No on-site storage; as far as I know, if people want to bring in oversized trailers they can. Of course, if you can't get your oversized trailer down to something that's road-legal then you'd have trouble doing that.
This is aggravating. When I built the house I thought the worst-case scenario I was betting against was Pennsic moving. I did not give sufficient consideration to Dave Cooper's heirs and successors and their reduced tolerance for the SCA.
What's really infuriating is the poor communication over the last few years. When we arrived at Pennsic in 2015 to learn they wouldn't tow it (and there's a whole story there, too, where they said we were on the schedule several times and then *silently* dropped us), they said they had sent me a notice about changing requirements. I did not receive it and asked, several times, for a copy of said notice. I have still never seen that notice. What the person in charge told me in person is that it's too big and too heavy, but mainly too heavy, and that's not safe for his drivers to tow. So since then we have been making private towing arrangements, except for 2016 when we said "screw it" and used our vacation time for a trip to Italy. We spent two years building our new kitchen trailer and sold our old, heavy kitchen building that had been stored in the house. We did other things to lighten the load. I think it was 2016 when I told him we were going to lighten the load and asked if he would consider towing it when we had done so. He said they would re-evaluate if we did that. We shook hands.
All this time, for the last four years, every conversation has been about *towing*. For that matter, the email I received talked about how they can't tow it. But we're not expecting them to! I sent email this summer reporting back on the lightened-load thing and humbly asking for reconsideration; I never received a reply and we arrived to find out the answer was a summary "no". Fine; we had someone who could tow it for us. We proceeded as we have every year.
That they are unwilling to *have it on site* is completely new. The email talked about how I've been "grandfathered" and they're phasing out grandfathering so I have to remove it. Had I known that they considered its *presence* to be grandfathered and likely to become unwelcome, I would not have replaced the leaking roof this year and would have just "patched" that (or stuck a bucket under it, or something), if I thought I only had a year or two anyway.
The trailer is not road-legal. The house is narrow enough to count as a "wide load" in PA (rather than a forbiddenly-wide load), but it's too tall to transport on roads here. I *suspect* there's no cost-effective way to address that, but I haven't done a lot of research yet. But even if I can get it to the point where it can go on the roads, I don't think annual trips are going to be feasible -- every move means renting or hiring a big-enough vehicle to tow it, which would need to happen at least four times a year (the other two are for inspection), the trailer is 20 years old and probably needs work to be able to move at road speeds rather than Cooper speeds, and with respect to our camp it's already been moving from asset to liability in some ways. (I end up getting help from others in various ways; that was a good deal for the camp when we were storing everything in it, but now we're not.) Dani and I, and we and the camp, need to talk more, but I think this is heading toward: if we can't keep it on site we can't keep it. And that's heartbreaking.
There's a Silvering's law that only Pennsic is worth the trouble that only Pennsic requires. Part of me is thinking that's not true any more and 40 Pennsics will have been a good run for me. But I realize I'm reacting in the moment and I'm certainly not making decisions now about whether I'll show up in three years. I need to spend time figuring out what realistic options look like post-eviction.
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Date: 2019-08-15 02:46 am (UTC)This is aggravating. When I built the house I thought the worst-case scenario I was betting against was Pennsic moving. I did not give sufficient consideration to Dave Cooper's heirs and successors and their reduced tolerance for the SCA.
What's really infuriating is the poor communication over the last few years. When we arrived at Pennsic in 2015 to learn they wouldn't tow it (and there's a whole story there, too, where they said we were on the schedule several times and then *silently* dropped us), they said they had sent me a notice about changing requirements. I did not receive it and asked, several times, for a copy of said notice. I have still never seen that notice. What the person in charge told me in person is that it's too big and too heavy, but mainly too heavy, and that's not safe for his drivers to tow. So since then we have been making private towing arrangements, except for 2016 when we said "screw it" and used our vacation time for a trip to Italy. We spent two years building our new kitchen trailer and sold our old, heavy kitchen building that had been stored in the house. We did other things to lighten the load. I think it was 2016 when I told him we were going to lighten the load and asked if he would consider towing it when we had done so. He said they would re-evaluate if we did that. We shook hands.
All this time, for the last four years, every conversation has been about *towing*. For that matter, the email I received talked about how they can't tow it. But we're not expecting them to! I sent email this summer reporting back on the lightened-load thing and humbly asking for reconsideration; I never received a reply and we arrived to find out the answer was a summary "no". Fine; we had someone who could tow it for us. We proceeded as we have every year.
That they are unwilling to *have it on site* is completely new. The email talked about how I've been "grandfathered" and they're phasing out grandfathering so I have to remove it. Had I known that they considered its *presence* to be grandfathered and likely to become unwelcome, I would not have replaced the leaking roof this year and would have just "patched" that (or stuck a bucket under it, or something), if I thought I only had a year or two anyway.
The trailer is not road-legal. The house is narrow enough to count as a "wide load" in PA (rather than a forbiddenly-wide load), but it's too tall to transport on roads here. I *suspect* there's no cost-effective way to address that, but I haven't done a lot of research yet. But even if I can get it to the point where it can go on the roads, I don't think annual trips are going to be feasible -- every move means renting or hiring a big-enough vehicle to tow it, which would need to happen at least four times a year (the other two are for inspection), the trailer is 20 years old and probably needs work to be able to move at road speeds rather than Cooper speeds, and with respect to our camp it's already been moving from asset to liability in some ways. (I end up getting help from others in various ways; that was a good deal for the camp when we were storing everything in it, but now we're not.) Dani and I, and we and the camp, need to talk more, but I think this is heading toward: if we can't keep it on site we can't keep it. And that's heartbreaking.
There's a Silvering's law that only Pennsic is worth the trouble that only Pennsic requires. Part of me is thinking that's not true any more and 40 Pennsics will have been a good run for me. But I realize I'm reacting in the moment and I'm certainly not making decisions now about whether I'll show up in three years. I need to spend time figuring out what realistic options look like post-eviction.