How to Move Moderate size toolbox?

[DeviousK5]

Well my job hunt is now over ,a semi local dealer has hired me Pending Pee test results(cross fingers). Now i have a issue that i never have had. In the last 5 years of me being at my current shop i have bought a larger 2 bank roll cab, and added a side box.

Previously I had a much smaller box that when emptied was moved with a TJ wrangler and once in the trunk of my old sedan deville

The dealer that i am going to has a forklift on site

Ours here is out on loan for god knows how long

My brother is willing to move it with his truck and a tilt deck gooseneck trailer....But i have no way to get it onto the trailer, as it is a tall deck with ramps for a Bobcat.

Whats a guy to do?

 

[British Slave]

How about bring the Bobcat with the trailer?

 

[texas4x4rebel]

U-haul has a trailer that drops down to ground level so you can just roll it in then it goes back to ride height.

 

[yellowK20]

Hire a rollback

 

[nvrenuf]

Most of the guys at the dealer I worked at used a rollback from store to store. Most of the time the service manager could call in a favor from the preferred towing company to get it done.

 

[British Slave]

Or maybe take the fork lift from the new job by trailer to the old job, load the box,then unload the box and forklift at the new job....

 

[sweetk30]

rollback tow truck.

make sure your drawers are locked . and nothing inside will tip over or bang all over the place.

but make sure you get a guy thats moved toolboxes before. not just some new guy.

 

[zombie1969]

My current job has a flat bed so I just drove it over and grabbed my box but usually use my landscape trailer.I have to put a piece of plywood on the ramp because the stretched steel cant hold the load of the box but no biggie.

 

[sweetk30]

try movin this by hand

10ft wide x 6ft tall x 30" deep . empty no tools = around 2500 lbs.

only way to move it is a rollback with winch.

 

[ryoken]

I did.. and mine has the top box... by myself, with a forklift into my K5.. one piece at a time... then I had to unload each piece at the house by hand... imagine trying to get your bottom box out of a Blazer bed by yourself....

I've also done the roll-off.. I highly recommend that route..

 

[Stomis]

Lol my work box just squeezes in the back of my car. Its huge for me considering I got my first 26in tool box last fall and just bought a 42in top box last week for work.

That being said no forklift just call the rollback as said.

 

[gotblazers]

rollback tow truck.

make sure your drawers are locked . and nothing inside will tip over or bang all over the place.

but make sure you get a guy thats moved toolboxes before. not just some new guy.

Thats how everyone at my shop does it

 

[MJB774X]

have your tool guy move it, if it'll fit in his truck

 

[ssyork]

When I was a tool guy I moved boxes for guys all the time, for beer that is. If it was out of my area I just ask for some fuel $$. Nothing crazy.

 

[82355]

try movin this by hand

10ft wide x 6ft tall x 30" deep . empty no tools = around 2500 lbs.

only way to move it is a rollback with winch.

I have the same sized box, and I have moved it a couple of times without a rollback or a winch. The last time I used a tilt deck car trailer, that was a bitch getting it onto the trailer. Took five of us to push it on there. Unloading it wasn't much fun either.

That being said, make the dealer who sold it to you move it. They usually will.

Martin

 

[thatsmrpyro2u]

i dont have a box at my job mines at the house, but we moved my brothers just a cheap harbor freight and it took 4 of us to put in in the truck empty...awkward not heavy. but i know all my buddys get their tool guys to move them.

 

[sweetk30]

I have the same sized box, and I have moved it a couple of times without a rollback or a winch. The last time I used a tilt deck car trailer, that was a bitch getting it onto the trailer. Took five of us to push it on there. Unloading it wasn't much fun either.

That being said, make the dealer who sold it to you move it. They usually will.

Martin

dealer truck wont even have a hint of trying to lift that on the lift gate. those lift gates are rated to around 3k lbs .

 

[DeviousK5]

have your tool guy move it, if it'll fit in his truck

Damn , why didn't i think of that. I only owe the Snap-on man around 3k . And he lives between the 2 shops, and is the dealer at that dealership as well. Im gonna hit him up a little later


And no ..yeah it'd be a cold day in hell before i could imagine this thing in the back of my k5 , let alone getting the sob out of there.

Ryoken if you have pics of that affair i'd die to see em lol

 

[82355]

dealer truck wont even have a hint of trying to lift that on the lift gate. those lift gates are rated to around 3k lbs .

Most of the Snap On dealers around here have a small enclosed trailer made for moving tool boxes.

Martin

 

[Smokinthehippies]

i was thinking maybe renting a penkse type moving truck, the last one i used had a lift gate. dont know the weight rating tho. but would def talk to tool man first.