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Re: How do you move cross-country? Bob_H_in_NH#1335818012/13/18 | |
R renegade50 Campfire 'Bwana | |
 renegade50 Campfire 'Bwana R Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 45,261 Likes: 50 | Always let the yard ape movers do it PCSing Moving with a wife and 2 elementary school age girls and one 2 yr old toddler girl was a pita..... Lucky if I could get 7 hours total of driving in each day. Cleaning up a 18 pd white hemmingway cat with extra claws all covered in cat piss cause he had an accident in his cage. Parked on the side of I-95 Last edited by renegade50; 12/13/18. |
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Re: How do you move cross-country? FatCity67#1335821212/13/18 | |
Birdwatcher Campfire 'Bwana | |
Birdwatcher Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 38,123 Likes: 20 | Originally Posted by FatCity67
Horses? Huh, must be rich folks, oxen run on grass. "...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744 |
Re: How do you move cross-country? renegade50#1335821512/13/18 | |
Birdwatcher Campfire 'Bwana | |
Birdwatcher Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 38,123 Likes: 20 | Quote Cleaning up a 18 pd white hemmingway cat with extra claws all covered in cat piss cause he had an accident in his cage. Parked on the side of I-95 Next to baths, travelling by automobile is most cat's favorite thing. "...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744 |
Re: How do you move cross-country? Birdwatcher#1335823712/13/18 | |
kid0917 Campfire Outfitter | |
kid0917 Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 12,359 | Originally Posted by Birdwatcher Quote Cleaning up a 18 pd white hemmingway cat with extra claws all covered in cat piss cause he had an accident in his cage. Parked on the side of I-95 Next to baths, travelling by automobile is most cat's favorite thing. ROFL! yeah.... |
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Re: How do you move cross-country? Clarkm#1335844112/13/18 | |
Sycamore Campfire Ranger | |
Sycamore Campfire Ranger Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 17,315 Likes: 4 | Originally Posted by Clarkm When my parents died, I had to move my brother out of their basem*nt and sell the house. In Eastern Montana we unloaded with the help of locals, dropped off the uhaul truck and stayed two days in Montana, where my brother got drunk and swam on the floor with a broken shoulder. Then we got on the Billings to Seattle flight, and my brother ordered drinks. Clark, there is a novel, or a movie, in your 3 paragraphs. Originally Posted by jorgeI ...Actually Sycamore, you are sort of right.... |
Re: How do you move cross-country? kid0917#1335846212/13/18 | |
R renegade50 Campfire 'Bwana | |
renegade50 Campfire 'Bwana R Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 45,261 Likes: 50 | Originally Posted by kid0917 Originally Posted by Birdwatcher Quote Cleaning up a 18 pd white hemmingway cat with extra claws all covered in cat piss cause he had an accident in his cage. Parked on the side of I-95 Next to baths, travelling by automobile is most cat's favorite thing. ROFL! yeah.... Elmo was a big cat Fugged up day I should just flung that fugger in front of a semi going by on the interstate. Hahahaha!!!! Took me 4 fugging days to drive from Maine to Ft Campbell Kentucky for gawd sakes..... What a fugging nightmare....... |
Re: How do you move cross-country? Bob_H_in_NH#1335847212/13/18 | |
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,119 Oklahomahunter Campfire Regular | |
Oklahomahunter Campfire Regular Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 2,119 | One of my employees just moved from OKC to Denver. Using the Pods and hiring a crew for a few hours on each side to move heavy items saved him over $10K versus using a moving van company. That’s the direction I’d go. |
Re: How do you move cross-country? Bob_H_in_NH#1335848912/13/18 | |
R renegade50 Campfire 'Bwana | |
renegade50 Campfire 'Bwana R Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 45,261 Likes: 50 | That cat ruled my lab Sonya when I got her as a pup. Elmo got paid back good many times over Get the kitty!!!!! |
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Re: How do you move cross-country? StoneCutter#1335851512/13/18 | |
RiverRider Campfire Outfitter | |
RiverRider Campfire Outfitter Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 14,518 Likes: 1 | Originally Posted by StoneCutter Personally, if I wasn't going to hire a mover, I get a POD or two. Or you could do this. This is the way it's done in the 21st century. Don't be the darkness. America will perish while those who should be standing guard are satisfying their lusts. |
Re: How do you move cross-country? Bob_H_in_NH#1335853212/13/18 | |
deflave Campfire Sage | |
deflave Campfire Sage Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 115,424 Likes: 13 | My last move was 2,700+. Self paid and U-Hauled. Family of five. Sometimes you just gotta get it done, son. Originally Posted by Geno67 Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Originally Posted by Judman Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. Originally Posted by KSMITH My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house |
Re: How do you move cross-country? Bob_H_in_NH#1335853412/13/18 | |
K kelbro Campfire Regular | |
