I’ve had a lot of help on this forum and another in doing this project, so I thought that I should show you how it went! So here goes:
DW and I had for a long time wanted to put a cast-iron gazebo in our back yard, but has a lot of trouble finding one that we liked sufficiently well to spend the time and money to do the job. But, in 2011, I found something on the Internet that looked just fine. It’s cast in China (where else?), and imported by an antiques dealer a couple hours north of us (Connecticut). I called and talked with him, saying that if we could see one assembled, and it looked OK, we’d buy one.
So one day we saddled up the car and trailer and headed off: first to a display site where they had a number of cast-iron yard-pieces on display. And it looked fine! Hooray, step 1.
Then we drove another hour north to the place that they operate from: an enormous buiding, perhaps 10,000 sq ft, absolutely packed with large pieces of furniture, many stacked on top of others. I couldn’t see how they would get a sold piece out of the building, it was so tight.
Well, the gazebo wasn’t at this l;ocation either, but a half-hour across town. So we struck a deal on the price, and the owner sent us with a few Spainsh-speakers (I speak only a few words of Spanish) to load up the item.
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Getting the item
Now you might think, wrongly it turns out. that all the pieces would be in one place in their warehouse: 8 columns each in two pieces, 8 bases,. 8 capitals, 8 curved stringers that connect the tops of the columns, 7 benches, etc. No-pe, they are spread around in differnet piles in another hyuge warehouse that house pieces of A/C equipment, conveyors, and so on. I'm thinking to myself, yuck, I'm not going to end up with all the pieces for my gazebo, and even if I do, they won;t be all the same finish! So I'm watching and couting real carefully while they locate the parts and get them into my low-boy trailer from a commercial-height loading dock. Not so easy with crates weighing hundereds of pounds.
But finally I'm convinced that we have everything that we're supposed to have, tie it down, and head home. Then the real work starts.
Digging
I'm ready to add some pictures here: but how do I do it. When I try, BT blows up!
Bob
Good to know it's working normally.
bob
Have the pics on your computer-size them about 150 kb's (if that's the small ones)-400x600.
Hit the browse button in the reply page, load it, and it becomes a thumbnail.
Copy the url address off the thumb and hit the button to the right of the font color and background color on the top of the reply box.
stick that url in there and hit something....................maybe ok?
It'll now be in the reply you are making.
Best of luck.
Sorry...
...I thought it would be fun to post my project here, but without pictures, it makes no sense, AND I dont hae time to try to figure out this mess of loading photos. Too bad.
Bob
That is too bad Bob.......
So, what problem did you have-maybe these technical technicians can make it easier for the next guy.