Sunday, July 28, 2013

Sawzall Moving Adventure

I mentioned my house guest yesterday, that went just fine.  At 7 AM we picked up her daughter and then came back to my house.  I returned to my bed and slept a bit more and they went down and slept in the boys room.  It was fine.  I woke up to an incoming text message from President Whetman in regards to a move in.  It was a general invitation to come and help.  This was the third move in 16 hours for the Elders Quorum.  I did not make it to the first two because of house guests but when I saw the third notification come through I was determined to make it over to this move and lend a hand.  There was a good group there and the work went well.  All made it in save on piece of furniture.  It was a large chair that had the foot rest attached.  It was like a big comfy lounge chair - don't know if that makes sense but whatever.  It just couldn't make it through the door and down the stairs to the basement apartment.  The owner of the furniture suggested we cut it with a sawzall.  Upon hearing this I volunteered to run home and pick up my sawzall for the job.  I found the entire thing amusing and recommended that we catch it on video and then build a video all about moving with the Elders Quorum.  Figured we could load it with moving bloopers and a fair warning about the dangers of Elder Quorum Moves.  I think it could be great and thought about an old school 32" TV in my basement that is broken.  It would be the perfect TV to stage a furniture mishap with.  So anyway, after some discussion and some figuring we determined the best location to cut and I fired away.  It worked perfect.  The unit was still all one piece.  I did not cut all the way through the ottoman or the cushion, just cut through the wood that ran the length of the chair around the middle where the ottoman and chair came together.  The spring seat frame was all one piece and we did not cut through that.  With the cuts we had just enough flexibility to make the turn.  Truly it was a beautiful thing.  I suggested to President Whetman at the conclusion of the move that he should assign someone to bring a sawzall to every move. 

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