kelbro Campfire Regular K Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 1,102 | Just did a 2200 mile move last year. Movers packed and loaded. Unloaded and unpacked. Driver was the 'foreman' on both ends. Moved the ammo and reloading stuff in my own vehicle. They did take several of the guns as long as they were locked up in the safe. I've done this a couple of times. Make sure they load the safe and rollaway tool chest on first so they can't get to it after the trailer is loaded. They would not take the Polaris Ranger Crew or the Boston Whaler. Had to tow those ourselves. Moving the wife's car in an enclosed trailer was $1 per mile. Total including the car was $24K. Last edited by kelbro; 12/13/18. |
Re: How do you move cross-country? kelbro#1335859512/13/18 | |
B BillyGoatGruff Campfire Ranger | |
BillyGoatGruff Campfire Ranger B Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 19,879 Likes: 42 | Originally Posted by kelbro Just did a 2200 mile move last year. Movers packed and loaded. Unloaded and unpacked. Driver was the 'foreman' on both ends. Moved the ammo and reloading stuff in my own vehicle. They did take several of the guns as long as they were locked up in the safe. I've done this a couple of times. Make sure they load the safe and rollaway tool chest on first so they can't get to it after the trailer is loaded. They would not take the Polaris Ranger Crew or the Boston Whaler. Had to tow those ourselves. Moving the wife's car in an enclosed trailer was $1 per mile. Total including the car was $24K. Holy fugg. I can't imagine paying 24 grand to movers. Different strokes MAGA |
Re: How do you move cross-country? Bob_H_in_NH#1335864412/13/18 | |
Riverhawk Campfire Regular | |
Riverhawk Campfire Regular Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 966 | Moved from TN to ID earlier this year. A lot of good advice already but here’s my two cents. I sold /gave away a lot of stuff and I wish I’d let more go. Penske was by far the cheapest option for me....26ft box truck, the biggest they rent. Don’t skimp on furniture blankets or rope. Pack it tight and tie it off or you’ll wish you did. Figure out how long you think the drive should take and add at least another full day. Plan your stops at specific hotels (as much as possible) and check into parking at those hotels, as parking at some of them is not big truck friendly. Don’t push it and try to move too late in the fall or early in the spring unless your move is in the South.....not fun to drive a fully loaded 26ft box truck over mountain passes in a blizzard. Don’t ask me how I know. I was fortunate to have a good friend who lives close to where I moved and he flew to TN/helped me pack the truck and drove my pickup along with me. My wife moved a few months later due to some business that had to be finished up in TN. I flew back and drove back to ID with her. I think the move would’ve been a lot more stressful if she and the dog had been tagging along with the big truck. If you can figure out a way to keep the moving truck caravan small it’s probably a good idea. By the way....I was able to keep it right around 5k that way, all up, including gas and hotels. |
Re: How do you move cross-country? Bob_H_in_NH#1335886612/13/18 | |
BountyHunter Campfire Regular | |
BountyHunter Campfire Regular Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 2,980 | People do not realize that only employee of the moving company is the driver. Packers and movers are day laborers at used to be $1 per 100 lbs loaded. They show up every morning hoping for work. You can call the local moving company dispatch office and hire the laborers on off days for $15 hour and they are happy. Last week and first week of the month are their busiest so plan accordingly. Not all companies will let their guys do that so just keep calling or stop in to the dispatch offices. The companies also have a warehouse where they sell used boxes for $1-2 each and give you all the white packing paper you want. You can buy packing box tape for $1-2 roll and get padded wrapping paper for mirrors and such. Have them pack you up and load the truck, you drive. I have had the packing crew show up with extra boxes and papers and just wanted a few dollars extra. Just buy lunch and give a little tip and they will fight to be the crew to load you up too. Professional packers are worth the money, they know how to pack it full and tight so it does not shift. Save the headache and heartache by using them. You can call destination moving company dispatches and have a crew waiting on the other end. I have done it 4-5 times that way no problems. You just have to drive. Ship the cars for very nominal fee. I have also hired local moving crews (business cards are often at storage units) 3 guys for $80 hour. They loaded two 26 ft trucks in 3 hours from storage units and packed it right on my last move and had a dispatch office 3 man crew on othe end for next day unload. Was less than $300 on each end., and packing was about another $400 or so. You have options. You can pull a large trailer with a 26 footer to in lieu of second truck. Get a lift tailgate truck to load large heavy items like a safe, tool boxes etc. Last edited by BountyHunter; 12/13/18. |
Re: How do you move cross-country? BillyGoatGruff#1335908812/14/18 | |
K kelbro Campfire Regular | |
kelbro Campfire Regular K Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 1,102 | Originally Posted by BillyGoatGruff Originally Posted by kelbro Just did a 2200 mile move last year. Movers packed and loaded. Unloaded and unpacked. Driver was the 'foreman' on both ends. Moved the ammo and reloading stuff in my own vehicle. They did take several of the guns as long as they were locked up in the safe. I've done this a couple of times. Make sure they load the safe and rollaway tool chest on first so they can't get to it after the trailer is loaded. They would not take the Polaris Ranger Crew or the Boston Whaler. Had to tow those ourselves. Moving the wife's car in an enclosed trailer was $1 per mile. Total including the car was $24K. Holy fugg. I can't imagine paying 24 grand to movers. Different strokes Company paid. Also had a few antiques clocks that needed special handling. A 900 pound smoker. Two gun safes. A large house full of crap. If I was paying, I would have jettisoned most of the household crap on craigslist and bought it again in the new place. |
