How to Move a Large Tool Box

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WinterDeere said:
I had so much shop equipment and machinery, that when I moved into this house years ago, I hired a rigging company. They sent four trucks and two crews, split roughly equally for house and shop. The rigging crew for the shop brought a heavy-duty forklift, as some of my machines weighed several thousand pounds each, and we just picked up the tool chests and set them directly on the truck with the forklift.
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You are my hero! That is a shop!
 
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deezler said:
Any other 3-pt attachments you could put on for ballast? Pretty important when lifting heavy.

Too bad you have to change your user name to "northern wisconsin Dave" now. Farewell to MI eh
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I still have a cottage in the U.P. about 90 minutes away. Been in the family for 3 generations. I am a half yooper, as my Dad was from Detroit. People still ask which half?, and I reply 'Front Half'.
 
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yooperdave said:
I used more than a dozen 5 gallon pails to load up the contents of the tool box. I can separate the upper and lower with the understanding the crew will need to restack at the new location as I do not have the resource to restore. Big reason for moving is due to deteriorating health and ADA access.
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Another good reason to unload it is that those casters are probably NOT rated to handle that load on a truck bouncing down the road. Shock loads can be easily 5x higher than static loads, and could easily cave the bottom of your toolbox at the caster attachment plates, if moved loaded. When I moved mine loaded, I set it up on blocks, so the weight was not on the casters themselves.
 
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sea2summit said:
You are my hero! That is a shop!
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I used to be into collecting and restoring old woodworking machinery. My 1903 table saw weighed 2200 lb., had a rolling table, tilting table, quadrants, and a rip fence that weighed as much as a complete modern table saw. The jointer was a 16" model with a total cutterhead width (babbit bearings) of 30" and a bed over 7 feet long. The bandsaw was 9 feet tall and weighed over 1200 lb. with the motor removed, and the radial saw was a very top-heavy 800 lb. beast, not to mention the many 500 lb. planers, smaller jointers, drill presses, etc.

I've since sold off pretty most of the stuff too big to move myself, in recent years. With a shop that's two floors of 20 x 30 feet, I needed to be able to move the heavy equipment aside when I needed to back a car or tractor into a bay to work on it. Now, other than one big bandsaw, my woodworking machinery is all stuff under 1000 lb., and I've built mobile bases for each so that I can move them around as needed for playing home-shop mechanic.

If I weren't married, the house I would've bought had separate barn spaces for woodworking, metalworking, and vehicle storage. But since marriage is compromise, I only got two out of those three, meaning my mechanic's shop is also full of sawdust. Not great for welding indoors. :confused:
 
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Rockbadchild said:
leave the tools inside the drawer but remove them from the tool box
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You just reminded me that's how I moved shops back in 1998. I removed each drawer from my tool chest, set them in the bed of my pickup, and then threw the cabinet in last. Good for short moves in your own vehicle.
 
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jwmorris said:
I know a lot of guys have them moved with a flatbed wrecker.

Its a lot cheaper to just rent one of these, roll it on, then lift it up.

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I got somewhat lucky. The movers came with a truck and a trailer. The bed of the trailer was much lower, and we just pushed the tool boxes on with no complications.

Yooper Dave
 
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Well, never hurts to plan, either way. Like washing your car makes it rain, if you hadn't a plan, they'd have shown up with a taller trailer. o_O
 
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