Ways youve gotten a large tank home?

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bassfisher91 said:
When I was a car-less college kid living in st Louis missouri I once walked four miles to pick up a uhaul cargo van. I then drove, alone, 15 miles to a less than perfect neighborhood in what was then "the most dangerous city in America" to pick up a 120 long. I got the tank loaded up and didnt get mugged in the process. I drove back to my apartment(which didn't allow fish tanks lol) to find that the service elevator was shut down. I pulled the van right up to the front of the apartment complex and somehow got that (seemingly massive) tank on a dolly and wheeled it through the lobby right past the doorman and the property manager and into the elevator. Oh, and I got it through a revolving door as well lol. Never have I felt so awkward. I managed to get the tank and the stand up to my room and I dropped off the truck, walked 4 miles back( this was in July as well and it was at least 95 degees out). I think part of me died that day. The things I did for my fish.
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Picturing this in my head made me lmao!


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4 hour drive, made it just fine. 90 gal ontop, 180 in the back.

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Picking up my 125g (72x18x23) and stand, and 200lbs of gravel( in 4 trash bags), and filter (fluval fx5), and lids, and decorations (2 large pieces of driftwood) and lights (2 36" T8) - 300 miles away in my 08 Rav4. Pushing the seats up to the point that my skinny ass (5'7 150 lbs) was up on the steering wheel, my buddy was sitting indian style with his head on the dash board and the swinging rear door was tied with seran wrap 5 inches open to fit it all in there. That my friends, was not a fun 5 hour drive back.

Not a bad deal though for $500 but I did break one of the versa tops.

Basically everything you see here was what I packed into my Rav4.
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Picked up my 10x2.5x2.5, 1 inch thick acrylic 4.5 hrs away with a UHaul trailer, 10 mins into the return voyage home my alternator crapped out .... walked a couple miles to a Walmart bought a battery, lugged it back, got the car to a motel for the night (happened on a Sunday evening of course so no auto shops were open) then got the alternator fixed in the morning and got it home ..... 6 of us lugged it around my house and down through my bilco doors into the basement .... on that note I will never move from this house so I don't have to go through moving that thing again. .... funniest part is I dragged the fiance with me .... let's just say she was not very happy! Lol!

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Moved a 8*2*2 with a pickup. 6' bed with a 2' tailgate down. Padding between truck cab and tank, cargo strap around the opposite side holding it in. No problem
 
Guess I go in the easy peasy section...I used a friends van to bring home my 180...by myself.and a few years later I had to get a UHAUL van for my 265.Most of the smaller tanks were either carried home or placed on the back seat of my car.
 
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