So some of you may know, I made a deal with Duke for the Mothership II. I had made a deal with Landgraft for Mothership III. So now the task at hand was to ship Mothership II from Chicago to San Jose. I have had all kinds of advice on how to ship. The problem is that it is over 90 LBS. I didn't have a box, so I tried to build a crate...but that was a bit it was WAAAAAY to heavy. So by some miracle I found a couple of boxes at work I could graft together to make some kind of makeshift box. Sooooo after two months of trying to figure out how to ship, I found out a distant kind of relative works for Fed Ex, so we used his number and off it went. I checked the tracking and it is in San Jose waiting for Duke. I will say this, part of the deal was I had to keep the legs and triangle. So Duke agreed and he is going to source those on his own.
Here is Mothership II ready to disassemble
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Building the ill fated crate, as the boss watches closely
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Hopefully Duke will post on this thread next accepting the giant box in San Jose....
Oh on a side note I finally got all the parts and assembled a Weber fire pit that I acquired from G. It was just the top and bottom parts but now i got all the parts and it's back in action. I will be burning the crate int he fire pit. Pics to follow.....if anyone cares to see pics of the burning crate.....