Garden Bench

Normally we would build sturdy wood framed crates for these benches and haul them to White Pine and the Old Dominion Truck line dock located there for delivery to their new owners.  But in this case we're taking a different route.  This is partly due to the fact that our deadline cut pushed up and we lost a week of production time.  Building three crates would take me two days.  O.D.F.L. will take another two days to get them to Vermont.  But my friend and former shop assistant (and a retired truck driver) Offered to help shave a few days off the agenda by delivering them for me.

So we begin preparations by mummifying the benches in cellophane wrap.  The Outdoor Oil will protect the benches from rain, but I want to add some extra protection against road grunge in case Tim has to drive through any wet weather.

Then we load the three benches onto Tim's trailer, with padding and packing affixed to points where anything will rub against anything else, and strap them down tight.

Tim and his wife will take a direct route to the delivery point, getting there in one day's time.  By not having to build crates we saved another two days, shaving three days off the estimated arrival date.  That should get them there one day ahead of the deadline.

Normally hiring a private hauler for a long fast run like this would be outrageously expensive, but the timing of things has worked out well for everyone in this case.  Tim used to drive semi-s all over the northeast part of the country, knows it well, and has been missing some of the sights up there.  His wife has never seen any of it, being a Tennessee girl all her life, and he's been wishing they could take a vacation and go out that way so he can see it all one last time and Kat can see it for the first time.  Tim offered to make the delivery for the same fee I'd have had to pay Old Dominion (half or less of what he would normally charge) because it would help them to accomplish their goal as well.

So, all I can say is, "Keep the rubber side down, the shiny side up, and keep on truckin'!"

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