wingspan33 wrote:Hey Warren,
Everything can be shipped. It could cost a couple, or few, hundred but if no one is available to deliver it free then shipping could be the only option.
North Carolina is 500-600 miles south of me, but then it is also about the same distance to you from here. Clearly, I gave some thought to going and getting it for you but that's a lot of miles and time. Since I live in central NYS I would figure that you understand the basic idea.
There are companies that will go get the item, pack it up and put it on a truck to be delivered to you.
I would send you $50 to help in the effort. Anybody else interested in helping?
That's very kind of you Scott, but you are reading too much into my offer. I'm more fishing to see if there is any life left in the Kansas City area for hang gliding.
It's never been a money thing. It's always been just about a 1000 mile, one way, road trip. I had a three day window recently where I seriously thought about making the trip, but I came to my senses and realized that I can't do that crap anymore. It's the main reason I dropped u$hga membership. I hated road trips of 6 to 12 hrs one way to closest place to fly after my flight park partners stole my dragonfly interest. And then Hang 2, "General Manager" James Rupert Gaar, declared that "none of his pilots would ever tow me at his flight park," which was now 2 hrs. away with an hour of it through city traffic.
This is where Mark Forbes, told me to just go fly 6 to 12 hrs. away because he wouldn't interfere in a private business. All I asked was for a phone call to help.
Then, Jim Zeisit, the former President of U$HGA, who almost bankrupted the corporation along with Treasurer Mark Forbes, banned me from the old Utah.ed message board and Mark Forbes, immediately went on that board with a message that he 'knew the inside scoop' and that Jim Gaar had 'bent over backwards'
trying to deal with me. U$HGA LIAR, Mark G. Forbes!
It's good to know that there are decent pilots like yourself, Scott.
It's really good to know great pilots like Pat Hayes, in North Carolina, who supplied free storage of this tow rig for many years after I purchased it.
He finally sold the hangar it was stored in and in desperation of not being able to locate me, put it up for sale at Jack's coffee shop/living room.
I happened to see it a month later and called up to see if it had been sold yet. He said no and I told him who I was. He told me he had prayed that I would contact him. It brings a tear to my eyes today, a month later. Pat has left U$hPa also and now flies sailplanes and aerobatic airplanes.
The rig is still available in N. Carolina @ $1500 less than I gave for it to keep me from making the drive. Otherwise I'll go get it for sure as spring breaks out and I can leave my animals to survive for a few days without me. The wind chill is around zero and below here now.
As I survive another winter there will be a tow rig at my place this summer.
Gotta run for now but thanks again for your generous consideration.
Warren
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