Moving large tool boxes.

[SilverJimmy]

$300 to move a tool box? If I sold it to ya I moved it for ya to your new job, if you were still working in my area, No Charge! If not I would help you load it correctly so it didn’t get damaged in the move. I had a customer move to Florida for a couple years. He did what I suggested and his box didn’t get a scratch in over 4000 miles stuffed into a U-Haul trailer!

 

[2ndGearRubber]

$300 to move a tool box? If I sold it to ya I moved it for ya to your new job, if you were still working in my area, No Charge! If not I would help you load it correctly so it didn’t get damaged in the move. I had a customer move to Florida for a couple years. He did what I suggested and his box didn’t get a scratch in over 4000 miles stuffed into a U-Haul trailer!

Sadly I bought these from a previous dealer. 1 dealer got the 1033, another dealer got a 1032 and a locker, 3rd dealer got a locker. Current dealer wanted me to move into a Mr. Big, but it's too expensive for me. IDK if I'll ever make it into an Epiq, I have a pretty low investment in the current setup. Well low for snap on boxes.

 

[SilverJimmy]

Call the dealer who goes to your new shop, he might help you out, just cuz! My competitors never helped move guys boxes, maybe that’s why I made 30 years before I retired @ 57!

 

[olsenmotorsports]

Ive got some experiences moving boxes so I will chime in. First of all this shouldn’t be your financial obligation, Any shop worth its salt will pay to have your boxes moved for the opportunity to have you work for them. (That’s what we do) Just ask them. Guarantee they will say yes. As a business owner I have always offered to take care of that. If you are willing to invest in tooling then I am willing to invest to get that tooling into my store!

Second cribbing is your best friend here. A lot of these old wood or thin aluminum beds can handle the weight, but not as the load of a snap on box is distributed. (Through those thin 4” wheels). Once it is loaded just crib it for the ride and your ok. Keeps everything stable.

Third empty out your socket drawer as it is the heaviest, puller drawer if you have one too. Pelican cases work really nice for this.

When I closed my Naples store I sent everything back to my expanded Chicago store, part of that equipment haul was a 12’ long Mr Big and a couple of my roll around carts. Made the trip flawless.

Pelican case has all the sockets and puller’s in it.

Wheels removed from Epiq cart and paletized.

Yes a MR Big can be carried with a forklift!

All my tools loaded up and on the way


Now yes I am aware that everyone has different budgets, timeframes, etc. But I am the most **** person that ever walked the face of the earth! If I can get all this stuff scratch free accross country anyone can. Don’t bet nervous and don’t overthink it.

 

[2ndGearRubber]

Ive got some experiences moving boxes so I will chime in. First of all this shouldn’t be your financial obligation, Any shop worth its salt will pay to have your boxes moved for the opportunity to have you work for them. (That’s what we do) Just ask them. Guarantee they will say yes. As a business owner I have always offered to take care of that. If you are willing to invest in tooling then I am willing to invest to get that tooling into my store!

Second cribbing is your best friend here. A lot of these old wood or thin aluminum beds can handle the weight, but not as the load of a snap on box is distributed. (Through those thin 4” wheels). Once it is loaded just crib it for the ride and your ok. Keeps everything stable.

Third empty out your socket drawer as it is the heaviest, puller drawer if you have one too. Pelican cases work really nice for this.

When I closed my Naples store I sent everything back to my expanded Chicago store, part of that equipment haul was a 12’ long Mr Big and a couple of my roll around carts. Made the trip flawless.

Pelican case has all the sockets and puller’s in it.

Wheels removed from Epiq cart and paletized.

Yes a MR Big can be carried with a forklift!

All my tools loaded up and on the way


Now yes I am aware that everyone has different budgets, timeframes, etc. But I am the most **** person that ever walked the face of the earth! If I can get all this stuff scratch free accross country anyone can. Don’t bet nervous and don’t overthink it.

I've heard of that, but have never seen or heard of any business actually offering to move things in my area. Why would they move my stuff? I'm the one that needs the job, right?

I'm slowing becoming convinced I live in the Bermuda Triangle of crappy shops.

 

[AJHD]

I've heard of that, but have never seen or heard of any business actually offering to move things in my area. Why would they move my stuff? I'm the one that needs the job, right?

I'm slowing becoming convinced I live in the Bermuda Triangle of crappy shops.

I've also heard of it, but never seen it or experienced myself.
Every time I've moved into a shop or left it, and everyone else I've worked with who has done the same, has always paid with their own money to rent a van/truck/trailer/rollback (or used their own if they had one).

Along with getting raises, promotions, benefits, a higher starting pay or even just getting the job itself, I always seem to need them more than they ever seem to need me. After all, it's a privilege to be given the opportunity to perform physical labor in exchange for money, why should they fork out anything additional?

 

[bigfunwmu]

A few years ago, I had to move a gun safe or 2 and some other large stuff. I rented a 26 foot Penske box truck with a lift gate.

Ahead of time, I emptied everything out and put it in boxes on pallets. I got the safes up on 4x4s and lagged to them so they had a stable foot underneath them.

