10.16.22 Sunday (continued)

This summer, we had a heavy pallet with a back-up generator and some other items delivered to the side of the tracks by the tundra truck. It was actually not scheduled to be delivered until winter, because of the weight, but there was a mixup.  The pallet weighed about 600 lbs.  Kevin was gone working so it sat by the side of the tracks all summer...

When Kevin got home last week, we decided it was too muddy to try to drag it up from the tracks.  Then we had a sunny day and he got a wild hair to NOT wait until the snow flew but still use a freight sled.  Just attach it to the four-wheeler instead of the back of a snow machine he said....So using nut/bolts, bungee cords, whatever worked, we got the freight sled hooked to the four-wheeler, got it wiggled over onto the freight sled with a rock bar, and he was off up the hill!

I was watching from the tracks, and noticed when he got to the very top of the trail, he stood up.  He told me later that the generator was so heavy that the front of the four-wheeler started coming up and tried to do a back-flip with him on it.  He was able to keep the weight down and pulled it into the drive-through part of the shop.

Then the question was, "how do we get it INTO the shop?"  We don't have a forklift or a bunch of big, burly neighbors around!  So again, deciding to work smarter versus harder, he came up with a plan...

He took a spruce pole and placed it across two beams in the shop, took a winch, hooked it to the generator, and we winched and pried with the rock bar until it was level with the shop floor and he could man-handle it in.

I am so blessed to be married to a man that just doesn't have any "quit" in him.  One way or the other, he makes it happen and I am so proud of him.  Not to mention that we now have a backup to the backup generator in case something goes wrong!

To be continued one more time...