What does your garage/shop weigh?

[Too_Many_Tools]

Ever wonder?

Why would you even care?

Well if you ever have to move long distance, they charge by the pound.

So...what do you think the contents of your garage/shop weigh?

 

[peterbilt89]

200000 tons

 

[c39er]

50,000 lbs of cars and trucks- (9) 40's 50's cars and a 4 ton Dodge FB. 7000 lbs of 4 post lifts. Another 7-8000llbs of tools/equipment. Close to 60,000lbs.

 

[Too_Many_Tools]

200000 tons

LOL..ever plan on moving?

Or will they entomb you under the car lift in the oil sump.

 

[Steevo]

I moved mine myself, because I wasn't going to pay the per pound price.
I'd bet it is easily 10-15 tons.

 

[Falcon67]

My slab is about 68,000 lbs. Not sure about the rest of it - 12,000~15,000 maybe, more or less.

 

[peterbilt89]

LOL..ever plan on moving?

Or will they entomb you under the car lift in the oil sump.

not moving

 

[1953mercury]

Too much work to add it up, but it's way up there. Biggest move will be when they carry my ashes up to the top of the rim rocks to spread them over the property, or the neighbors place if the wind is blowing the wrong way. Mike

 

[ears]

I moved mine myself, because I wasn't going to pay the per pound price.
I'd bet it is easily 10-15 tons.

You're in the majority.

20 plus years of moving long distance I don't think I've ever had more than about 10,000 pounds out of a shop. That's with a 4 post lift. The type of people who own a lot of shop stuff move it themselves and don't move long distance often. It's a good thing. The weights nice but I don't like the nasty stuff on my truck.

Moved a machine shop locally once. Two straight trucks just to get heads and blocks. About ten loads in total. Plus what the riggers hauled.

 

[CNGsaves]

Need to read the full post by TimeWarpF100 as he did this very thing.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=147380&highlight=resto

He actually bought a OTR tractor AND 48 ft trailer so he could move all his stuff from WA to AZ.

Do what he did if you have massive stuff . . . . or you could buy your own OTR trailer and hire a trucker to haul it for you. Least cost way would be finding trucker that had "dead head" or empty run between same two cities that you'll be moving between. Good luck!

 

[OccupantRJ]

What I did when I moved was bought a forklift and 40 foot OTR trailer. Loaded the trailer to the max, then hired to have it moved by a road tractor equipped with wrecker tags. Had another garage move the forklift on a rollback. Move was 30 miles. Kept the trailer for storage. Kept the forklift. Trailer was $700, forklift was $1,800, towing was $240 for two pulls, purchases and towing all done through friends. Pays to have the right connections when you have heavy iron.

 

[ears]

ABF and others will drop a freight trailer at your house you load it then they drop it at your new house. If you have a CDL you can rent a tractor trailer and do it all yourself. Some people buy trucks just for a move then sell it. Works real well if you're coming out of Ca. Careful what you bring in though.

Household estimator can give you a price for a few weights. Lot of factors but the first pound is the most expensive. If you have 15000 pounds of household another 10000 on the same trailer will probably be cheaper than any other method short of a truck or trailer that you already own.

 

[crewchief888]

i moved my tools and toolboxes 1200 miles about 15 years ago.

all i know it was a rough ride with the uhaul sitting on the bump stops the whole way

and i have more stuff now.

when we bought this house i told the wife, "i aint moving again, just bury me in a cardboard box in the backyard"

i moved all my garage tools about 5 miles to my shop, 2 years later, i moved them all back, along with my undrivable s-10 blazer.
only help i had was with the truck
i'd load my truck and trailer on sat morning, and spend the rest of the weekend trying to figure out where to put everything.. tools and eq took me 3 weekends, scrap run and moving the truck took another weekend

 

[Too_Many_Tools]

BIG difference between moving 30 miles and 3000 miles..better plan for it in this economic climate.

 

[GShelton]

360,180 lbs of concrete alone.

 

[c39er]

I thought the weight of the contents of the garage was the question. If not then my 6" slab and the earth below it is over 700,000 tons. I don't want to take it with me when I move.

 

[lilscorpion]

Dunno, but I can tell you this. I moved two years ago and it took one long day to move our entire house and three stupid long days to move the garage. It was more painful than I could have ever guessed. I have a lot of tools and equipment but I never could have guessed it would have been like it ended up...and I thought I did it a fairly smart way too...stuffs heavy, cumbersome, and difficult to move quickly.

