Moving companies like to up sell the box and they have them sized to fit their vans perfectly. I will bet that many of those boxes are filled very ineffeciently, such as one of Susie's bears in one big box with nothing else in it.
We used a pack it yourself trailer when we moved. Luckily, we had a retired veterinarian friend help us who had put himself through school working for a moving company. His back may have lost a lot over the years but his eye was spot on. His packing job was a thing of beauty though, unlike that truck, it got a bit ragged at the end. Things like bicycles are not neat.
We did the same when we moved out here. I had just retired from a job where I loaded semi-trailers for the last 10 years, so the front of the trailer looked really nice. Once I started loading the furniture though, it wasn't pretty - I just stacked it the best I could. Towards the tail, it was a mess.
Ha! I think this happens to literally everyone in the military. I had a full trash can packed and delivered on my ETS move. Luckily, it was winter and everything was frozen solid.
If that's real, they've blocked the rear door with boxes jammed against it. . .Okay, never mind. Just looked at the bigger image, and they are split hinged doors folded back against the truck body. My eyes aren't what they used to be. Great packaging job.
In the past 50 years or so, I have moved at least 15 times. I may be forgetting one or two. I always had some sort of trailer and even though others would ask me to help them move and I always would, when it came time for me to move there wasn't a soul around to help. So, I bought a furniture dolly from Harbor Freight and cut some plywood longwise for ramps and I learned all the tricks. I have had five wives and I trained each one of them how to be a good mover's helper. Some had a knack for it others didn't. I have never been a big muscular brute of a man so I had to learn how to use leverage, wheels and rope ties to help move stuff.
Ya ever try to move a Hide-A-Bed couch? If you don't know how to tie it right it will open on you just about the time you are halfway through the front door.
Mattresses aren't bad because you can kinda fold them to get through doors and then a tight turn down a flight of stairs...but then the box spring (if all in one piece) has to do some "furniture yoga" to move through tight turns and spaces.
Loading the pick-up bed and the trailer was my job. Sometimes I would have a 24 foot box truck rental. All the same, you had to be able to look at item and know where it was going to fit.
Then there was the heavy stuff on bottom and the light stuff on top. Women had a tough time figuring that one out. Never could understand that. It was if they thought "if it all fits in a box then it can go anywhere". A box full of books no one will ever read and weighs near 100 pounds does not belong on top of the box of glass nick-nacks.
With this last wife I have lived in this one house longer than any house ever, and I am hating this POS. I have told her I am ready to move again, this time I'll hire some young Mexican boys, they make good movers (I have hired some before...but you have to get the ones who live in the country not the city).
Someone played a lot of Tetris during their youth.
ReplyDeleteThey are leaving California taking everything of value. They are leaving nothing from their labors to enrich the state.
ReplyDeleteto do that they'd need to burn down the house and sift the ashes for nails...
DeleteThing of beauty. Unless it's a New York City family moving into your southern neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteMoving companies like to up sell the box and they have them sized to fit their vans perfectly. I will bet that many of those boxes are filled very ineffeciently, such as one of Susie's bears in one big box with nothing else in it.
ReplyDeleteWe used a pack it yourself trailer when we moved. Luckily, we had a retired veterinarian friend help us who had put himself through school working for a moving company. His back may have lost a lot over the years but his eye was spot on. His packing job was a thing of beauty though, unlike that truck, it got a bit ragged at the end. Things like bicycles are not neat.
ReplyDeleteWe did the same when we moved out here. I had just retired from a job where I loaded semi-trailers for the last 10 years, so the front of the trailer looked really nice. Once I started loading the furniture though, it wasn't pretty - I just stacked it the best I could. Towards the tail, it was a mess.
DeleteMilitary move......packed up an full ashtray real nice with paper and bubble wrap.
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And full trash cans. Been there done that.
DeleteHa! I think this happens to literally everyone in the military. I had a full trash can packed and delivered on my ETS move. Luckily, it was winter and everything was frozen solid.
DeleteA powder & primers delivery?
ReplyDeleteNicely done image painted on the rear doors.
ReplyDeleteDefiant
The rear doors are open, look closer.
DeleteWith the rear closed they loaded from the side door.
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If that's real, they've blocked the rear door with boxes jammed against it. . .Okay, never mind. Just looked at the bigger image, and they are split hinged doors folded back against the truck body. My eyes aren't what they used to be. Great packaging job.
ReplyDeleteIn the past 50 years or so, I have moved at least 15 times. I may be forgetting one or two. I always had some sort of trailer and even though others would ask me to help them move and I always would, when it came time for me to move there wasn't a soul around to help. So, I bought a furniture dolly from Harbor Freight and cut some plywood longwise for ramps and I learned all the tricks. I have had five wives and I trained each one of them how to be a good mover's helper. Some had a knack for it others didn't. I have never been a big muscular brute of a man so I had to learn how to use leverage, wheels and rope ties to help move stuff.
ReplyDeleteYa ever try to move a Hide-A-Bed couch? If you don't know how to tie it right it will open on you just about the time you are halfway through the front door.
Mattresses aren't bad because you can kinda fold them to get through doors and then a tight turn down a flight of stairs...but then the box spring (if all in one piece) has to do some "furniture yoga" to move through tight turns and spaces.
Loading the pick-up bed and the trailer was my job. Sometimes I would have a 24 foot box truck rental. All the same, you had to be able to look at item and know where it was going to fit.
Then there was the heavy stuff on bottom and the light stuff on top. Women had a tough time figuring that one out. Never could understand that. It was if they thought "if it all fits in a box then it can go anywhere". A box full of books no one will ever read and weighs near 100 pounds does not belong on top of the box of glass nick-nacks.
With this last wife I have lived in this one house longer than any house ever, and I am hating this POS. I have told her I am ready to move again, this time I'll hire some young Mexican boys, they make good movers (I have hired some before...but you have to get the ones who live in the country not the city).
All in time.