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Cab collectors - How not to injure yourself?
DrewKaree:
Probably your cheapest and easiest solution is to just clone yourself and help yourself.
Every other solution is just going to end up costing you money in the long run. Money you thought you had, but when cost overruns are factored into it, you'll have spent more than cloning yourself.
Or clone your wench. ;D
tommy:
--- Quote from: RayB on March 01, 2005, 04:20:46 pm ---OK based on the advice here, I think this is what I'm going to do:
1. I'll park the cab somewhere in the living room and tell the woman it's temporary.
2. I'll join a gym and work out until the woman gets really fed up of the cab being in the living room, and demands I move it.
3. I'll still put a mattress at the bottom of the stairs.
4. I'll strap the cab to a good dolly and strap myself to it.
5. I'll stay behind the cab and also in front of the cab.
6. I'll ease the cab down, and eventually let it go.
;D
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LMAO ;D
ChadTower:
Actually, there's another step. When you're muscular enough to move the cab, and the woman is fed up with it being there, take your shirt off and show the woman your new hugerippedness. She will forget about the cab. Trust me.
Unless of course the woman is your mom. That's just wrong.
paigeoliver:
I never, ever, ever use dollies to move games up and down stairs. The dollies just bounce the games around, and the furniture dollies might be smooth, but it is still essentially just sliding the sucker down the steps at that point. If I am doing that I might as well just slide the game down the steps on it's back, less likely go get away from me that way.
My normal method of doing stairs is to pull the monitor from the cabinet, move the monitor down the stairs, and then get someone else to help me with the cabinet. They are a lot lighter without the monitor, and thus much easier to move (unless it is an atari cabinet, in which case it is going to be heavy and have no place to grab no matter how you do it).
I have also (on a few occasions) SOMEHOW managed to move an entire game into or out of my second floor apartment by myself with no assistance. I can only do it with plywood cabs though, and I have to take all the weight out of them first. A bare plywood cab is way under 100 lbs, and can be handled by one guy, it is just awkward.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 03, 2005, 12:14:47 am ---I never, ever, ever use dollies to move games up and down stairs. The dollies just bounce the games around...
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Not if you know how to use a dolly and control it properly. I do this all the time and have only had a problem once, with an odd shaped cocktail cab that didn't want to fit through the door until I dollied it down AND rotated it in a cramped stairwell. The dolly is probably the safest method for one average strength man to do this alone. If he had a friend to help him he wouldn't have posted here.
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