When I ordered the sawmill, I did so early in the season, expecting it could arrive at any time, even months from now. But it did say it would leave the warehouse within a week, and I guess if there is nothing else they are good at, it is keeping their IT and inventory up to date. Woodland Mills deposited the mill with RL Carriers, then waited like four days till they e-mailed me to tell me they had. I got the e-mail on Saturday, and thought it would mean it was going to be a day or two till it was picked up and put in transit. The e-mail even said so. But I decided to run the tracking number anyway, and it had already been moving four like four days! Given the track record of this particular carrier, I figured it would arrive mid-week this week. But they did not use a last mile carrier, and as you can tell from the title of this post, the mill is here.
The mill is here, and there is nothing I can do with it, but cover the box with a tarp and wait till the ground dries up, and I can get some wood to mill and start collecting what I need to build it a covering.
The load was meant to be 1,295 pounds. I took that off the truck with my little Kioti tractor. The tractor had a hard time lifting at that height. But it did get the couple of inches needed to move the huge box off the truck. I say huge. It is not as big as a mausoleum or anything like that, but I could fit a coffin in a vault and put them inside, I’m sure. I was not impressed with the driver when he got between the box and his truck where I could tip forward and smash him. I’d really of liked him not to do that! I remember granddad moaning about the people he worked with when he was on cranes, and how they would constantly endanger themselves. Like him, I just want to be able to sleep at night.
So now the mill is sitting, waiting with all its parts, for a better day to put it together! There is snow and mud all over this farm, and no place to set that old thing up.
So, the mill arrived ten days after ordering it. I’m sure it is going to take a lot longer to set it up!