A Moving Experience

This weekend we moved our piano to Jacksonville to K&T’s house so S&L can have a piano to learn on.

The whole move went nicely.  I also made use of my electric winch, that I bought probably 3 years ago, to pull the piano out of our house, up the ramp to the trailer.

The key to moving the piano was renting a piano dolly.  The dolly is a 2-piece unit that slides under each end of the piano and then is held in place with ratcheted hold-down straps.  The piano is lifted by simply stepping on a lever that raises the wheels on the dolly.  Both pieces of the dolly have fold-out handles to use to lift and push the piano.  With the dolly Penny and I could easily push the piano on the carpet to the ramp I made out of 3/4 inch plywood.  I attached the winch and it hauled it up the ramp with Penny guiding the piano safely on the ramp.

I covered the piano with a 70-inch grill cover that we bought on one of our trips to Target over a year ago.  It provided protection against rain.

The drive to Jacksonville went well.  We ran into some spritsy rain and rush hour traffic in Jacksonville.  The drive wore me out because I drove at a slower speed than usual and I was more nervous and alert on the whole drive because of the heavy load and the extra caution required driving with the trailer. This is what the trailer looked like for the drive.

Unloading the piano in Jacksonville went smoothly also.  This picture Karen posted shows the satisfaction we got from moving the piano.

We also picked up a piece of furniture for Karen while we were in Jacksonville.  That was an adventure in itself because the furniture was located more than an hours drive way out in the boondocks south of Jacksonville.

C&C also came up to Jacksonville on Saturday so once again the whole family was together.

Saturday morning Sophie and Lucy visited us in our room.  I couldn’t help but grab my camera when I saw them together watching TV.

It was a good weekend.  Everything went well-including our drive home.  We ate dinner at a Waffle House and it had a particularly friendly and happy staff.  Now that I am home I’m once again feeling a little weary from the drive so I ‘m going to relax and go to bed early tonight.