It seems like everytime we move we say "next time we'll use movers"....well I think after this move we REALLY mean it! Or at least I really hope we mean it! It has become a trend for us to only move during the summer which makes an already exhausting chore even worse. I realize we were extremely lucky at we only had a 1.25 mile move but nonetheless packing all our stuff (and the physical move) is still exhausting. Being that my husband and I just recently got out the of whole "move every year" phase of life we don't have too much unnecessary baggage, however since we did just get married we have all those wedding presents to move. I must admit I was DREADING the thought of moving everything but thanks to a little planning I managed to save a lot of the original boxes presents came in!
Anyway on to the good stuff...the move! On Saturday we showed up at U-Haul at exactly 11 am to get our moving truck much to my surprise it was actually ready on time! And so the moving commenced. After 2 trips with a FULL 17 ft U-Haul, the only things left to move were my husband's garage stuff including the most impressive collection of power tools you've ever seen, car jacks, miscellaneous car stuff, and my husband's prized possesion, his Green Egg Table. For those of you who don't know, a Green Egg the most amazing grill/smoker ever! No, seriously! It's amazing, it's only flaw it's about 250-ish lbs (or at least it feels that heavy). That's just the egg, that's not including the built-from-scratch table my very handy husband built to set his Green Egg in. The table is probably another 250-300 lbs. We decided to cover the entire table in slate, in hindsight we should have considered the weight thing. Needless to say this table is on wheels! As we load up the truck for the last load my husband realizes the table is 3 inches too wide for the U-Haul's ramp....lovely, right? Well after trying to MacGuyver a ramp for about an hour my husband discovered if he used his ATV jack to jack the table off the ground he could then change the wheels on the table from the outside to the inside thus making the table narrow enough to push up the ramp. After the switch was complete it still took my husband, my dad, and my brother-in-law to push the table up the ramp! We finally finished loading the truck waved goodbye to the house we had as a couple and headed for our new home!
Here's what I thought our Green Egg Table would look like...
And here's our infamous Green Egg Table, it's a little different but, hey, it has more character (blood, sweat and tears as well).
Anyway on to the good stuff...the move! On Saturday we showed up at U-Haul at exactly 11 am to get our moving truck much to my surprise it was actually ready on time! And so the moving commenced. After 2 trips with a FULL 17 ft U-Haul, the only things left to move were my husband's garage stuff including the most impressive collection of power tools you've ever seen, car jacks, miscellaneous car stuff, and my husband's prized possesion, his Green Egg Table. For those of you who don't know, a Green Egg the most amazing grill/smoker ever! No, seriously! It's amazing, it's only flaw it's about 250-ish lbs (or at least it feels that heavy). That's just the egg, that's not including the built-from-scratch table my very handy husband built to set his Green Egg in. The table is probably another 250-300 lbs. We decided to cover the entire table in slate, in hindsight we should have considered the weight thing. Needless to say this table is on wheels! As we load up the truck for the last load my husband realizes the table is 3 inches too wide for the U-Haul's ramp....lovely, right? Well after trying to MacGuyver a ramp for about an hour my husband discovered if he used his ATV jack to jack the table off the ground he could then change the wheels on the table from the outside to the inside thus making the table narrow enough to push up the ramp. After the switch was complete it still took my husband, my dad, and my brother-in-law to push the table up the ramp! We finally finished loading the truck waved goodbye to the house we had as a couple and headed for our new home!
Here's what I thought our Green Egg Table would look like...
And here's our infamous Green Egg Table, it's a little different but, hey, it has more character (blood, sweat and tears as well).
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