Consideraations for how to move all our STUFF from West Sacramento to Oregon included:
1) a commercial moving company and 2 each 26 foot U-Haul trucks ($2k ea) with auto transports ($80 ea) for motorcycles, game mounts, friends, cars and items carrier wont take (flamables, explosives, aerosol cans, etc)
$19,000.00 for what the moving company would take
26-foot U-Haul truck with motorcycles and auto transport with Solora
26-foot U-Haul truck with "other stuff" movers wont haul and auto transpory with Geo
Cost for movers, trucks, gas etc, storage... must be a better way...
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$23000 TOTAL (not including storage, gas)
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2) 4 each U-Box, U-Pack, Pods, etc... (not all would deliver to our remote location) and 2 each 26 foot U-Haul trucks ($2k ea) with auto transports ($80 ea)
U-Box: $1000 each + storage + delivey
same reglations on flamables, explosives, aerosol cans, etc
26-foot U-Haul truck with motorcycles and auto transport with Solora
26-foot U-Haul truck with "other stuff" movers wont haul and auto transport with Geo
Cost for pods, trucks, gas etc, storage... must be a better way...
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$8000 TOTAL (not including storage, delivery, gas)
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3) a caravan of 4 each 26-foot U-Haul trucks ($2k ea) with 2 each auto transports ($80 ea)...
#1 with household stuff & auto transport with Solora
#2 with more household stuff & auto transport with Geo
#3 with garage and yard stguff
#4 with the motorcycles
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$8000 TOTAL (not including storage, gas)
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Cost for trucks, gas etc and storage while selling/buying house, and how to deal with getting everything into and out of storage (where???)... must be a better way...
4) 40 foot sea container and a 15-foot U-Haul truck with an auto transport trailer for the Geo...
$2500 to purchse 40 foot sea container
$ 350 for city encroachmentpermit
$ 100 for delivery
$ 100 to deliver to storage facility
$ 600 for 4 months storage at $150/month
$2200 to transport to Oregon (including $200/diam)
$1000 15 foot U-Haul truck
$ 80 auto transport
$ 500 transport 6 motorcycles to Oregon
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$6950 TOTAL (not including gas)
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load sea container with ALLL household stuff including game mounts, items carrier wont take (flamables, explosives, aerosol cans, etc)
load 15 foot U-Haul truck with TC88, xl883, "camping stuff" etc
load Solora with dogs, friends, etc
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14May20/Thursday: The street was examined by city inspetor prior to delivery (so it could be compared with condition after removal)...
15MAY20/Friday: A 40 foor sea container previously owned by Medeteranian Shipping Company was purchased and delivered...
- This container was sooooo big that needed a crane to deliver it! |
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The plan *WAS* to have Steve's help on 19,20,21MAY20/Tuesday,Wednesday,Friday spending Tuesday getting 4x4's, 2x4's, 2x6's etc to build an 8'wide by 12' long 5' high shelf in the closed end of the container to put the motorcycles under and other "stuff" above and then spend the next two days, Wednesday and Thursday, loading all the "stuff" from the garage and the house; HOWEVER, upon further consideration the motorcycles would be put into storage, , since the sea container was delibered a few days earlier than expected and since there was still some last minute packing to do of the remainder of "stuff" in the house, the sea container sat idle until Tuesday morning when Steve arrived...
19MAY20/Tuesday: Steve arrives, we set up a ramp and begin loading lots of boxes from the garage, purple couch & chair, pink chair, 4 file cabinets, the Christmas tree...
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20MAY20/Wednesday: Steve arrives and we resume where we left off on Tuesday with the container maybe 1/4 full loading more boxes, exersize equipment, garage refrigerator...
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21MAY20/Thursday: Steve arrives and we resume where we left off on Wednesday with the container maybe 1/2 full loading some BIG stuff like the armoir, the piano, China cabinets, dressers, queen mattress, garage freezer, more furniture (dining room table & chairs, kitchen table & chairs, rocking chairs)...
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22MAY20/Friday: Good thing we did not spend a day building "the shelf" because should have finished loading yesterday (and there's still a lot left) and beause it's going to be really tight getting everyhing in without the shelf and the motorycles!!!
A loooong day working by myself loading some fairly large stuff like the gym locker, the tool cabinet, the BBQ, the garage brown cabinet...
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23MAY20/Saturday: Stilllll loading and there's still a lot left and trying to squeeze something into every nook and cranney...
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24MAY20/Sunday: Enlisted Steve's help a little more... the reloading bench is a real wooly bugger...also got the bicycles hung...
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25MAY20/Monday: 3 planned days loading... PLUS 4... still squeezing... the hot tub stairs, book shelves, bench press machine and all the weights, boxes of rocks, floor cleaning machines, lawn mower, ladders, and loading equipment (dolly, hand truck, ramp)...
And now the worrying begins... I was warned that there was a 30,000 pound load limit, exceed that and it's no-go - some stuff would have to be off loaded to another container or truck or whatever until the load came to within the load limit... and there was a LOT of heavy stuff... books, weights, tools, ROCKS!!!
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26MAY20/Tuesday: off to storage today...
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... WHEW!!! - load was 23,000 pounds... I had 7,000 pounds to spare... could have taken the concrete water fountain and the warming bench... but... no room...
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