On 8/19/2009 12:19 AM N_Cook spake thus:

I'm aware of lifting with the legs, not the back and trolley for horizontal
movement, rather than carrying. Any other advice assuming no human assistant
available ?

Not sure what you mean by "trolley" (your terms are so quaint-sounding
and in any case different from ours over here in the US), but I'm
guessing you're talking about what we call a "dolly", a rolling
platform, maybe?

I recommend what we call a "hand truck", those metal vertical thingies
with two big wheels (non-pneumatic on smaller ones, pneumatic on larger
ones), often incorrrectly called "dollies". Very easy to cart around all
sorts of big, heavy things. (Well, maybe not pianos; that's a
head-scratcher for sure.) Just get the metal bottom under what you want
to move and pull back on the truck while holding the thing onto the
truck. One person can easily move things like large refrigerators this way.


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