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i listed my pinball machine cheap last night and these guys came to get it in the rain it was crazy,but they did make it home in one piece
 

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Wow - didn't take the legs off, fold the head down or anything. Looks nice and cozy, at least. :)
 
Wow - didn't take the legs off, fold the head down or anything. Looks nice and cozy, at least. :)

I would NEVER transport a pin that way.

Probably new to it like I am, if it weren't for the forums I wouldn't know to take the legs off or fold down the head, which now seems like an obvious thing to do after hanging around the forums.

a year ago i woulda just grabbed a few friends and muscled it into my truck and hauled it home LOL
 
i listed my pinball machine cheap last night and these guys came to get it in the rain it was crazy,but they did make it home in one piece

I would say that's the absolute worst way of moving a pinball machine, aside from dragging it behind the truck on a chain.

I have seen a pair of guys load up and drive off with a TFTC like this from an auction I attended. I tried to show them how to lower the head and take off the legs and they were uninterested in any advice at all.

There was a guy on Pinside who posted that he tried to take home a pristine HUO LOTR like this and it flipped off the truck and landed upside down on the road at speed. He admits that he knew better but his buddy was "in a hurry".

My heart.

RM
 
At the operator I worked at for 28 years, we moved pinballs fully assembled and with the backbox up! Of course we had pinball dollies (three of them) and side tie down rails and lift gates on all our trucks.

One thing we always did was to cover the machines with custom made pinball tarps/covers. Pinballs were always covered even on bright sunny days (keeps the plastics from warping from the heat).
 
When your a noob you don't know these things.
When I bought my first pin back in 1982, Bally Star Trek, my buddy and I loaded it up in the back of my 1977 Ford F 350 crew cab long bed pickup fully assembled. The truck bed had an electric dump and no tail gate. The previous owner forgot to open the tail gate wile dumping a load of old broken concrete which pulled it off so he left it under the pile. Anyway I was new to games being my first so we loaded it up fully assembled and only had a rope to tie it down so my buddy rode in the bed to help hold it down and I headed home. We only had a 5 mile trip but it was wintertime and about 25 degrees out side so my buddy about froze to death but we made it in one piece. Getting it in the house, that was another story.
 
I told them to take it apart.they wanted know part of that.i wanted to post this with other funny pics of hauling i even post the one with the video game on top of like a ford tempo.but i didnt remenber where that post was.
 
Went into a dealer's warehouse years ago and saw a brand new pin all smashed up. Guy had bought it and refused their offer to tie it down for him. Legs on, backbox up, he drove off and flipped it out of the truck leaving their driveway. Then he expected the dealer to fix it for free. After that, the dealer's policy was "You can tie it down yourself or we will do it for you. Otherwise, you are not buying it from us."
 
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