Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 5:24 pm
More about last week:
Wednesday, we went out to the land with my E12 Electrack in Prakash's truck, and about half my solar panels and a big load of Prakash's tools in mine. We spent a few hours cleaning the rain gutters, organizing the wood we left on the ground last trip, and securing the garage and house, replacing the locks on the garage door and making the roll up door lock for the first time ever.
Prakash left about 5 PM, and I stayed almost until dark, as I had to get the EV Pusher hitched up to my pickup and ready to tow back to the city to be used on the Housetruck when I move it over.
For the last two days, we have been emptying my shop, putting my tools and materials into the bus. To economize time, I moved the bus up to the front door of the shop, backing it up the driveway and putting the rear bumper nearly against the deck:
No, the camera isn't being held at some crazy, artful angle, the bus really is parked on an incline that is this steep. The amazing thing is that I didn't have any problems backing it up into this position. I didn't spin the wheels, fry the clutch or even have to touch the accelerator. The bus simply backed up (with some effort) as though it was no big deal.
We put a ramp from the front door steps of the shop and now have a level runway to carry things into the bus:
The shop is nearly empty, the bus is absorbing the contents of the shop with a lot of floor space left over. We're not even stacking the stuff we put in, simply covering the floor with a single layer.
Working inside the bus with it all tilted and inclined is messing with my balance. even sitting here in the Housetruck, I feel off-balance and as if the desk is off-level. Putting my feet up on the desk gives me a mild form of vertigo and I feel like I'm back in the bus with a fun-house anti-gravity weirdness that's hard to shake.
Tomorrow, I pick up a rental moving van that the radio station is loaning me for two days to move my big tools (table saws, band saw, large shelving units, etc). It had to be back at the rental place by 5 PM Monday, so we'll load tomorrow and make a trip out early Monday. It would be good to have a few hours to load the dumpsters and perhaps do some vacuuming and mopping, might be that we can soon go into the house without dust respirators to keep the pet dander and dust bunnies out of our lungs.
Wednesday, we went out to the land with my E12 Electrack in Prakash's truck, and about half my solar panels and a big load of Prakash's tools in mine. We spent a few hours cleaning the rain gutters, organizing the wood we left on the ground last trip, and securing the garage and house, replacing the locks on the garage door and making the roll up door lock for the first time ever.
Prakash left about 5 PM, and I stayed almost until dark, as I had to get the EV Pusher hitched up to my pickup and ready to tow back to the city to be used on the Housetruck when I move it over.
For the last two days, we have been emptying my shop, putting my tools and materials into the bus. To economize time, I moved the bus up to the front door of the shop, backing it up the driveway and putting the rear bumper nearly against the deck:
No, the camera isn't being held at some crazy, artful angle, the bus really is parked on an incline that is this steep. The amazing thing is that I didn't have any problems backing it up into this position. I didn't spin the wheels, fry the clutch or even have to touch the accelerator. The bus simply backed up (with some effort) as though it was no big deal.
We put a ramp from the front door steps of the shop and now have a level runway to carry things into the bus:
The shop is nearly empty, the bus is absorbing the contents of the shop with a lot of floor space left over. We're not even stacking the stuff we put in, simply covering the floor with a single layer.
Working inside the bus with it all tilted and inclined is messing with my balance. even sitting here in the Housetruck, I feel off-balance and as if the desk is off-level. Putting my feet up on the desk gives me a mild form of vertigo and I feel like I'm back in the bus with a fun-house anti-gravity weirdness that's hard to shake.
Tomorrow, I pick up a rental moving van that the radio station is loaning me for two days to move my big tools (table saws, band saw, large shelving units, etc). It had to be back at the rental place by 5 PM Monday, so we'll load tomorrow and make a trip out early Monday. It would be good to have a few hours to load the dumpsters and perhaps do some vacuuming and mopping, might be that we can soon go into the house without dust respirators to keep the pet dander and dust bunnies out of our lungs.