Re: How do you move cross-country? Bob_H_in_NH#1335921612/14/18 | |
shaman Campfire Outfitter | |
shaman Campfire Outfitter Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 12,432 Likes: 15 | Based on family experience, I'd go with the prairie schooner. The last time anyone tried it on Mom's side, that was how it went. After serving with George Washington, Colonel Israel Shreve crossed the Alleghenies from New Jersey to the Youghiogheny River in Pennsylvania to build and run a mill for Washington. I've got his folding bookcase that came with him right here next to me. For the next 200 years after that, Mom's family traveled light. I guess they learned their lesson. Dad's family came all the way from Germany with nothing but suitcases. This was after a good 500 +years in the same spot. Imagine that yard sale! KYHillChicks clan, at least one side, made the move over the Cumberland Gap in a wagon. They were neighbors of George Washington by Mount Vernon, and were his mother's kin. They got to the first level spot on the other side of the Gap, put down roots and are still there. They'd had enough of the crap, and it took them a generation or two to leak out into the surrounding counties. I grew up a suburban rat out in the Big Sprawl in a brand new subdivision. Folks were always relocating from all over to work at P&G, GM, GE, Alice Chalmers, etc. A month didn't go by without a big moving van on the street. What I can tell you is that a big trans-continental mover will cost you a bundle, but most of the worries and nearly all of the liabilities are taken care of. Yes, I saw some rough deals, but it was mostly about delays, and stuff getting crunched in the move. The best DIY story I can give you is from KYHillChick's side of the family. One branch tried to make the move from WV to KY using their own truck. The father was a marked man and in hiding-- something to do with dynamite and a coal strike and the town bridge. The mother and the kids were all crammed into a truck carrying all their worldly possessions.. They were on RT 92 out by Yamacraw and Mom lost control of the truck on the big downgrade going down to the crossing of the Big South Fork. She managed to get all the kids out before the truck went over the side of the mountain. It's been 50 years, but you can still see the pile of wreckage strewn down the mountain. Me? When Satan and I moved to the 'Burbs back in '89, we called the local Mayflower affiliate. The dude that took my call refused to come out and give an estimate and said, "So what you have here is a 2 bedroom house?" "But. . . But. . ." What he didn't know was that the other 3 bedrooms and the attic were filled with furniture and stuff from the fact that Satan and I were both only children and all the old family members had died and left us their junk. I asked for a written estimate and I got one. Two guys showed up late by 3 hours with an itty-bitty truck. When it was all over, we had a panel truck filled and 11 movers dragging stuff out of the Van 12 hours later on a 5 mile move-- on a fixed bid of less than $1K. As I wrote the boss the check, he said, "Thank you, and please, when you go to make your next move, think about calling United." Genesis 9:2-4 Ministries Lighthearted Confessions of a Cervid Serial Killer |
Re: How do you move cross-country? shaman#1335922512/14/18 | |
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gophergunner Campfire Ranger Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 18,033 | I moved one time, from Cleveland, to my ever-since home area of Minneapolis. I got a work transfer, and they paid for my move. Nothing fancy-my boss and I moved me in a rental truck with a car dolly attached. We had to stop in Chicago to pick up optical equipment from a store our company had shut down in that area. I wondered why the store didn't make it until we got there to pick the stuff up. We had to wait for armed security to go in there with us, as it was in a very bad neighborhood, and they were pretty certain the truck would get stolen while we were in the building packing stuff up. We worked quick and got the heck out of there. Unnerving that places are that rough that you have to guard your vehicle. molɔ̀ːn labé skýla |
Re: How do you move cross-country? Clarkm#1335924012/14/18 | |
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WAM Campfire Tracker W Joined: May 2017 Posts: 4,990 Likes: 10 | Originally Posted by Clarkm Originally Posted by FreeMe I have that to look forward to when my inlaws assume room temperature. How do you convince him to move two states away? If you want to buy a 6 bedroom house for $100k, good hunting and fishing, with no minorities, you are crowded into a North Midwest area with cold winters and hot summers, no traffic and big parking spots. Or you can stay in Seattle where any shack is worth $500k, there is no hunting, no fishing, minorities, homeless, and draconian gun laws.... where it is always dark, rainy, and 47 degrees, traffic from hell and no parking for F150 size. I feel your pain...... Happy Trails Life Member NRA, RMEF, American Legion, MAGA. Not necessarily in that order. |
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