Kurt helped Alan disassemble his roller coaster for the trip.
After getting a quote from a full-service moving company ($16,000), we opted for the ABF freight model. They bring a 28' trailer to your house and you load it. You pay by the number of 7' increments you use. We estimated needing 42' so we'd swap trailers after the first was loaded, and use 14' of a second one. Then you put up a plywood bulkhead that remains there until you unload it at the other end. ABF takes the loaded trailer back to its terminal, fills up the remaining length with commercial loads, and sends the trailers off to their destinations. Our total cost was around 8K.
Our friends were so wonderful to help us out with packing up the ABF trucks. THANK YOU!
Kurt helped Alan disassemble his roller coaster for the trip.
After finding out that we couldn't park the ABF trailers
by Casino Storage where we had 2 10x10 storage units,
we rented a U-Haul truck to transport the contents of the
units back to our garage.
Here's one of the units -- the other one was even more
tightly packed.
The crew, which included Sarah, Sarah McGreevy and boyfriend,
Kurt, Jenny, and John, were a great help at getting all those
boxes back to the house. We piled them anywhere they would
fit: the garage, and then the living room.
Then several days later it was time to pack them on the cross-country ABF trailers.
Andy and Glen bring out the TV, still in the entertainment
unit because it was a tight fit to get the TV in there, so
we decided not to try to take it back out.
John and Andy take a heavy load up the ramp.
Sarah came home for the weekend to help us pack.
Glen tied down the table saw so it wouldn't shift.
First trailer packed.
Deb brought over dinner, both nights that we were packing.
She got KFC the first time, and pizza and Wood Ranch stuff
the second night.
We picnicked in the driveway.
Glen and Keith, good buddies.
Andy, Molly, John: more dear friends.
Placing the bulkhead at the 14' mark on the second trailer.