We made a very quick trip to Kamloops with a U-Haul trailer to pick up the motorcycle and other stuff and of course, it was another exciting event. We arrived at the locker at 3 p.m. and worked until 6 p.m. transferring our stuff from the 5’ x 10’ locker to the 5’ x 8’ trailer.
First, we backed out the bike and unloaded most of the locker, putting things on the ground around the locker. We measured the table saw and discovered that we had to take the legs and base off in order to fit it in the trailer with the bike. It was heavy to move but we did get it in place.
Loading the bike was a big challenge. The yard at the storage site is flat so we had to run the bike up a ramp into the trailer. The boards we put down weren't strong enough and broke in half as we got the bike part way up. Fortunately, they broke before we got too far up and nothing was damaged.
We doubled up the two broken pieces and that worked okay except we kept getting the bottom of the oil pan caught on the boards. We had to build up the ramp at the lower end with various small boards to change the angle of ascent and chalked the back wheel each time we inched the bike forward. We got most of the bike on the trailer and then the ramp boards collapsed. Yikes!! We had to use brute force to push it the rest of the way in. It was scary as the back tire was hanging off the end of the trailer and I was at the back end trying to push it on. We got it done--thanks to God for helping us out.
We filled up the trailer, the bed of the truck and the back seat of the truck and spent the night in Kamloops. We headed out early the next day and were back in Grand Forks by noon.
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The unloading at this end was easy and we were able to back the trailer up to a high piece of ground at the RV Park and unload it with no fuss or fear. We unloaded the rest of the stuff into a storage locker here in town and we’re all done with moving things this week. Time to rest the muscles until next week when we start the big move.
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