We rented a humoungous construction fork-lift to lift Charlie off the trailer. Above is a picture of the forks being threaded thru the lift cables above the rotor head. 

 The second picture is with tension on the cables and Charlie about to become "airborne." Possible for the last time, ever.

                                                                                                                                                                         

This Last picture of Charlie actually off the ground and floating in mid-air.  I practiced with the fork lift for about two minutes and thought I was an ace.  it was very embarassing that every time I tried to move the helo an inch or two, it would jump about six inches, and usually in the wrong direction!
By the time we were done, I had developed the finesse it took to move it very slowly, and inch at a time, but I still had trouble with direction of move!  But, we did it!  We got Charlie off the trailer and got the landing struts and axels attached, many thanks to Carson for hanging around long after he had to, and providing his experience and expertise with these manuevers.see next set of pictures.