Posted on 05/16/2011 9:39:11 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
Reminds me of my move where I later told my brother: “It was like having a crew of ex convicts in the house”. His reply: “What do you mean “like”?
“longer-distance moves is calculated by weight. So, if you have quite a library of books”
Don’t I know it.
Estimate was based on a count of boxes.
Price was based on a weigh of boxes.
Biiiiiig difference in my case.
Methinks next time I’ll just buy a truck, use it, and sell it. Net should be near $0.
Speaking of antiques.
My dad gave me a bunch of antique woodworking tools worth quite a sum of money. Beautiful hand tools and I was the only one of his sons who loved woodworking.
Anyway, right after I graduated and received my Commission I had to PCS real fast. My parents had to supervise the packing and movement of my stuff and all those beautiful tools disappeared with no trace nor mention on the packing list.
I know of someone who moved from Michigan to Oregon and ended up finding out the movers were scammers. They held all her things in a secret place so they could get more money. I got in touch with my friend in Michigan who is a PI and he was able to track down her things and get them back to her. He tricked the scammer guy into fedexing the key to her belongings so my friend could take pics of her belongings and reassure her these are hers (LOL!!) before she paid more money that he was asking for. Once the guy sent the key, my investigator friend sent him a link to this:
Who is Yosef Ashdot, aka- Joseph Ashdot, Accurate Movers & Josh Avramovich of Reliance Relocation?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV2FySLMxNc
I moved furniture for a year in college. We had to move a baby grand out of an upstairs bedroom. We got to the turn in the landing, and no matter how we tried, we couldn’t get it out. The lady of the house kept telling us that “that’s how it went up there”. We tried some more but no luck, and told her they must have torn out part of the ceiling. She was adament, but we left it for later.
When her husband got home, he said “Don’t you remember? We had to knock that corner out of the ceiling? He got a hammer and skill saw and cut it out!
And agreed, most of the other guys that I worked with on the crew were trouble. I was fresh out of college - probably learned more about real life and people in that year of moving than I did in 4 years of college!
Oh Cripes, that’s a Bösendorfer piano. Talking just barely into six figures.
I live through several military moves. The best two moves I had were my return from Okinawa, not a thing was missing nor broken, and a move from VA to Yuma, AZ and that company was Interstate. One set of men packed the household gear and a different team loaded it on the truck. Again nothing missing nor broken..The worst move I had was from Yuma AZ to VA..My teakwood curio hutch was stolen along with some boxes. It was a small move in terms of gear and there was one other household on that same van. Woud North American try to track this piece I could not replace? Hell no and the warehouse where my household gear was stored for 1 week would not look either. Did I veto this carrier to HQMC? You bet I did!
Then there’s those who decide to take a 150 mile side trip to share a few beers with their cousins and forget to show up with your stuff until hours later.
Most folks don’t know they may be dealing with four companies when they make a move. That consists of the folks who pack and load the truck, possibly the driver as an owner/operator of the rig contracted to the moving company, the moving company who coordinates and the company who unloads and maybe unpacks. It’s not the seemless operation you think.
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No, it looks like a Bosendorfer, which is among the best pianos crafted today. It makes Steinway look like a toy piano.
Great photos.
Need an Obama caption in there somewhere..
I, too, moved furniture when I was in college during the summer between junior and senior years. The crew was roughly one-half white college kids working a summer job and one-half black men and women who were year-round workers. There were some interesting social and job-related dynamics, to say the least. I learned a lot about work, people, and (most of all) what not to let others move when I changed jobs/locations in the future.
I was the only college kid. I would go with the packing crews too, and they were better than the actual movers. I recall one lady that had a whole bunch of china statures - 3-foot tall or so. She wanted to pack them herself, and she had them rolled up in sleeping bags. The other packers let her go.
I asked her if I could show her how we would pack them on just one of them. She was leery to let me touch it. After putting packing paper between the arms, legs, neck to give support, then more paper. Then into a box cushioned with paper, she said “Oh - you do them all!”
Even the gorilla’s doing the actual moving would have a hard time breaking them.
Our moves were done with “Pups” which are the smaller trailers
used on long haul trucking lines. You contract with the trucking line for “cube”, the pup having less than 30,000 lbs
inside. The trucking company will deliver the trailer as much
as a week in advance and you self load. We contact a wholesale paper and container company and buy a hundred boxes
all the same size, such as 20x20x20, plus several large bundles of news print. All the kitchen stuff is packed and
each box gets a colored label on several corners so you can
tell where the box goes with one glance. We rented a small
fork lift for two days and had everything loaded and packed
using padding rented from u-haul.
We moved from our large ranch in CO to OR this way using two
pups, the second holding machinery and a truck.
Once in OR, we had a week to unload and the total cost for
the entire move was less than three grand.
At least $250,000, (or more), if its a Bösendorfer Imperial CG.
Some movers may end up “disappeared” if that happened to my, (slightly souped-up), Baldwin SD-10
Sometimes it’s better not to ask.
I didn’t say moves were seamless..I just related the two that were the best moves and the one from hell..
I do not trust any moving company entirely.
“I do not trust any moving company entirely.”
That would be good advice for anyone.
I am so sorry.
I didn’t tell the whole story in my last post. This fool says, “you would love my house, it is full of antiques, that I got from my job.” I asked him, “what kind of antiques?” and he says, “like those wagon wheels you have”. !
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