Calling out for HELP!!!

[newb]

Ok, so I purchased a 210 gallon tank about a week or so ago and have still not been able to get help moving it. I have tried every other option. I called moving companies, which they want like $400 to move it...yeah right! I have asked friends and family...no help. I got two or three friends my size to help but if you can or know somebody who can help, I really need this tank moved and I would really appreciate anybodies help. I went to harbor freight and purchased the suction cups suggested, but I dont have anybody to lift up. I have two colonys of tropheus crammed in a 135 for over a week now, and they are starting to get beat to hell. If anybody can help please let me know I will be available whenever this week. Baytown is only a 15min drive from downtown Htown so it isnt that bad of a drive.

[armthehomeless]

I can help you move it on Monday-Thursday after I get off work (if that works...).

If you have 2 or three friends that are your size, why can you not move it? Are you going up or down stairs? I've moved 210's with one other person that was my size several times...

[Mzungu]

Geoff will help. PM him your phone number so he can get details.

What kind of help do you need? Are you moving it across town? Do you need vehicle help, or physical help lifting, etc.?

[newb]

gotta go up 10 straight stairs. it is in my garage right now...I just need physical strenth to get it up the stairs. I will look at my work schedule and try to find a day when all can help. I will stay posted...thx ahead of time for any help offered.

[Zulaab]

Newb.... get a new place.. where you dont have to go up stairs... much easier.

[newb]

easier said than done. I basically signed a lease to any place with a roof that was affordable and not in the ghetto. I am thinking about getting a downstairs apartment in the same complex in February.

[CichlidFan]

I'm currently seeing a chiropractor for back issues due to improper lifting....or I would....but I would suggest you go back to Harbor Freight and buy one of their 78.00 refriderator hand trucks (the kind with straps on it)....I moved a 135 by myself with one a few weeks ago....even though I wasn't supposed too... :)

CF

[Zulaab]

easier said than done. I basically signed a lease to any place with a roof that was affordable and not in the ghetto. I am thinking about getting a downstairs apartment in the same complex in February.

Suggestion would be go to the management office and ask them if its possible to move to a downstairs apartment sooner than February. I have done that in the past (I lived on the third floor) and you have seen me... I told them that the "up and down" stairs was killing my back and I wanted to see if they had something downstairs.. They said yes and I moved into a downstairs unit the next month. (the only back-draw at the time was I went from their small one bedroom to their large one bedroom (it had a study) and I had to start paying an extra $75 a month. Something I didnt have a problem with. Now granted this was back in 1993 so its been a while :)

Go ask... only way you know for sure.

[newb]

moving really not an option at this point. its not just me living here. my girlfriend feels "safer" not being on the ground level.

[cichlid1409]

if you have 2 or 3 friends who have volunteered whats the problem. you and another guy your size should be enough muscle. quit being a baby and just do it already

[Darbex]

Come on Randall my wife and I carried a 90G up my retarded stairs at my house. So that really meant I carried a 90G up the stairs. Your a big dude you cant carry it with 2 other dudes your size? I am just fing with you. Let me know and I may be able to help cant promise that though as work has been hell lately.

[newb]

all im saying is me and my brother Frex liked to barely get this thing in the back of the car. me and him have moved my 125, 135, and 110 up the stairs, but this tank has a lot of bottom weight while going up the stairs.

[stevenallenbarnard]

I'm currently seeing a chiropractor for back issues due to improper lifting....or I would....but I would suggest you go back to Harbor Freight and buy one of their 78.00 refriderator hand trucks (the kind with straps on it)....I moved a 135 by myself with one a few weeks ago....even though I wasn't supposed too... :)

CF

+1

I have my 120 in an upstairs. And my steps are jacked as well too. they go 10 steps in 1 direction, and then a small landing, and then 10 steps in another to the top. me and 2 friends ( 1 really cause the steps were so narrow the 3rd guy was pretty much useless and almost sent the tank over the side of the stairs. I tried moving companies and they all say the same thing. they wanna charge for an entire home to move 1 item.

http://www.uhaul.com/rentalitems/

you can rent one and all the pads you;ll need from u-haul for less than $30

[CichlidFan]

Hell yeah....appliance dolly...10.00....that's the way to go...and alot less driving than coming over here too....good call StevenAllen....very good call.

CF

[Complexity]

my girlfriend feels "safer" not being on the ground level.

She has good reason to feel safer not being on the ground level. She is safer. It's a fact that women are more at risk in ground level apartments than on upper levels.