Re: Question that has us baffled
OK - if you don't have a forklift - which we didn't have access to for quite
a few years - have the guys lift the pumpkin up into the bed of the truck.
My husband would dig holes for the tires of the truck - to lower the end of
the truck, so it wouldn't be so high to lift. OR we have rented a u-haul flat
trailer - they are much shorter than a pickup truck. At any rate, once you
have it in the truck/trailer - that's where the pallet is, and everyone just
lifts one more time and gets the pumpkin on top of the pallet. The biggest
one we lifted like this was over 800 pounds. When we got a couple of 1000
pounders we gave up and asked a landscape company - just down the road from us,
if they would come and load the pumpkins for us. That was a TREMENDOUS help!
Don't forget to have someone with a camera - that's always worth getting a
few pictures of!
Good luck,
Linda
In a message dated 8/1/2006 5:10:09 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
fishrap@earthlink.net writes:
Chriss,
Way I do it is -
Hold a harvest party.
Buy approx. one case of something cold to drink.
Invite 16-20 of the youngest best-looking guys you know.
Take pictures of everyone with the pumpkin to be harvested.
Hand-select four guys to tip the pumpkin up on one side.
Slide a tarp, folded in half, beneath the fruit.
Then roll or otherwise wrestle the fruit back up on its other side and
unfold the tarp.
Everybody rests and drinks a drink.
Then you have the guys each take a handle of the tarp. Everyone ready?
At the count of three, everyone lifts at once.
When they do, an elderly lady gets underneath and shoves a pallet beneath
the pumpkin-on-the-tarp.
What, no elderly ladies! YOU may have to do it then. Be sure to scramble out
from underneath before the guys collapse in exhaustion.
If you followed these instructions carefully, you now have a kind of layer
cake: pumpkin on top of a tarp on top of a pallet.
Here's where the forklift takes over and eases the layers into the bed of
the waiting truck. It's a piece a cake, really.
Kathie
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>From: "Chriss" <chriss@columbus.rr.com>
>To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
>Subject: Question that has us baffled
>Date: Tue, Aug 1, 2006, 1:00 PM
>
> If and when it's time to move the pumpkin to a weigh off or the county
fair,
> how do I get it there?
> Chriss
> Chriss@Columubs.rr.com
>
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