For those who were wondering, Grace has not yet arrived…we’ve been having problems with getting her delivered. You see, she’s a big girl…her pallet measures 63″x64″, which means it doesn’t fit on a standard truck liftgate. And, it turns out, breaking down the pallet into boxes wouldn’t help, as the individual pieces are still too big to fit onto a liftgate. So the initial expected delivery date of Monday didn’t work out, and while the shipping logistics company is working really hard to get her to me, as of now I still don’t have an official delivery date. They are, however, trying to get her to me tomorrow – we’ll see if that pans out.
Meanwhile, I’m sighing like the princess in the fairy tale…someday, my loom will come…
so, are all your doorways large enough?
Thankfully, it’s going into the garage! and yes, that door is big enough… 🙂
It sounds like you are going to need a second mortgage to cover shipping and delivery!
No kidding! What I paid for customs brokerage + local shipping charges would have bought me a brand-new loom (albeit not a jacquard loom!). Getting her to my door, etc. is costing almost as much as the charge for sea freight, which (if you think about it) is kinda ridiculous.
Sounds like what they need is a flat-bed truck with a piggyback forklift (rather than a box truck with a liftgate)…
I understand your pain – I’m here in Melbourne waiting for a box of yarn from Village Spinning and Weaving. The tracking number tells me it left Solvang on Saturday, arrived in Melbourne 2 days later and for the last 2 days has been somewhere between the airport and my post office, about 30 minutes away. With no local weaving shop those parcels really matter, how can it take longer to get across town than across the Pacific? Hope both deliveries happen soon
I’m with you there! Fortunately, it looks like Grace will be delivered tomorrow. Crossing fingers that your package arrives as well!