The piano is here!

Our piano is here! My dh and Nathan and a friend and his son went to pick it up. It was fairly easy to get it out of the seller's house (as easy as moving a 400# piano can be). Then they drove it through light drizzle to our house and went to the back of the house. To get it in the basement, we decided to lower it in the window well and take it in through the large windows in the basement. To get it down in the window well, we used the tractor.

My dh beginning "his pick".

Expertly lifted, don't you think?

The rain held off and we were able to move the piano without having to wrap it in tarps.

Here is the piano positioned near the window well. Now my dh expertly designed our large window well in such a way that we could get large objects in and out of the windows to the basement and that planning paid off in a big way in getting the piano downstairs. The piano and the piano dolly we used fit in the window well with just a few inches all around to spare.

We're beginning to lower the piano down into the window well. I wish I had more pictures of the actual lowering but I had to help guide the piano so it didn't break the window.

We got it down into the well and put it on two boards. Then we rolled it onto the ramps and into the basement.

The final result!

By the way, when the boys weren't helping us, they made up a new game. They tried to catch falling leaves before the leaves touched the ground.