Moving a 240 Northern NJ

[cincity]

The problem is not the weight, tank/stand/canopy togather is 900+ its the 8ft tank going on a 3x5 lift gate with a hand truck. now they tell me they will have to butt two lift gates togather to get it off lol..

 

[dxdx]

Well, if that happens to me, I'll be trying anything and everything to get it off the truck at my house. As I said, I had a 900lbs load of drywall which was 8'x4' come off a FedEx Freight truck with no problem.

... I'm just telling myself that so I don't stress too much, I'm sure you tried what you could....

 

[Chromobotia]

The problem is not the weight, tank/stand/canopy togather is 900+ its the 8ft tank going on a 3x5 lift gate with a hand truck. now they tell me they will have to butt two lift gates togather to get it off lol..

When my 8 ft tank was delivered 2 guys were able to get it off the truck. I don't know what size the lift gate was but the tank was on it diagonally with alittle hanging over the edge. They were able to use a dolly jack on one end and a hand truck on the other to get it into my garage. I give those guys a lot of credit for being able to get it done.

 

[dxdx]

Were the tank and stand wrapped together as one big unit?

 

[cincity]

Yes its all put together just like it would be in my house on a pallet. Only one guy with a hand truck no way it was comming off the back of that truck..

 

[dxdx]

Yeah, that would be pretty scary seeing one guy try to offload all that. I didn't realize they'd ship it all set up like that.


I'm still holding out hope I won't have this problem since I didn't get the stand. Feeling better about going the diy route on that.

For moving it into the house, you may want to try and find volunteers from mfk, and a whole lotta heavy-duty suction cups.