 

[38Chevy454]

I moved about 1100 miles 3 years ago. I filled my COE flatbed up, a small utility trailer behind that; and then my dually pickup pulling my car trailer that was loaded with garage stuff at least 6000 lbs worth. That was about most of the heavy stuff from the garage. Not including lighter stuff the movers took, and not including any vehicles. I would say that I easily have over 12,000 lbs of just tools and car/house stuff I moved myself. Tools are very heavy and can be very bulky to box up or package for moving. I do not have any lathe or mill, just standard car stuff. I left a lot of my big stuff like several engines, trans, rearends, and big car parts back at my old house in storage. Still need to deal with that someday.

I drove 3 vehicles out total, and had 4 hauled by car hauler.

I have more **** now and I think I would do the OTR trailer rental plan now for all my garage stuff. Load it up and have someone else drive it to a new place.

No matter what, moving a big garage is a lot of work.

 

[Too_Many_Tools]

I moved about 1100 miles 3 years ago. I filled my COE flatbed up, a small utility trailer behind that; and then my dually pickup pulling my car trailer that was loaded with garage stuff at least 6000 lbs worth. That was about most of the heavy stuff from the garage. Not including lighter stuff the movers took, and not including any vehicles. I would say that I easily have over 12,000 lbs of just tools and car/house stuff I moved myself. Tools are very heavy and can be very bulky to box up or package for moving. I do not have any lathe or mill, just standard car stuff. I left a lot of my big stuff like several engines, trans, rearends, and big car parts back at my old house in storage. Still need to deal with that someday.

I drove 3 vehicles out total, and had 4 hauled by car hauler.

I have more **** now and I think I would do the OTR trailer rental plan now for all my garage stuff. Load it up and have someone else drive it to a new place.

No matter what, moving a big garage is a lot of work.

Big, bulky, heavy...and needs a place to be put on the receiving end ASAP...it can't sit on the driveway or in the moving van.

That is why one needs to have the logistics planned ahead of time.

One route I suggested to a guy is to place the shop/garage stuff in the garage and the overflow in one of these moving containers located on the receiving site. A much less optimal solution is to have storage units rented ahead of time at the receiving site...which is then off site from the house but one does not have a forklift/material handling capabilities available.

 

[ConCretin]

The house and garage together weigh about 3 million pounds but I'm not going to try and move them anytime soon. Whose idea was it to build a concrete house anyway?

 

[tskills10]

3 years ago I moved into a new house and had to move all of my garage stuff. I made 3 trips using my pickup and my 18' trailer. And I still have a few things (Parts) left at the old house that I have to go get since the house finally sold. I am planning on moving everything once more, but that will be when I get my new garage/shop built. Other than that I told the wife I'm done moving, I'm dying in this house.

 

[Too_Many_Tools]

LOL...I sense a certain denial in some of our posters...you will move..not IF but WHEN.

 

[NUTTSGT]

More than some but less then others.

 

[crewchief888]

LOL...I sense a certain denial in some of our posters...you will move..not IF but WHEN.

nope, i'm not moving again

and she knows it

we looked for 3 or 4 years before we both found a house we could live with, without doing a complete interior demolition

passed on more than one house that had a great garage space, but the house/location wasn't worth 1/2 the asking price.

maybe one day i'll build a new garage right behind the old one, and demo the existing 19x22...

 

[GShelton]

I won't be moving either. Built the place with my own 2 hands and refuse to leave.

 

[Milton Shaw]

When we got married in 1970 we moved in an apartment with 2 pickup trucks and a station wagon load, out of it two years later with 2 pickup and two station wagons into a house with shop. Moved out of it 2 years later with two pickup trucks, 2 station wagon loads and 13,000 lbs in a moving van. Now after 38 years in the same place with larger better shop and a lot of toys probably 100,000 lbs plus in house and shop not counting trailers, bobcats etc. Still probably have some boxes still packed from 38 years ago in the attic. (college books etc).

 

[samthedog]

Since I will be moving internationally at some stage I have had to impose a weight limit for individual items of 600 kg. I have a metal lathe and a mill that weigh about 550 kg each. In total I am guessing I would have about 3500 kg of equipment now. After the last move (just moved 150 km), I thinned out my tool collection to just items I have used regularly or items I see myself using in the immediate future.

The good thing about an international move is that you need to pay extra for heavy items to be moved, but you don't have a max weight limit. It's all about the volume and the size of the shipping container you choose.

Paul.