Scratch that!!! Truck spotted
Stupid suggestion: If we can’t return the current truck without a
substantial financial penalty, and you have enough people:
- Make sure you have pallet wrap.
- Load up with pallets at the Science World storage that have human
carry-able items on them. - Park on the gravel commercial area as close as possible.
- Put a pallet on the loading dock.
- Create a bucket brigade where people carry items into the loading bay
and place them on the pallet. - Wrap pallet if unstable.
- Pull pallet into the space on a pallet jack.
- Repeat.
This will take care of the lighter items until you can arrange for a
forklift. It’s slow, but at least you can make some progress.
Stupid Suggestion #2:
- Rent second smaller van/truck that will fit into the loading bay.
- Acquire or construct a ramp strong enough to support pallets that fits
between the larger truck and the van. - Load larger truck at Science World storage, drive to Cook st.
- Shuttle pallets into the smaller van over the ramp.
- Back the van into the Cook street bay and unload pallets via ramp.
- Repeat.
That’ll work for those items but what about the big stuff?
Smaller truck that cat fit and the use of a dock plate or dock board.
Dock plates can take anywhere from 1,000 lbs to 4,000 lbs and come wide enough to fit a pallet jack
Heaver loads would require a dock board, these can hold forklifts
1st truck leaving Powell st. Lots of hand-loadable pallets.
What about the wheelchair access ramp? How wide is it?
Steve
Not quite wide enough for a pallet.
I would swap the truck for one that is lower and without a lift gate.
Then pick up one of these to cover the different heights between loading docks:
Dan’s Equipment has them in North Van right near the bridge, they are $50/day to rent and heavy, will take 4 people to lift this in place
It’s working out. We got a manual fork lift. Things are going well
Good job troubleshooting. I love how we can scare up a manual fork lift in a pinch. See you lot around 6 pm.
Anyone out there that can relieve our current driver?
I am heading back by bus - will be there by 6pm
End of day - EVERYTHING IS MOVED TO THE NEW SPACE!
A lot of hard, hard work by a small army of members - thank you all for your work! It was great to see such a turnout on a week day.
Truly, it was a labour worthy of Hercules.
Much adversary was overcome for a tremendous outcome.
Thanks to everyone for putting forth such a huge effort!
Also, I’m sorry for the things I said when I was hungry.
Including the laser cutter and lathe?
Yep!