We spent all day removing a large 32" Littlejohn press down a set of stairs at TyneMet College in Newcastle. We had to reassemble and deliver it to a different site where we discovered missing parts and sheared bolts, the press couldn't be reassembled without surgery. It was delivered where we were assured there were double doors. The press was 32" wide at the feet and widest point. The double doors were in fact single and only 30" wide. It always happens to us! People make assurances that the access is easy and flat then forget narrow doors and stairs! Where possible we do a recce mission but time and money do not always allow. Sods law we call it.
Anyway that achieved we delivered a table saw (up a set of steps) to Chris Daunt, engraver and supplier of wood engravers' blocks.
The following day we went to Yorkshire to pick up a Vandercook and deliver it to Jo Phillips who is just starting out his small letterpress shop. Jo has moved into an old mill building and hurrah first floor but a massive old goods lift (elevator) with a nice maximum weight of 20 hundred weight. Excellent!
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