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10th Oct 2020, 16:16
Great Slave Helicopters of Yellowknife were tasked with lifting a piano to the 3rd floor of a house, details and video below and attached.
What other strange lifts have members on here had to carry out?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yellowknife-man-uses-helicopter-to-move-piano-1.5757776 Yellowknife man uses helicopter to move piano to cliff-perched homeResidents of Yellowknife’s 'eraser house' needed a big lifthttps://i.cbc.ca/1.5757990.1602279040!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/piano-at-eraser-house.jpgThe family had to hire a helicopter to get their heirloom into the house. (Randall McKenzie/CBC)Yellowknifer Eric McNair-Landry lives in an unusual home.
It was designed by architect Gino Pin and locally, it's known as the "eraser house."
In the 1970s, Pin convinced the city to sell him a lot on a cliff, upon which he built a multi-story house. The steps to the first floor are at a sharp angle and the stairwell has a switchback.
So when McNair-Landry considered the prospect of getting his grandfather's upright piano — a family heirloom — to the third floor, he carefully weighed the options."One would be to lose all my friends trying to get them to take it up the stairwell here," he said.
"A crane wouldn't work, and even with boom extenders, it wouldn't have been possible to lift the piano."The pilot was right on target, landing his cargo metres from the house.
Workers in hard hats guided the helicopter onto a small landing platform — the family's back deck. The piano was packaged up in a wooden crate, which McNair-Landry's friends disassembled before lifting the piano onto the top floor.
Watch the piano get airlifted to the family's cliff-side home in Yellowknife:Yellowknife man airlifts piano into house (https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1803816003609/)
Moving a piano is anything but easy, as Eric McNair-Landry learned. His house's location, perched on Yellowknife rocks, meant he needed to enlist some serious movers to bring his heirloom piano home. McNair-Landry and his family watched from the rocks behind their house as the downwash shook the trees. His young child looked upon the scene in awe.
He says the family is still waiting for the final bill, but the landing went off without a hitch.
What other strange lifts have members on here had to carry out?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yellowknife-man-uses-helicopter-to-move-piano-1.5757776 Yellowknife man uses helicopter to move piano to cliff-perched homeResidents of Yellowknife’s 'eraser house' needed a big lifthttps://i.cbc.ca/1.5757990.1602279040!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/piano-at-eraser-house.jpgThe family had to hire a helicopter to get their heirloom into the house. (Randall McKenzie/CBC)Yellowknifer Eric McNair-Landry lives in an unusual home.
It was designed by architect Gino Pin and locally, it's known as the "eraser house."
In the 1970s, Pin convinced the city to sell him a lot on a cliff, upon which he built a multi-story house. The steps to the first floor are at a sharp angle and the stairwell has a switchback.
So when McNair-Landry considered the prospect of getting his grandfather's upright piano — a family heirloom — to the third floor, he carefully weighed the options."One would be to lose all my friends trying to get them to take it up the stairwell here," he said.
"A crane wouldn't work, and even with boom extenders, it wouldn't have been possible to lift the piano."The pilot was right on target, landing his cargo metres from the house.
Workers in hard hats guided the helicopter onto a small landing platform — the family's back deck. The piano was packaged up in a wooden crate, which McNair-Landry's friends disassembled before lifting the piano onto the top floor.
Watch the piano get airlifted to the family's cliff-side home in Yellowknife:Yellowknife man airlifts piano into house (https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1803816003609/)
Moving a piano is anything but easy, as Eric McNair-Landry learned. His house's location, perched on Yellowknife rocks, meant he needed to enlist some serious movers to bring his heirloom piano home. McNair-Landry and his family watched from the rocks behind their house as the downwash shook the trees. His young child looked upon the scene in awe.
He says the family is still waiting for the final bill, but the landing went off without a hitch.