Original Posted By: John Hofmann
Go Corky!Good luck on the return trip our peayers are with you man!>From: KMHeide >Reply-To: pietenpol-list(at)matronics.com>To: Pietenpol >Subject: Pietenpol-List: A corksickle update........>Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:01:31 -0800 (PST)>>Members of the List:>> Corky arrived with his son around 1:00 pm Fargo time (amidst zero >temperatures, strong winds, Less then 5 miles visability, windchill of 20 >below) to greet his new found project.. the 42' Blue Boy Defender Aeronca >Champ. He arrived excited yet tired of the long trip up. "Us Yankees handle >the cold much better than them southerners"......>> Corky, his son David, me and my daughters started up the salamander >heater and started the work of removing the tail section. Everything went >smoothly but with the cold inside the hanger, it made a 10 minute job much >longer. We kept working with rotation between heater time and planning >time. Finally, we moved the trailer into the hanger along side the plane >for loading.>> Created a wood platform for the front gear and then another platform for >the tail. With the plane parallel to the trailer, lifted the tail up onto >the rear of the trailer. Then, we planned on lifting the front of the >Defender (one gear leg at a time) onto the trailer with hopes of sliding >the wheels across into position/alignment with the trailer. Since the wood >was frozen and had some frost on it, I added more snow to make it slippery >for sliding the planes gear across it. Corky and I grabbed one side of the >front gear leg and his son David used a dolly on the opposite side to lift >that sides' wheel off the floor as we lifted our side. The tail-wheel was >kept in place with a block to prevent moving on the rear platform. *(Note - >Corky being a young man (80 yrs. old) is extremely strong!!) Together we >lifted the entire side of the plane and set the wheel onto the trailer >which was about 3 1/2 feet tall! We then walked around and grabbed the >side David was on and picked> up the wheel and side it the remaining wheel onto the trailer and into >position. In summation, we picked up the entire front of the defender and >slide it on to the trailer. (We are two strong sons-of- *itches! Don't mess >with pietenpol builders!)>> After this we decided to call it a day. Total time on loading >fuselage.....about 4 1/2 hours. Tomorrow....the wings under the fuselage >and then strapping everything down. Departure time around 1:00 PM or >thereabouts.>> Photos to follow....>> This has been a Corksickle update! He loves winter in North >Dakota....Will try and get him to help make snowman tomorrow...before he is >completely frozen and can't move!>> Ken H> Fargo, ND>>>--------------------------------->No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go>with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started.________________________________________________________________________________Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:23:44 -0600Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Enforced "no build" Time OT