shaz, what do those stacks weigh empty? i`m bettin` 150-200#, lookin` good! tod
Hi Tod,
Thanks.
I think you are close to right, at your 200# guess. 1 full sheet 3/4" for the box, 1-3/4" sheet for the drawer sides, 2 1/2 sheets of 5'x5'x1/2" baltic birch for the floors, 1/2 sheet of 5'x5'x1/4" for the back, plus a quart of lacquer, give or take a drop, and several spills,
plus 9 pairs of K V 8505x 24", you know they weigh so much they only put 5 in the bulk pack instead of ten, and one pair of the 20" FE 100# drawer slides. I bet with that info either Art, or Frank or Greg can be real close to the exact weight that trapped my foot under the dolly when unloading it in the tight quarters of the Dentist's office.
I figured...lets load and deliver with drawers installed. Okay, dolly rolls to truck bed, tilt and if back is over wheels, cabinet supported, wheels roll, box lays on tail gate, we lift bottom and slide in. No problem. Same coming out of the truck. Okay, we are there and how do we get it off the dolly?
My thoughts, we have about 54" front to back, cabinet 24" deep, we leave the front of the box overhang the dolly enough to catch the other dolly, then when there, we slip second dolly under front of box lean forward, take out dolly number one, lower box that is teeter tottering on dolly number two til it contacts floor, tilt box back further, extract dolly number two lower box to floor,slide on linoleum and go away. All is fine till teeter totter and lean back stage when while on dolly leaning back, box hits wall, dolly can roll no more forward and box hasn't touched the ground yet, dolly has not started to raise up on the other end yet so I decided to help it, and "drop the box". Well I stuck my foot into the space in the middle of the dolly, to push on the cabinet so we could get the dolly out but the dolly rolled up the cabinet dropped and caught my foot under the dolly frame with the box still on an angle weighting down the dolly, just bearly on the floor in the back. I said " the box is on my foot , the box is on my foot." My buddy was helping think and looking somewhere else at the box, so he didn't hear me. You know the dentist's office is like a library, so you can't hollar.
"I EITHER GET MY FOOT OUT MYSELF OR I WILL STAY STUCK AND DIE HERE"
I said to myself quietly.
TO BE CONTINUED I got ta go to work..