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Re: Big Truck
By:Julie Kanarr
Date: 5/9/2001, 9:45 am
In Response To: Re: Big Truck (Chip Sandresky)

: I have three strips on one boat and eleven on the other. I'm getting a 24'
: Ryder truck that the two 21' boats should slide into nicely. I figure I
: can put a hole near the top of several station molds and secure a line
: from there to the sides of the truck in order to keep them from flopping
: over.

And do *something* to protect the boat from boxes, etc., sliding into it and breaking strips as it is held immobile against the side of the truck... if not the bombproof shipping crate I'd originally suggested (my last experience with moving --3 years ago--involved my volunteer 'helpers' loading a particle board cabinet on top of a hutch -- the hutch broke under the weight of riding under that for 500 miles.... but it was one of those cheapo ones that someone had pawned off on me so I didn't care, but I DID learn that a major hazard in moving is stuff getting mushed by other stuff in the truck... and there were a few boxes that had shifted position during the move since the truck wasn't absolutely full... I had too much stuff for the next smaller size truck, but not quite enough to "tight pack" the truck I did get. Having been burned once, I tend toward overkill the next time around.)

So.. bubble wrap... or construct a cardboard box... and/or pack stragically, with immobile pieces of furniture between the boats and boxes that can shift position & take out a strip right between the forms....

Julie Kanarr

Messages In This Thread

Moving Day
Chip Sandresky -- 5/8/2001, 12:34 pm
Re: Moving Day
Shawn Baker -- 5/9/2001, 3:38 pm
Re: Moving Day
Bill Price -- 5/9/2001, 3:54 pm
Re: Overhead storage, space
Mike Hanks -- 5/9/2001, 4:59 pm
Re: Moving Day
Shawn Baker -- 5/9/2001, 4:09 pm
Re: Moving Day
Rehd -- 5/9/2001, 3:43 pm
Re: Insufficiently informed
Shawn Baker -- 5/9/2001, 4:07 pm
Re: Moving Day
Rehd -- 5/9/2001, 12:11 am
Re: Opps!! Nasty Typo :(
Rehd -- 5/9/2001, 12:15 am
Re: Big Truck
Chip Sandresky -- 5/8/2001, 6:50 pm
Big Moving Truck
Mike Scarborough -- 5/13/2001, 10:55 am
Re: Big Truck
Julie Kanarr -- 5/9/2001, 9:45 am
Re: They Ride Alone
Chip Sandresky -- 5/9/2001, 11:44 am
Re: They Ride Alone
Julie Kanarr -- 5/9/2001, 1:46 pm
Re: Big Truck
Shawn Baker -- 5/8/2001, 7:04 pm
Re: Gift wrap
Shawn Baker -- 5/8/2001, 6:38 pm
Re: Moving Day
Julie Kanarr -- 5/8/2001, 4:18 pm
Re: Moving Day
Jim -- 5/8/2001, 1:40 pm