Yeah, I couldn't find one around here so my buddy down near Conowingo, PA, got it and had it hanging from a chain fall when I got there (he's a rigger). We still had trouble getting in the van, unlike dropping it on a pickup.
At home I jerry rigged a tripod over the hole with some two inch schedule 80 pipe, but it still had to slide out of the van. Every time I tried, the whole works would start to lean in a different direction. By the time I was done, I had about 150 feet of 3/4" rope tied off from the tripod to three different trees and the back steps railing.
All this at about two in the morning with floodlights clamped to stepladders, and the state Police cruising by real slow every half hour. It's a wonder I didn't kill myself. But I was only 40 and stupidly confident.
