Hey, a true idiot would have fired it up and driven it up the stairs.
That's what those carbide cleats are for - traction!
However, hauling something like that into a basement might have resulted
in a Darwin Award when the furnace or hot water tank kicked in and
ignited the fumes from the fuel tank.
Best to leave the gasoline outside!
Don't know how fast I could find the clipping but a fellow in Winnipeg
blew up his home this past year and I believe he was using gasoline to
strip the glue off the basement floor after removing some tile.
He survived (if my memory is correct) but was pretty badly hurt.
RB
On 11/01/2015 7:52 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
Reminds me of the time I thought one of our snowmobiles had a seized
engine.
We had a set of stairs leading from the side yard down into the heated
basement, just big enough to get the snowmobile down the single flight.
Garage was not heated, I thought I needed to rebuild or replace the engine,
so we moved it down into the basement, which wasn't too hard with gravity
helping.
As soon as it was in, I started taking it apart and quickly found ice had
frozen in place the ring gear for the electric start.
Duh!
Let the ice melt, engine started fine, called neighbors (big farm boys)
because we needed some real muscle to get that sled back out of the
basement...
Max Dillon,
Charleston SC
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