WooHoo! New Diamdback S showed up today...

[Catnhat]

except it showed up about 3 days before it was expected.
Talk about some scrambling around this morning!
No forklift, no pallet jack at the shop, equipment needed moved to get it inside, still had a job on the manual to run......and of course, it HAD to be raining this morning.

Called in some favors, promised some lunches and beers and it's all good.  Pictures will be coming later.

[Prosperi-Tees]

Yes pics please. That kinda sucks that you didnt get a heads up on that but like has been said M&R over delivers!

[jasonl]

You are gonna love it!

[Nation03]

Pics of the whole process! What'd you get, 8/10?

[Rockers]

How long ago did you place the order?

[blue moon]

AWESOME!!!!

[mjrprint]

Nice!!! We get ours the first week of May along with a mini sprint 2000.

[Catnhat]

We originally planned on the regular 8/10 Diamondback and was set to order it in Dec.  But advice from the accountant said wait till the first of the year (for whatever reasons I didn't pay much attention to).  Then when Rich commented on Evo's post about his single station on Christmas Eve, about a new series Diamondback being unveiled at the Long Beach show, we called Rich to find out as much as we could.  After a nice chat with Rich we decided to wait the 3 weeks until the Long Beach show and get the show special.
So, it was ordered during the Long Beach show.  An 8/10 "B" package with the "show special" 9th head wired.

The truck showing up early threw us for a loop.  You can kinda see from the pic, we have a "nice" slope down to the rollup door.  Steeper than a regular forklift can get up & down.  (especially in the rain)  We had a lift with a telescopic boom reserved, which makes moving equipment in & out easy, and avoiding the slope all together, but the earliest we could get it was Wed.  And you can't rent fork extensions here.  We were planning on borrowing some from a customer that offered, but we couldn't get a hold of him.
Fortunately, the owner from the machine shop next door wandered over and offered his forklift/with extensions to get it off the truck (for a lunch).  But said there was no way he could get it down the slope and was worried about sinking in the gravel.  OK.  Let's just get the crates off the truck.
A quick trip to the rental place and picked up a pallet jack to start moving things inside to make room.  We were planning on borrowing one from a friend, but he was using it and couldn't get his to us until around 5:00.
After everything was off the truck the rain stopped.
Got the main unit uncrated and sitting on the slope on a pallet jack with everything  chained  to the forklift, then slowly let the forklift ease it down the slope and into the building.
Uncrated everything else outside and carried it into the building.
Our neighbor at the front of the building comes out and says if we cut the wood into manageable pieces, we can throw it in his truck and he'll take it to his burn pit.  (WooHoo!  6 pack for you!)
Get everything inside, wood cut up & cleaned up, and it starts raining again.  Friend shows up with his pallet jack (about 4:00).  Start re-arranging everything to try to get things in place.  Customer (from the one job that's supposed to be picked up today at 5), calls and says she can't get there until Tues. sometime after 3.  WooHoo! 
Get everything burned and set up to run in the morning.
Tech is scheduled to be in next week.  Life is good again.

[Gabe]

congrats kitty
please show some pics when is all assembled
thanks 

[jasonl]

that thing will run like a champ.  I run 60 dozen an hour on mine with no problems.  super smooth indexer too!

[Rockers]

Nice, our Diamondback S will ship around the 20th of April latest. Did you get a new flash unit with that press. We ordered one of the new Red Chili flashes.

[Catnhat]

Nice, our Diamondback S will ship around the 20th of April latest. Did you get a new flash unit with that press. We ordered one of the new Red Chili flashes.

No new flash.  We already have a Red Chili that we got with our Chameleon about 3 yrs ago.

[inkman996]

I would have put the main crate on the palette jack then backed a pick up or suv to it and slowly rolled it down the slope using the Vehicles power to control. What ever worked for you tho awesome.

[3Deep]

Ain't nothing like getting a new toy to play for awhile, and M&R makes some pretty good stuff so I hear LOL.   Just wait until you tear into a 1K order you'll happy how quick it will go and you get to go home at a reasonable time.


Darryl

[tonypep]

I for one am disappointed. On other sites we get to see countless versions of pictures of the same thing, including the Penske stuck in the mud, and people pointing at signs and giving the finger. Guess you'll have to be content to have a new auto, delivered early no less, and time proven sound technology and service.
Oh well sometimes you have to settle!