"I don't know how 'He' expects you to get that on it's stand." said the young-ish and attractive Ms. C. before leaving for work in a sports car attired in a suit.
Ms.C. was refering to the stove, weight 142kg according to the installation book, which had to somehow defy gravity and levitate two feet in the air coming to rest gently on it's purpose made pedestal.
"I'll cross that bridge when..."
Having attended to other concerns that 'He" had been getting in a tiz about, the afternoon saw me faced with the levitation problem.
Dismantling bits off the thing in an attempt to lose some weight still saw it resolutely stuck to the new oak floor.
That's when I turned to the Wisdom of the Ancients, did the Egyptians have an extra-terrestrial helping hand when they lifted the blocks of stone to build the Pyramid of Cheops?
No, they used an inclined plane.
Piiling up some unopened packs of parquet flooring and resting a plank on them gave the suitably inclined plane.
All that remained was to drag the monster up the plank without dropping it onto the new oak floor, a dent would be very unimpressive.
So there it was in place and reassembled, with the plank gone like an earth ramp from a Pyramid, the question would always remain "HOW THE HELL...?"
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Actually the REAL question is, how silly does a sportscar look attired in a suit?
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