For those who have not been following let me set the scene. We are moving to New York and everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. I really needed a win. I got one. I'm in NY. Waki is in CA. I don't know anyone near here. The two handyman/laborer ads I found on C.L. didn't call me back and the real estate guy's goto guy's voice mail says he doesn't answer his phone til after five. I have a fridge that weighs over 300 lbs in the driveway installation not included. There is no way it will fit through my 1935 30" front door. The door by the driveway. The door it fits in is at the other end of the house up 5 stairs (3 to the deck, 2 into the dining room) and through the double doors. I will have to move the mullion between the doors.

I have my rigging kit, a floor jack and the day before I went to homedepot and I bought a cheap handtruck  to move some boxes. That's when I saw the fridge. New models had arrived so this one was on clearance. I snapped a few photos and talked to Waki about it later on the phone. At that point it was $2,999 marked down 30% to $2,098 and now on clearance for $1,797. When I called them in the morning they held it for me and when I got there it had been marked down again to $1,497. Delivery, tax and license, dealer prep, I was out the door for $1,702.

Now, though, it was in my driveway and it was by my fuzzy math a tad over 300 pounds. It was strapped to a pallet and wrapped in clear wrap and nearly 100 feet to the door it had to go in. Through the clover in the dewy soil and fallen leaves.

Lets talk for a moment about fuzzy math. This is what I use to guage weight. In moving I found I could come to within 100 pounds of a weight limit using this formula.
I figure if I can easily pick it up with one hand 60lbs, If I can easily pick it up 150, lift with your legs 200, can only tip it 300, can shove it an inch 400, can't budge it 500. I could tip it but only a hair but I could shove it inches. So by my calcs I said a tad over 300. I looked it up. It actually weights 320lbs.

I knew I could do this if I could tip it a bit and get stuff under it. Skinny as I am I don't weigh enough to tip it back onto the dolly. It seemed impossible. I thought about it for a bit and decided to go for it.

I backed my truck up to it, took it off the pallet by \m/ rocking it \m/ and walking it corner to corner. I got the hand truck under it. In my truck I tied a rope across the front of the bed and hooked the hoist (yellow hook) to it. I got a rope (blue/white) and some padding around it and hooked the handle of the truck to the hoist. I got another rope (green/yellow) around it with a trucker's hitch on each side and a full wrap ready to stabilize it. Another rope (orange) tied the fridge to the handtruck. The hoist tipped it like it wasn't even there and it settled onto the hand truck.
I tightened all the ropes. I \m/ rocked it \m/ and it was so stable I just used the dolly as wheels and drove it over there, stopping a few times to tighten the trucker's hitch on one side or the other to keep it uprightish. Once I got there I realized if I keep tipping I might be able to get it up a ramp the same way. I got my camera dolly platform which has skate board wheels under it on rails and is really strong and used it as a ramp.

I repositioned things and tipped it back some more with the hoist. The hand truck absorbed any damage and I eventually bent it but oh well. There is a stump right where my truck needed to be but I could use an old forklift trick to angle in and cut it hard to swing it between the house and the railing over the steps. Using the ropes to keep it stable I let out the hoist until it sat flat on the ramp. I got out my floor jack and some 2x4s and jacked the hand truck up which tipped it enough to block it and stabilize it there.

Then a little bit more to engage the gravity assist and pushed and pulled it onto the deck right in front of the door. Skipping the first 3 steps entirely.

Seeing it there in front of the door after feeling like it was so impossible, I felt like I could do anything I wanted so I called it a day.

It was dewy out in the morning and I found that I could move the step in front of the door. So instead of two steps I only had one big one. Sitting there sipping my coffee I realized that there is nothing to tie the winch to inside the dining room so I needed to raise it straight up about ten inches. I sat and PONDered that for a while and hoped I could make the similar sort of moves as the first time to get it up and in the door.

So I grabbed the pallet got the hand truck under it, raised it up and slid the pallet under and got a block under the other side. Then swung around and did the same on the back side. Once it was up there I setup the ramp and the jack in the doorway.

Then using blocks under the far corner I shoved and pulled it over onto the ramp part way and then shoved it on fully once it was on its wheels.