From: David Cole (DavidCole@tk7.net)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 07:32:30 PDT
I don't know what you have to move, but when I moved 6 years ago I had to
move a lot of machinery. The move was about 200 miles. I had a 1 ton
dually flatbed truck with a small crane on it and a tandem axle trailer
with an 18 foot bed. I didn't have any military stuff at the time. In
hindsight I would have bought a heavier, larger capacity, flatbed truck, a
5 ton would have been good, and still pulled the 18 foot trailer. I would
have also rented or bought two small fork trucks and put one at both
locations. I would have also obtained a bunch of pallets and strapped
everything to them and loaded them with the fork trucks. As it was, I did
more than 10 round trips to move machinery, equipment, and vehicles. My
back was still healing 6 months later. Just too much lifting. After that
I rented 2 Ryder diesel vans to move the household stuff and we made 2
trips with those. I don't envy you at all. Moving sucks.
Good Luck,
Dave
On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 19:31:52 -0700, Bruce Beattie <bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu>
wrote:
> Ok guys and gals, here's your laugh for the day.
>
> I may have to move from Berkeley CA to Yucca Valley CA in the relatively
> near future,
> 6 months to a year and a half. Not shure yet.
>
> I have a lot of very, very, heavy stuff to move down there. Here comes
> the question.
>
> Am I completely brain dead in thinking about buying a 5 Ton and using it
> to move my stuff
> down there over several trips?
>
> Money is an object here, but I am figuring that it will take a lot of
> time and skill to load stuff
> and if I was hiring a trucker to move the stuff, I would be eaten alive
> in the handling charges.
>
> Ok everyone, fire at will.
>
> PS: Are there any active MV groups down in that area?
>
> Bruce MVPA 23824
>
>
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-- Dave
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