Wow, now there's a much more economical solution than I offered. I'll keep this in mind should I have such a project and need help moving loads of wood etc.
On Aug 12, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Barry Levine wrote: > > Stack a few bags of cement on the sidewalk just before the stairs > begin > to ascend, sit down on top of them, and start crying. Somebody's bound > to come along and offer to help. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Rossi > Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:47 AM > To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com > Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Color me pink. > > Yeah, I've thought about hiring a crew, but am not really sure where > to > look for "guys willing to bust there asses for a few bucks." My > friends > > in other cities say they can just go to the local bigbox store and > there > > are guys standing around the parking lot, you wave some cash at them, > tell them what you need, and take them or they follow you and the job > gets > done. > > I have not come across that here in Pittsburgh though. You can usually > bribe friends with pizza and beer into helping you move, but somehow > it > doesn't work as well when moving bags of cement. > > The word from Lowes is that their delivery people won't do it. They > will > drop it off at the bottom of the steps but that's as far as they will > go. > I assume that I might be able to bribe them with $20 bills once they > were > their, but haven't tried it. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > ------------------------------------ > > Send any questions regarding list management to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=vi > ew_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 > Or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From > Various List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ > > If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the > following > address for more information: > http://www.jaws-users.com/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy > Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Groups Links > > > Scott Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
