65 Chevy 3/4 ton truck with one man piano loader for sale, cheap.

[gordon stelter]

No photos today. But I got the idea from a  picture in
Harvey Roehl's "Player Piano Treasury".
Basically, I removed the old "fleet" style bed and put
a new metal platform over the cross braces, between
the wheel wells. Onto this is welded 2, 2" wide by 1"
high channels to form tracks from the front of the bed
to the rear.
 Next, a metal platform on 4 big casters which holds
the platform above the wheel wells is placed on the
tracks, and an electric winch up towards the cab.
    The platform rolls out the tracks until the
rearmost casters hit metal stops. At this point a
couple of feet of platform are hanging out over the
rear bumper. Letting out more cable allows the
platform to go verticle, and a couple of pieces of big
angle protruding at the bottom go under the piano. 
Then a strap is put under the keybed and attached to
the platform sides. Press a button and the whole
affair is sucked onto the truck and snugged against a 
stop toweards the cab. The piano rides on its back and
can be seen over in the rear-view mirror. I moved
about 40 pianos with this, alone 
( provided someone got them to the truck with me! )
Great for snagging "porch pianos" on the fly. 
    Thump


--- Jim Kinnear <jim@pianoguy.com> wrote:

> can you send a picture of the loading apparatus ??
> Jim Kinnear
> www.pianoguy.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 12:35 PM
> Subject: 65 Chevy 3/4 ton truck with one man piano
> loader for sale, cheap.
> 
> 
> > List,
> >     I put about $3,500 into the mechanicals on
> this
> > thing less than 3,000 miles ago. Then the
> transmission
> > disintigrated, and it sat for 4 months before I
> > started it again. Now it runs roughly
> > ( bad gas? stuck float in carb? )
> > I found another tranny for $100 but have decided
> to
> > let the truck go because I have 3 others and don't
> > move many pianos anymore. $1,500, obo. Atlanta
> area.
> > Has:
> >      Rebuilt NAPA engine, bored to about 300CI.
> L-6
> > New: Heater motor and core, wiper motor, steering
> > column, steering box,  radiator, all new front end
> > everything ( ZERO slop in steering! ) exhaust
> system,
> > alternator, electric winch., etc.. A good project
> for
> > someone who wants a  picturesque vehicle that can
> load
> > pianos ( uprights ) solo. Detacheable rack for
> grands.
> >      $1,500 obo.
> >      G Stelter
> >      (770) 725-5949 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > David Love wrote:
> > > 
> > > >The cork line was a joke referring to the wine
> > > analogy, not meant to be
> > > >taken literally or personally.  There is
> applicable
> > > science to this area
> > > >which ought to be employed whenever possible. 
> The
> > > variables that effect
> > > >people's preference for new or old cannot
> easily be
> > > isolated, and that
> > > >includes a psychological factor.  
> > > >
> > > >  
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I took it as a joke, but also saw the moment of
> > > levity in it as well. 
> > > I'm all for using whatever tools, including any
> > > applicable science, in 
> > > aiding one to build-design-whatever a piano, but
> not
> > > at the expense of 
> > > allowing  the musical ear to determine for
> itself
> > > what it likes or 
> > > doesnt.  To much of our industry today already
> seems
> > > willing to accept 
> > > that if <<the machine>> says its no good... then
> its
> > > no good. This 
> > > whether the case be tuning, scale design,
> soundboard
> > > construction 
> > > approach, action functions, whathaveyou. 
> Granted
> > > tho.. psychology comes 
> > > into it quite a bit... some times uncomfortably
> so.
> > > For that matter 
> > > marketing, myths, magic and mystism... and I can
> go
> > > a long way down that 
> > > road many take in raising a skeptical eyebrow
> > > towards all that.  But 
> > > that said, one needs to be, IMHO, just as on
> guard
> > > against the same kind 
> > > of thing in reverse.  I have heard some pretty
> > > fantastic claims made in 
> > > the name of science in my time here. 
> > > 
> > > Anyways... as long as we strive to keep seperate
> the
> > > realm of the 
> > > subjective from that world which is made up of
> facts
> > > and figures, and do 
> > > not try to justify one or another standpoint by
> > > inapproapriately mixing 
> > > these particular P's and Q's... we leave the
> field
> > > open for all tastes, 
> > > and clear for understandable explanations of why
> > > each of us do what we 
> > > do without danger of these coming in conflict
> with
> > > one another.
> > > 
> > > What can I say... different strokes... not
> better or
> > > worse  just 
> > > different. The only better or worse bit comes in
> > > when you dont 
> > > accomplish what you set out to do in the first
> > > place.
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > RicB
> > > 
> > > 
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