BIG DAY TODAY! After 3 years or so, I moved the wings to the hangar (yay!)
Picked up a 12' u-haul trailer in north Wichita, then then drove to Valley Center and bought a cherry-picker engine hoist that I found on facebook marketplace. Dashed home and offloaded the hoist, then started prepping with furniture pads and straps.
Stacy Greene came over after work and helped with the grunt work. The trailer isn't wide enough to lay two wings side by side, but since it's only 11 miles from my house to the hangar I didn't feel the need to try to figure out how to stack them. I elected to just take one wing at a time and make multiple trips.
We loaded one wing wrapped burrito style in moving blankets into the center of the trailer with cinch straps positioned to keep it from sliding around. I took the wing on the u-haul trailer and Stacy took the wing stand in his 5'x8' utility trailer so we didn't have to lay it on the hangar floor. When we got there we just offloaded the cradle first, then sat the wing in it. ezee peeze.
Second lap was equally uneventful and then suddenly there was a lot more space in my garage.
It was around 6:00 at this point, and Stacy went home. I had really only planned to move the wings today, but I still had the trailer, so I elected to take advantage of it. A couple of weeks ago I built a simple stand to rest the wings on during installation and I threw that on the trailer and moved it to the hangar as well. Capped off the night by moving the horizontal stab, then took the trailer back and dropped it off at u-haul. I picked it up at 1:00 and dropped it off around 9:00 pm.
All in all, I think I got my money's worth out of a $29 trailer rental, but I've got to say I'm kind of tired after all of that. With the trip up to Valley Center followed up with all that back and forth, I pulled that trailer about 120 miles today, all without getting more than 20 miles from home.
Busy day, but I didn't think to get any pictures, not that they would show anything other than a bunch of moving blankets wrapped around airplane parts.