<html> <body> Pete, <x-tab>        </x-tab>I agree completely! Especially about the last sentence!! Thanks for the post. all the best, Greg Newell At 11:13 AM 9/2/2007, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">All, I have had to do some "strange" moves before but nothing like this. I'd like to see how it goes. Good luck and take lots of pics. This sounds like a good topic for a national convention class or even local/state seminars. It would be great to have a class on the "toughest piano moves of the year" along with pictures and discussion of what worked, what did not work and why. Besides getting a piano to and from where is needs to be, I believe the priority should always be the safety of the movers, piano and surroundings and in that order   Pete Coleman -----Original Message----- From: Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:04 am Subject: Re: Hoisting pianos I think he means the technique by which one jacks a large object up at three or four points maybe four inches or so at a time and shoves a 4x4 timber in place after each jacking session.   I have used this method several times over the years to jack a 6,000 lb. sailboat up about three to four feet off the ground so that I could back a trailer under it and its cradle. Cradle is supported at four points. Jack one corner up four inches with a little hydraulic car jack (or really any jack you can get under there), shove a 4x4 under it, take jack out. Move on to next corner. Repeat. Repeat this procedure about 50+ times and you are there! I have done this completely unassisted.   However, I'm not sure how this method would work jacking something up to a second story! Hmmmmmm, don't think so. Maybe he was thinking of something else.........   Terry Farrell   ----- Original Message ----- > This is interesting. What do you mean by cribbing? I've not heard > that term before. I suppose I could continue to add height to a platform > being built underneath the piano as we go. Sounds like a lot of work > though.  <hr> <a href="http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/mailtour/aim/en-us/index.htm"> Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail</a> -- Unlimited storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection.</blockquote> <x-sigsep></x-sigsep> Greg Newell Greg's Piano Forté <a href="http://www.gregspianoforte.com/" eudora="autourl"> www.gregspianoforte.com </a>216-226-3791 (office) 216-470-8634 (mobile) 2003,04,05 & 06 winners of Angie's List Super Service Award </body> </html>