Install a anchor at the past the top of the stairs. Or get some kind of box you can put at the top of the stairs when your ready you can throw elevators weights or sandbags on to make a temp anchor you can put away when done. Get a couple planks that run the length of the stairs. Go buy a electric wench anf hook it all up.
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What makes anyone think if it's not OK to have the cabs upstairs it will be ok to mount a winch, or it's supports, to the wall or floor upstairs? I vote for off-site storage. The smallest space should be pretty inexpensive.
Notice where I said I would use an electric winch to haul those babies up the ramp, or at the very least a boat trailer winch
The OP has already been dragging these huge cabs up and down the stairs as it is. A plywood ramp HAS to be better than sliding the cabs up on cardboard.. The OP loves his heads and cabs despite their size and I get that. Myself I use a Rumble 200 and can carry it up the basement stairs with one hand.
Notice where I said I would use an electric winch to haul those babies up the ramp, or at the very least a boat trailer winch
The OP has already been dragging these huge cabs up and down the stairs as it is. A plywood ramp HAS to be better than sliding the cabs up on cardboard.. The OP loves his heads and cabs despite their size and I get that. Myself I use a Rumble 200 and can carry it up the basement stairs with one hand.
Except with a ramp the op has to WALK ON THE RAMP......
Otherwise, you suggested he do it manually. So....walking on a steep, plywood ramp manipulating 150+ lbs.
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No he doesn't. He can winch them up from the top of the stairs. When not in use the ramp is folded away. Anyway it's his choice as to how he wants to move them, whether it's to build a fold down ramp, buy a stair climber or move to a house that's all on on one level. the only reason I suggested what I did is because in my old motocross days I built a fold down plywood ramp in my townhouse so I could wheel my MX bikes up and down the basement stairs. Mind you, the bikes had brakes
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My 360s get up and down stairs like that on an appliance hand truck with rollers for stairs.
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It is still a bit awkward. That stair walker thing looks great. Not perfect, but a huge improvement.
It is still a bit awkward. That stair walker thing looks great. Not perfect, but a huge improvement.
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Neo speakers might be a consideration worth investigating. Not sure if any will go in those particular cabs.Here is my challenge, summed up in two pictures.
After humping these up and down the stairs for a while now with the help of a cheap moving dolly and, occasionally, my wife, a new approach is needed. Here are the three I'm considering.
1. Refrigerator dolly with stair tracks
2. Long sheet of cardboard placed on stairs, cab laid down, and pushed upwards as cardboard is folded up and over.
3. Some sort of pulley/come-along mechanism to pull laid-down cab up the stairs.
Or......?
Anybody with relevant moving or engineering experience is invited to weigh in with constructive suggestions. In particular, how feasible is #1 above for a single person?
NOTE: if your suggestion in any way entails "downsizing," it will not be relevant to this discussion. Thanks.
Option 1 might be a good start, depending on how much fridge dollies with stair tracks cost.
For option 3, if you live near a college, maybe put up a flier for a project for one of their mechanical engineering students. Offer some pay, of course.
It's beautiful.
Did none of you folks already have the big cabs when you met your spouses?
Eh, if I ever am, she'll probably be another musician/artist type, or something. I honestly don't see myself getting married, at this point. I guess I just don't understand why if someone's serious enough about their music to have a fairly large rig, why they would marry someone who didn't like that aspect of their life.Spoken like a guy who's never been married.
My wife loves it. She just doesn't want a living room full of basses and amps. Can't say I blame her.
My wife is very supportive and shares my love of music. Im lucky she lets me "drag in" the old iron I collect buy (edit: but) there are limits and compromises (and that's the way it should be ).
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Yep. My wife a violinist, btw. Her violin is a medium-grade professional instrument that, fortunately, still cost more than my used Ken Smith BT-5.
Wow, I actually learned something about hand-carts. Thanks. Haven't watched all the videos yet, but that little Up-Cart or something similar might be handy -- I don't have a fridge or an acoustic 360, but I do carry everything up and down a long flight of stairs to and from my apartment. Start of the evening, warm day, not so bad. 2:00 a.m. when it's cold and icy out (stairs are indoors, but to and from the car), not so fun.
There's all sorts of solutions out there, if you've got the money. Pretty clever ideas.
That motorized tank -- the Skipper? -- pretty cool. Soon as they make one that talks and responds to voice commands, I'm in.
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How about a trailer that you leave them in all the time.
That was the solution for a DJ service a buddy and I operated in the 70's.
That was the solution for a DJ service a buddy and I operated in the 70's.