Re: Shipping bulk hardware via freight

[Carlos Alcantar <carlos () race com>]

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Carlos Alcantar
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On 11/6/14, 7:43 PM, "Larry Sheldon" <larrysheldon () cox net> wrote:

> On 11/6/2014 12:07, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> > On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 23:11:23 -0500, William Herrin said:
> >
> > > Ah yes, I recall watching them decommission the old Control Data Cyber
> > > 990
> > > back at Georgia Tech. The mover slipped trying to get it on the
> > > liftgate
> > > and the whole cabinet dropped about a foot to the ground with a nice
> > > solid
> > > thud.
> >
> > I know of a case where somebody managed to drop an IBM Shark storage
> > array off a forklift.
> >
> > Amazingly enough, it still kinda sorta worked after that....
>
> I no longer can recall the name of the company (his trucks were United
> Fan Lines colors but he had split off or something and had a license to
> use the colors)--all he (and crew) did was big computers.
>
> In the years I dealt with him the highlights were a) the time he and
> crew loaded a 1783 Drum (Several thousand pounds, I think, and
> top-heavy) into a truck parked against the curb or a street that has a
> moderately radical slope.  Rolling it off the lift gate they lost it and
> it slammed against the down-hill wall pretty sternly.  The truck tilted
> a bit into the street light pole which made the pole whip, flinging the
> glass cover down on the truck.  Activity eventually stopped with the
> truck leaning (and immobilized) against the pole.  I don't remember the
> resolution.
>
>
> b) the time they Johnson-barred an 1110 CPU into an open hole in the
> raised floor.  Seems like the ripped out a lot of floor before deciding
> the strategy was not working.  Seems like the used several Rol-a-lifts,
> a lot of canvas strapping and Johnson Bar handles recovering it.
>
>
>
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>
> The fact that they are infallible; and,
>
> The fact that they learn from their mistakes.
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