Remind me not to do THAT again...

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I just moved my Assault from the garage to the basement. Down about 7 steps. With help consisting of my wife, who while wonderful isn't strong enough to assist. That wasn't very bright of me.

I did have an appliance hand truck (Harbor Freight special). Unfortunately, given the size of the machine and the depth and width of the stairs, I got the thing down to height of the hand truck, and ran out of space to stand where I could hold the hand truck properly. I had to lay flat on the ground to lower it the next two steps, then finally sit on the top step to lower it rest of the way.

Thankfully I didn't lose control, so there was no damage, but it was a near thing. (A year or so ago I was moving a fridge down the same steps but with a regular hand truck. That one I DID lose control of. Fortunately, the fridge will still seal if I use a bungie cord on it.)

Anyone who wants to school me on the proper way to do these things is welcome...because I tend to think that me lying on the ground holding the hand truck handles is NOT the right way!
 
I had a similar experience once. Wife "tried" to help me move a Chase HQ down our basement steps (this was before I had the walk out with ramp). With just a few steps to go, the game started to sway and was getting ready to fall off the side. At that point it was safer (for the game anyway) to just let it go and run like hell. Wife hit her head on a beam in the ceiling between floors, but all else was well. Bless her heart.
 
i can relate entirely. i said after my last to the basement, that it would be my last machine. my wife has also stated she will no longer help me and that i will have to wait until i get one of my buddies(what she doesn't know is i'm working on a sit down cruis'n!). it was a dynamo that nearly met it's particle board death. i fear the day we sell the house and i have to get these beasts out of here...
I just moved my Assault from the garage to the basement. Down about 7 steps. With help consisting of my wife, who while wonderful isn't strong enough to assist. That wasn't very bright of me.

I did have an appliance hand truck (Harbor Freight special). Unfortunately, given the size of the machine and the depth and width of the stairs, I got the thing down to height of the hand truck, and ran out of space to stand where I could hold the hand truck properly. I had to lay flat on the ground to lower it the next two steps, then finally sit on the top step to lower it rest of the way.

Thankfully I didn't lose control, so there was no damage, but it was a near thing. (A year or so ago I was moving a fridge down the same steps but with a regular hand truck. That one I DID lose control of. Fortunately, the fridge will still seal if I use a bungie cord on it.)

Anyone who wants to school me on the proper way to do these things is welcome...because I tend to think that me lying on the ground holding the hand truck handles is NOT the right way!
 
i can relate entirely. i said after my last to the basement, that it would be my last machine. my wife has also stated she will no longer help me and that i will have to wait until i get one of my buddies(what she doesn't know is i'm working on a sit down cruis'n!). it was a dynamo that nearly met it's particle board death. i fear the day we sell the house and i have to get these beasts out of here...

I'm telling you - MOVERS. Last time I moved house I used movers and those guys just ROCKED. No video games, but they moved the (rather large and heavy, even empty) entertainment center by slapping a monster rubber band around it (to hold the doors closed) and one guy grabbed it and went. I'm no small fry (6 ft, but flabby these days), but those guys were IMPRESSIVE.
 
GOING DOWN IS EASY.. two prople on the bottom, one on top. Let the cab rest of a moving blanket then use the bask of the machine to slide on the stairs.. the prople on the bottom do the braking.. id prefer that over a handtruck anyday..


Nowadays i have this:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=103086614

and ive never looked back. i can move a big game by myself.
 
Assault is one heavy cabinet. I can totally relate. I don't think I will ever get mine up the stairs to my gameroom.
 
Don't do that again.








Well, you asked.

(I can't believe no one else beat me to that! :D )
 
GOING DOWN IS EASY.. two prople on the bottom, one on top. Let the cab rest of a moving blanket then use the bask of the machine to slide on the stairs.. the prople on the bottom do the braking.. id prefer that over a handtruck anyday..

That sounds pretty scary. I actually prefer to move games by myself. I would definitely take a good hand truck and a ratchet strap over 2 helpers. Assuming those helpers have no experience moving games. Especially down stairs. Going UP stairs is a totally different story. You don't have gravity helping you. Anyone "helping" who doesn't know what they're doing is more likely to get hurt than provide any real assistance.

There are lots of ways to do it. The only common rule is to go slow and be careful.

Use ratchet straps, go slow and take it one stair at a time. Proven and time tested method. Dozens and dozens of games in and out of basements can't be wrong ;)
 
Assault is one heavy cabinet. I can totally relate. I don't think I will ever get mine up the stairs to my gameroom.


My Assault went up 15 stairs to get to my gameroom. All you need is a friend who is a garbage man that works out in the gym 3 hours a day and the game practically goes up the stairs by itself. I guided it though :)
 
I just moved my Assault from the garage to the basement. Down about 7 steps. With help consisting of my wife, who while wonderful isn't strong enough to assist. That wasn't very bright of me.

I did have an appliance hand truck (Harbor Freight special). Unfortunately, given the size of the machine and the depth and width of the stairs, I got the thing down to height of the hand truck, and ran out of space to stand where I could hold the hand truck properly. I had to lay flat on the ground to lower it the next two steps, then finally sit on the top step to lower it rest of the way.

Thankfully I didn't lose control, so there was no damage, but it was a near thing. (A year or so ago I was moving a fridge down the same steps but with a regular hand truck. That one I DID lose control of. Fortunately, the fridge will still seal if I use a bungie cord on it.)

Anyone who wants to school me on the proper way to do these things is welcome...because I tend to think that me lying on the ground holding the hand truck handles is NOT the right way!

You should have had your wife on the top with the Dolly helping the best she could, while you were under it. Google "Gravity" and study up on that a bit :)
 
1:strap the game to the handtruck to eliminate that variable.

2:loop another strap through the hand trucks hand holds(extend your reach on the strap).

3: Start the game down the steps.

4: When your about 2/3 of the way down, let the game rest on the back of the hand truck and while holding the added strap let it slide down the rest of the way.
 
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I have 14 steps leading down to my basement and have found that the safest way is to take out the monitor,control panel,and coindoor assembly. You drop allot of weight off of the cabinet. I have moved 4 cabs into my basement that way by myself with an apliance hand truck.
 
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1:strap the game to the handtruck to eliminate that variable.

2:loop another strap through the hand trucks hand holds(extend your reach on the strap).

3: Start the game down the steps.

4: When your about 2/3 of the way down, let the game rest on the back of the hand truck and while holding the added strap let it slide down the rest of the way.

Ahh! #4 is what I needed - I didn't think about just running another strap over the handles to gain length. That would have let me lower it down the stairs with no real problem. Thanks!
 
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