[175904] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Shipping bulk hardware via freight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Fri Nov 7 14:32:21 2014
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From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
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Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 14:32:07 -0500
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Holy crap. I've actually used Death Wish. Small world.
They were awesome.
Of course, I moved something far less interesting - a piano. But I =
called them on a Tuesday and said "I need a piano moved by 1 PM =
tomorrow". They did it, no fuss, no muss, very professional, and =
reasonably priced.
Highly recommended.
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TTFN,
patrick
On Nov 07, 2014, at 14:09 , Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
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> I remember when we got our SGI Challenge XL delivered. It was around
> 1200lbs and the trucker refused to do an inside delivery even though
> we'd specified that, we were on the second floor (up one flight of
> stairs tho a few more to get to the stairs.) Their excuse was that we
> didn't have a proper way to do that. That is, there were three steps
> before the elevator and whatever else they think of not to do it.
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> So rather than fuss with them and leaving the $500K system on the
> sidewalk outside I called:
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> Death Wish Movers
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> They're a company in Boston which specializes in moving big pianos and
> similar. The Travel Channel (I think it was) made a reality series
> about them briefly.
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> Four guys showed up and decided they didn't even want to use the
> elevator, too small or something.
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> They just hauled that thing up the stairs with your usual
> ONE...TWO...THREE...LIFT! ONE...TWO...THREE...LIFT!...
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> I forget the cost but it wasn't a lot, maybe $300?
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> Needless to say I recommend them.
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> http://www.deathwishpiano.com
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> -b
