Piano Moving
ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen
from first story to first story, no obstacles, three miles apart. I'm doing
the wrong damned thing for a living!
Wintergreen, who will move his own damned piano!
Rich Pierro/A-Sharp
Most companies around here get 150 min to move anything(NJ). Not uncommon,
especially if they're any good. If you do it yourself, make sure you get the
right equipment (like a dolly) and use your brains more than your back if you
can.
Rich Pierro
A-Sharp Piano Rebuilding
http://www.pianorebuilder.com
Frank Weston
business. I would charge that much just to move a piano from room to room
in the same house. Figure it this way:
Two men, drive about 40 minutes round trip and spend 20 minutes actually
moving the piano = 2 man hours at a loaded cost of $35 per hour = $70.
Loaded means unemployment compensation, injured workers fund, income tax
state and federal, etc, etc. etc.
20 miles on the truck. It costs about 30 cents a mile to just run, and
about a dollar a mile if you figure all costs = $20
Insurance prorated per move. $20
Advertising prorated per move. $12.50
Telephone and computer connections prorated per move. $5
Someone to answer the phone and do the paper work = $15
Total = $142.50, which leaves the poor owner with $7.50 worth of profit.
You're doing us a favor by moving your own piano. Enjoy, and let us know
how your back feels next day and how much it costs to repair the damage to
piano and walls.
Frank Weston
ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen wrote in message
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Tim
right for a quick one. It cost me $500 to move one for 30 miles. Well,
the stairway was very tricky.
Dwain Lee
$150.00 is a good price. You'll need the right truck, the right ramps, the
right tiedowns, and a good, strong friend or two who you'll owe big-time
afterward. You'll need a good wheelbarrow, some topsoil, some grass seed,
mulch and fertilizer to repair the ruts that you put in your front yard
because it rained the night before the move. A new threshold at your front
door, which will get severely gouged or ripped off, as well as a
carpet-to-vinyl floor transition trim or two. Also, a can of spackling to
repair the walls you'll damage, a floor sander for the floors you'll gouge
(or sewing supplies to repair the carpet you snag & run), miscellaneous
paints and/or stains, and of course, the medical care. Does your health
insurance cover chiropractic?
Dwain
(who's only half joking)
ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen <odrif...@removethistomail.yahoo.com> wrote in
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jasons
travel time to and from the job. You've got a two or three man crew who have
to move a great deal of weight. They also are responsible for damage, so
most are insured and that cost needs to be passed on. By the way, don't
hit any potholes and make sure that you use a truck with a suspended body,
not a pick-up.
"ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen" <odrif...@removethistomail.yahoo.com> wrote in
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ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen
>
> ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen
> I can't stand it any longer so I just have to ask , .......What does
> P.F.C. stand for?
Private First Class. ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen is a character from Joseph
Heller's book, Catch-22, published in 1961 (it took him eight years to write
it). It's a literary masterpiece. The original title, incidentally, was
Catch-18.
> Also I support your Napster views and I reckon that a lot of people will
> choke on their halo's.
> Also ,,,,,,,and don't answer if you don't want to ,,,but,,,,,,
.......What
> other names have you used here ?????
I was in here previously under Eddie S, which I will be going back to. I
switched to the Wintergreen title when I saw a certain someone in here
posting messages that were way too verbose for my liking. In Catch-22,
Wintergreen has a pet peeve concerning such correspondence, and refers to
them as being too "prolix". When I saw the posts, I immediately was
reminded of ex.-P.F.C. Wintergreen. In the book, he was also ex-Corporal
Wintergreen, but was busted down to private.
And we thank you for your support! :)
ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen
Rich Pierro/A-Sharp
especially me.
Christopher Quinn
"Gary" wrote:
>
> ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen
> I can't stand it any longer so I just have to ask , .......What does
> P.F.C. stand for?
> Also I support your Napster views and I reckon that a lot of people will
> choke on their halo's.
> Also ,,,,,,,and don't answer if you don't want to ,,,but,,,,,,
.......What
> other names have you used here ?????
> A fan of yours.
> Gary.
>
Private First Class. A hillarious character from Heller's Catch-22,
"ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen". He was demoted from PFC to Buck Private, but
preferred to be addressed in a manner which invoked his former "glory."
--
Christopher James Quinn
Brooklyn, Earth.
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"I was once a Chopinist, then a Wagnerist, now I am only a Scriabinist."
- Alexander Scriabin to a young Arthur Rubinstein
Gary
Rich Pierro/A-Sharp
Good Answer Frank.
Jamrmom
$150 to move a piano, even if they get the instrument for free. $150 does NOT
buy enough chiropractic work to compensate for saving $$ on the piano move.
To all you professional piano movers out there, THANK YOU! I have seen your
work enough to know that some jobs should be done by pros. You understand the
physics of moving those ungainly instruments, getting around corners, going up
stairs, etc. Not to mention the scratches you avoid...
ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen
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I ended up letting regular movers do it. No scratches, and the piano is
just fine. It was a straight shot out of one front door to the other. I
heard these guys had moved pianos for years. Besides, it was just a console
that wasn't heavy to these bruts. They didn't charge an extra dime, either,
when I asked them to add it to the move. Maybe it was a bad idea, but it
worked.
Washington Irving