Over the next 72 hours, approximately 250,000 people will be moving into or relocating within the greater Boston area. If you belong to this group and own heavy furniture, may we strongly recommend the miraculous refrigerator-grade, heavy-duty dolly...
We recently purchased this solid wood card catalog on Craigslist and knew there was no earthly way we would be moving it anywhere without A.) a small army of gladiators or B.) a serious dolly. Most hardware stores provide affordable rental rates for a wide variety of large tools and appliances. When we asked for a dolly, our guys asked, "What are you moving?" When we replied, "A solid wood, 5'-tall card catalog," they instructed us to take the refrigerator-grade model.
Heavy-duty, slip-proof strap, parking breaks, and thick bumper pads for going up and down stairs, this Dolly does not mess around. You could possibly relocated a small shed with this thing. We still had to remove all of the dovetail drawers (60 of them) to even get the thing to budge, but once we had two legs on good old Dolly, it was actually quite simple to move around.
This dolly will be a serious lifesaver for those readying to move any form of super heavy, upright furniture and do not possess the aforementioned gladiator brigade. We recommend going to smaller, neighborhood hardware stores first, like Connelly Hardware in Washington Square. Our 24-hour dolly rental cost $9.
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Comments (7)
yeap, it's the fall semester moving time in Boston. for the past 2 weeks here in cambridge, the streets have been lined with moving vans, uhauls, station wagens, etc. parking is more atrocious than usual with lots of fender benders occurring. dollies are indispensable!
I just bought a heavy duty dolly off of craigslist. There are a number listed for under $50, and I figure I can use it when I move this September (from Framingham to Maynard, a regular house move, not a college move) and then resell it or pass it along to the next person I know who is moving. The rental places seem to want about $10/day, so if I use this one for more than 2 days I'm saving money...
And rather than try to rent a truck for Labor Day weekend, we're doing it the weekend after, when most of the college truck rentals are past...
Those can seriously screw up your wood floors.
Try the Forearm Forklift instead:
http://www.amazon.com/Above-All-L74995CN-Forearm-Forklift/dp/B00005TPUZ/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
20 Bucks, and it rolls up in a drawer for anytime you need to move something.
Moving day in Boston! Time to go trash-picking!
Any time I move I always get one of these. U-Haul rents them for about $10, defiantly worth it if you have any bulky furniture you have to move around. The pads on the back make it so easy to go up and down stairs with. If you can find it cheap snatch it up, they take no room to store and are invaluable.
I just moved here to Boston, specifically Davis Square, within the past year. This is my first time in watching the "September purge" as I like to call it. It's been funny to watch nearly the entire city of apartments, vomit their old crap onto the sidewalks and have a new truck-load of new stuff waiting in to be hauled in to fill them back up.
The street pickin's have been excellent! I imagine some people gave up on on trying to sell items at a bloated price on craigs and now it's for free on the street... But maybe that's just me and my bitterness talking about Boston's trend of posters overvaluing the worth of their used furniture. I mean, if I wanted to pay near retail price for you're used junk, I would have bought it myself, brand new from the store... which is more often than not, IKEA. that's my rant, just sayin'
I'm too late, I was going to suggest the forearm forklift but bepsf beat me to it.