How do _you_ move equipment? What "tools" do you use?

From: JP Hindin <jplist_at_kiwigeek.com>
Date: Mon Oct 20 17:19:59 2003

Greetings;
I am faced with picking up a sizeable IBM some hours from where I live in
the next few weeks.
What I had originally planned to do has fallen through, and now I am left
trying to work out how best to lift what has been estimated as 800+lbs of
1978 IBM.

I have a decent half-ton pickup truck, its more than plenty for carrying
this machine home. The magic trick is - how do I get the heavy sucker into
the deck?
I was planning on "borrowing" another truck with a lift-gate on it, to
lift the IBM up to the pickup deck height, and then waffling it into the
pickup. That has fallen through, and actually renting one is, as far as
I'm concerned, cost prohibitive ($78 + 29c/mile + $150 deposit).

If you were to move this IBM, how would you have done it?
Keep in mind while I can cover $100 worth of gas for my pickup - more than
that is a pinch.

JP
Received on Mon Oct 20 2003 - 17:19:59 BST