He's comin to my town rock rock rock.

[reddragdiva]

I do not have a third of a ton of vinyl records. I have just under half a ton of vinyl records. 440kg of records and other personal effects are sitting on a pallet in a warehouse in Felixstowe, accumulating assorted because-we-can charges. My aunt in Amersham has offered to put them up for me, but woohoo! She's moving house in early June, about the same time we plan to! Tomorrow I call self-storage places around Walthamstow and then try to work out which is a less worse idea.

I could also do with ideas on getting it from Felixstowe to either Amersham or Walthamstow ... my aunt's Mondeo is unlikely to be suited to the task.

In any case, *pint*s by the cartonload to ozjester for having stored the damned things so long and for his superlative and/or lucky choice of shipping company such that they got here intact. One day soon ... I will play my vinyl again.

Oh, and Saint Chav has been considerably extended by the efforts of abigailb. I've also added a 17th century lithograph of St. Chav's Cathedral in Lakeside, Essex.

Comments

[vatine]

Do you have a fork lift? Or a pallet truck and an LGV with a powered lip at teh back?

If the answer to both of those are "no", it cannot possibly be left undisturbed through the loading process. Simple as that.

If it'd been a wee bit less than 440 kg (say, 100 kg), it could, possibly, have been done with enough people and some rope (build a carry-sling with at least 4, ideally 6-8 carry positions, get a ramp, lift and walk it in and out). But at 440 kg, there is probably not enough room (I am thinking a standard "B" or "EUR" pallet here) to do that and you'd end up with some seriously fucked-up spines.