Some strappings and a engine hoist?

The simple solution is to get the tow truck driver to sling the box one end at a time and load one end at a time into the u-haul. This is an open top trailer isn't it?

The first fallback option is to use an engine hoist to do the same thing. Lots more human power required for that option. You want me to bring my 2-ton engine hoist over?

The second fallback option is to use floor jacks to raise one end of the toolbox into the trailer, then jack up the other end of the box, block it up with the 2x6's until you can roll it onto the trailer.

I sold my lift and my engine hoist.  Your suggestions have given me some ideas, IF my floor jack can fit under the end of the box.  Jack up the box so two casters are about the height of the trailer, then back the trailer under the box. Then jack up other end and back the trailer under it.

Even If I have to use a 2x6 as a lever to incrementally raise the box and crib under it with wood, that should work.

Other ideas also appreciated!!!  Maybe an even better one will come along.

Have you paid your insurance this month?

Oh Boy!  You gotta take pics on this one!  Gotta see... Gotta see...

Two engine hoists, one on each end of the cabinet.
​I have a 12volt winch that pulled lawn mowers onto a trailer for my church.
​I have a collapsible 1-ton hoist and the winch if the Wednesday night thing happens.
​Whatever you decide, MS, be careful with your lower back,

I want to see pictures of the loading procedure..........

Don and I got it in the trailer by jacking up one end and then backing the trailer under it. Then used long 2x6 as lever to lift the tail end while pushing. After a couple of miscues, it went right in.

Getting it out was alot easier. I told the movers that the cash I was going to give them for a tip had been locked in the top drawer of the toolbox and I could not get to it until the box was out of my trailer. They grabbed the big ramp from their 18 wheeler and a very short time later, the box and my tractor were in the garage.  Work smarter, not harder!

New house has three car garage, and right now, NO cars can be parked inside.  I have got to get rid of more stuff, or get a new building built.

Will be happy to give my new address to anyone that would like to come by to visit. Just email.

Would this be a house warming party to move boxes around??

Stevo wrote:

I was curious Steve... What made you embark on this kind of move at this stage of life? Wouldn't you have put down roots in the Dallas area after all these years?

Probably to escape the rat race AKA Dallas!!

Have you SEEN Canyon Lake and the area around it? To use modern vernacular: OMG!
Austin is nearby for medical and social events. Deer that eat out of your hand on the back deck. Artists from all over with galleries and shows. MS can open a gallery for welded metalwork and make serious money. Check out Texas Monthly "Great Day-Drives in Texas" and you can stop in get MS to weld something for you.

Demographers say that unless college degrees and post-high school certificates increase dramatically, most of the upper-aged educated Texas Anglos will migrate to the three-county Austin-area over next 25 years. (Count me in!)

The way I see it, MS and Sherry are simply getting things set up for the rest of us.

There are lots of vacant homesites in the Ensenada Shores subdivision.  See it and you will believe.

66coupe, hope you can come by soon.