Re: AIS: show - transport in trucks?
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- Subject: Re: AIS: show - transport in trucks?
- From: H* <H*@aol.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 19:53:07 -0600 (MDT)
In a message dated 98-04-14 19:21:54 EDT, you write:
<< My wee car (Geo Metro) won't take stalks to a show - has anybody
experimented with transporting stalks in a pickup truck? I don't have a
camper top or any such, but could possibly make a plywood box big enough
to hold a bucket or several buckets of stalks. Or would a great big
cardboard box (anchored with concrete blocks and tied down) work? >>
Boy, I'd rig me up one of those cradle/hammock arrangements with four
suspended linear supports from the corners of the sides of the bed--the
gunwales, or whatever you call them on a pickup truck- to absorb all jostling
like in those ghastly movies they used to make about desperate sweaty men
hauling illicit nitroglycerine or other unstable explosives.....anyway....
You must get them horizontal I think, and out of the wind for sure. All the
old books talk about mooching boxes from wholesale florists that flowers have
been shipped in and punching holes in the sides and lacing crosstrings to
support the flowers and placing them gently into same. Which boxes could be
stacked, lashed in and covered with a tarp for the trip. There are those who
gently form an Elizabethan ruff of tissue paper for the flowers, bringing it
high and sheltering around each bloom after securing it with a fine straight
pin somewhere where the hole won't show.
Anner Whitehead, Richmond,VA
Henry Hall Henryanner@aol.com