When it was moving time, I picked up the truck and drove to pick stuff up. Pallet jack and lift gate and got everything loaded in about an hour. Drove to the unload point, and about 20 minutes to get everything back off and indoors. Lot easier to put stuff in a building than a truck. Took the truck back to keep the rental time down and paid the 1/2 day rate instead of the full day rate.

I had about a day worth of time packing stuff up and another day worth of throwing junk out, and about a day worth of unpacking, and a few days worth of organizing once stuff was unpacked. Nothing broken, nothing lost, not a ton of money spent. With an enclosed truck, everything was protected from the weather and moving a couple large safes didn't attract any attention.

I wouldn't hesitate to do the same thing again to move toolboxes, safes, or whatever big & heavy stuff had to go.
As a bonus, if either end of your trip has a loading dock loading/unloading goes even faster and easier.

 

[Wrench97]

I've heard of that, but have never seen or heard of any business actually offering to move things in my area. Why would they move my stuff? I'm the one that needs the job, right?

I'm slowing becoming convinced I live in the Bermuda Triangle of crappy shops.

When I originally left the guy whose son I work for now, he lent me the roll off truck to haul my box to the Roadway shop, when I retired from there I used the straight truck the day before to haul the box back to the original shop.........

 

[CS454]

Two old coworkers (heavy line diesel) each moved their triples with locker/hutch on a rollback loaded with zero issue. Just wrapped with plastic and some moving blankets.

 

[olsenmotorsports]

I've also heard of it, but never seen it or experienced myself.
Every time I've moved into a shop or left it, and everyone else I've worked with who has done the same, has always paid with their own money to rent a van/truck/trailer/rollback (or used their own if they had one).

Along with getting raises, promotions, benefits, a higher starting pay or even just getting the job itself, I always seem to need them more than they ever seem to need me. After all, it's a privilege to be given the opportunity to perform physical labor in exchange for money, why should they fork out anything additional?

IDK, maybe it's just me. But I am so grateful to have the opportunity to get talented staff etc. We always offer. These types of things cost the company a couple bucks, but the optics of the gesture are everything to the employee and thats what matters to build culture. Comes back 10x IMHO.

 

[nicks78camaro]

We would also cover a reasonable cost to move toolboxes for a very desirable technician.

 

[mike93lx]

IDK, maybe it's just me. But I am so grateful to have the opportunity to get talented staff etc. We always offer. These types of things cost the company a couple bucks, but the optics of the gesture are everything to the employee and thats what matters to build culture. Comes back 10x IMHO.

Based on the quality of your work, this doesn't surprise me at all.

 

[olsenmotorsports]

Based on the quality of your work, this doesn't surprise me at all.

Thank you that is very kind of you to say!

 

[AJHD]

IDK, maybe it's just me. But I am so grateful to have the opportunity to get talented staff etc. We always offer. These types of things cost the company a couple bucks, but the optics of the gesture are everything to the employee and thats what matters to build culture. Comes back 10x IMHO.

Can you please share that with every other business owner, CEO and manager in the country? That'd be great, thanks.

Seriously, I'm only 1 guy and represent a hopefully small portion of the population, but I've literally had a manager who wouldn't buy paper towels and hand soap for the bathrooms. One shop I worked at the lifts would slowly drop if the "catch/lock" wasn't engaged to hold it up. That same shop also had lifts that didn't go down all the way, so we had to manually lift some cars just to get them onto the lift in the first place or jump up and down on the lift to get it all the way down when we raised them to clean the floors underneath (obviously without a vehicle on it). Last company I worked for had leaking ceilings and mold among many other issues.

Only a couple of examples I've personally experienced. After all, they have to cut costs and increase profits somehow. I've worked for some of the worst and cheapest companies and management you could think of. We're not human beings, we are resources to used and abused and replaced by newer/more obedient models.

 

[signcrafter]

I didn't read all the replies so may have been mentioned already but a drop deck trailer made for scissor lifts is perfect for moving boxes if you have a truck to pull the trailer. Or just go rent a truck for a few hours from home Depot or uhaul to pull the rented trailer.

 

[strength_and_power]

The drop deck trailers are quite nice. Around here the rental yards want you to have a 3/4 ton truck to rent them, but I suspect that varies with the rental yard.

Last time I had to move a big Lista tool box, we brought along some wood to put under the tool box to distribute the load and lift it off of the casters in the trailer. With some screws we then boxed it together so it would not shift. Worked great.

I use the drop deck trailers often for work ( safe moving). You will need a 3/4 truck ( enterprise rent a truck) you will also need a slide in hitch with a 2-5/16” ball ( the rent place will rent you this as well). Best to have the hitch reducer on hand, rental places are hit and miss with those. The trailers decks tend to be wavy because, “ hey, it’s a rental” . They also only have 6 D rings for tie down points. I’d use a bag of shop rags laid flat inside the drawers to lessen any banging around, a couple of $7.99 HF moving blankets and shrink wrap the outside and go.
I’d do the same thing going the Snap on route which is probably a lot less headache in the long run