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After a week of looking things over and thinking about a variety of ways to put the wheels on the table and remove it from the pallet, we came up with a process.\u00a0 Without a forklift, we are a bit inhibited, as we can’t just raise the whole table at once, add the wheels, and set it down away from the pallet.\u00a0 Instead, we’re going to have to remove it from the pallet manually.<\/p>\n
The method we settled on is to jack each end of the table up, in turn, and add the wheels.\u00a0 After adding the first set on one end, we will place a 2×4 behind the wheels there to prevent it from moving prematurely.\u00a0 Then we will do the same thing on the other end.\u00a0 Once the table is on wheels, we will place a tow rope around the heavy end (with the other end connected to our small Kubota tractor) and put a ramp on the light end.\u00a0 We will ease the table onto the ramp, keeping the tow rope taught to ease the table down the ramp.\u00a0 This will, hopefully, prevent a runaway table as it moves down the ramp. To prevent the table from going off one of the sides of the pallet, we will nail an 8 foot 2×4 to each side so that the wheels will stay tracked.<\/p>\n
There are a few problems with this method, but we figured out how to solve each of them, at least hopefully.<\/p>\n
The photos show the two pieces we built to accomplish the process.\u00a0 Now, we just have to make it work, which we will attempt the first of the week.\u00a0 We’ll report back on that in part two of this post.<\/p>\n
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