precision auto parts?
wheel chocks not removed before proceeding?
no sacrifice made to house-moving gods before proceeding?
very small car bomb placed on shaft by new jersey crime family that
   just happens to own truck garage?
a rag (wire cable, k-mart bag, etc) got wrapped around drive shaft
   unbalancing it causing failure?  (this one really works, for those
   of you interested in dirty tricks)

hmmm, lemme think about this some more....  ;)
drive shafts on my trucks always just dropped out at the universal
never had one explode   ;)

deb