Moving...argh!!!

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sparkyv said:
We're moving to a new house. What a pain in the tuchus what with all my reloading gear and components. Lead is dense and thus projectiles are heavy, that's a given. What surprised me is how heavy my brass is. Still so many boxes to pack and move...:eek:
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As a fellow reloader I can relate. We moved 5 times in 3 years. I actually had to shoot factory ammo one deer season because my reloads were somewhere in storage.
 
I can relate. Moved a ton. One move, had to get out of their fast so I shoved my cast bullets in one box. Was like, alllrighht this is slick until I picked it up. It was too heavy so had to divide into two boxes.

Aside from that, my reloading equipment itself is very organized. Keep it in a specific setup that I can rearrange and carry as needed. My brass, bullets and stuff on the other had is still kinda scattered around. Finding stuff I casted or brass I primed in my first year I started.
You should've seen our pickup truck with all our ammo boxes on the bed though.
 
I just moved in August. Remember as much sense as it makes to move one room completely as a unit, the reloading room and garage have some crazy weight. Do those in chunks and not together. It’s hard on vehicles and trailers (and maybe your body) to try to move all the heaviest stuff together.

And the safe. I did good this time around. I wrapped my long guns in blankets and towels then zip tied the blankets and towels in place to hold them. I left the long guns in the safe and moved that way. No damage and I felt good that the guns were protected the whole time.
 
You have my sympathy having gone thru the same thing myself. As a collector, reloader and bullet caster you don't realize the volume of items acquired over a 30 year stay in one house. The items tend to be heavy and bulky and others quite fragile.
One suggestion, list every item that is in each box or container. It can save a lot of frustration trying to find items when setting back up at the new location.
Best luck!!
 
Best of luck, OP. An unfortunate acquaintance hauled cases of ammo, along with heavy furniture, in his enclosed trailer. He miscalculated the load and ended up with a broken trailer axle.:(

JTHunter said:
You have my sympathy. If I am ever in the position where I can "G.T.F.O.O.I." (Get The "F" Out Of Il-ANNOY), I'll be in the same dire straits.
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I hope you make it to freedom soon. I'm now going through that "GTFOOI" process. Moving will require a few trips, but luckily the firearms, safe, and ammo can be taken in one trip so another safe will not be required....and I'll be white-knuckling the steering wheel the whole way.
 
JTHunter said:
You have my sympathy. If I am ever in the position where I can "G.T.F.O.O.I." (Get The "F" Out Of Il-ANNOY), I'll be in the same dire straits.
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When I moved to Alabama in 2015 had to dedicate one of my trucks and separate trailer just for hunting gear, guns, ammo, safes and reloading bench. Adds up quick -- probably a solid four tons and only grown since then. Wife was paranoid about getting stopped and making the news LOL. After loading the safe and locking cabinets on their side, you can lay moving blankets inside and put guns inside in layers without fear of it shifting/falling over and keep everything locked up tight.
 
I’ve only moved twice in the past 30 years. I got tired of moving about as a kid and didn’t want to put mine through what I went through. I’ve been here 18 years now, and I’ve accumulated a lot during that time.

Honestly, I dread the day I’ll be having to move my gun stuff. (It won’t be a local move, that’s for sure! ;)) It’s going to be quite an undertaking… if it doesn’t kill me in the process o_O.

Stay safe.
 
sparkyv said:
What a pain in the tuchus what with all my reloading gear and components. Lead is dense and thus projectiles are heavy, that's a given. What surprised me is how heavy my brass is.
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This is why I feel sorry for the mailmen/UPS drivers in my area. There are options to moving your stuff tho if it's too much of a hassle......it's called a "moving sale".

Just sayin'.......:rofl:
 
The weight is bad enough, but even worse is trying to do it with things in cardboard. Cardboard won’t hold much, and it won’t stack heavy very well either. When I moved cross country I put everything in mil surplus ammo boxes. That gave me something that would handtruck and stack well. Mostly 50 cal boxes for me, but I had some 30 cal and 20mm boxes as well. And now that I’ve moved it’s a great way to store and organize my ammo.
 
Worked in PDSR California. Retired in 2010. Moved back to the United States. Yeah, it's a pain in the yarmush. (Obsolete Klingon word meaning "place where one does not want pain".)

Aside from all the firearm specific stuff, go through your possessions NOW and divest yourself of all the extraneous materials you and your lady wife and heirs have accumulated. Clothes you do not and will not wear, the 200 extra pens - most of which have dried out, calendars of the past five or six years, and little mementos you can't place with anything. After over ten years, I'm still asking myself "Why did I pay those movers to drag all this garbage halfway across the country?"

The best of fortune in the move itself and your new location.
 
Uhhh, no! I'll be needing them for squirrels n setch!
buck460XVR said:
This is why I feel sorry for the mailmen/UPS drivers in my area. There are options to moving your stuff tho if it's too much of a hassle......it's called a "moving sale".

Just sayin'.......:rofl:
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Yup, in ~50% ammo boxes and 25% cardboard boxes I'm transporting ammo, and 25% lg Folgers coffee poly cans contain projectiles. The cardboard boxes are no larger than about 14x14x14" so they'll be manageable.
Kawamax said:
The weight is bad enough, but even worse is trying to do it with things in cardboard. Cardboard won’t hold much, and it won’t stack heavy very well either. When I moved cross country I put everything in mil surplus ammo boxes. That gave me something that would handtruck and stack well. Mostly 50 cal boxes for me, but I had some 30 cal and 20mm boxes as well. And now that I’ve moved it’s a great way to store and organize my ammo.
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Yup, we've certainly been divesting. Made several trips to the dumpster and to the Goodwill. "Moved back to the United States." LOL!

Thanks for the well wishes.
Archie said:
Worked in PDSR California. Retired in 2010. Moved back to the United States. Yeah, it's a pain in the yarmush. (Obsolete Klingon word meaning "place where one does not want pain".)

Aside from all the firearm specific stuff, go through your possessions NOW and divest yourself of all the extraneous materials you and your lady wife and heirs have accumulated. Clothes you do not and will not wear, the 200 extra pens - most of which have dried out, calendars of the past five or six years, and little mementos you can't place with anything. After over ten years, I'm still asking myself "Why did I pay those movers to drag all this garbage halfway across the country?"

The best of fortune in the move itself and your new location.
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Just moved in October, what a pain. Moved to the mountains in Western NC. Degree of difficulty increased due to steep driveway, so no way to get a large moving van to the house. Made a lot of donations, crazy how much stuff we had. Then moved a bunch ourselves, at least half dozen UHaul trailer loads just to get it down to a level that would fit in a small moving truck.

Took two trips just to get ammunition and reloading supplies moved using my truck. Pistols went into original boxes, then into large garage storage boxes. Rifles went into a mix of shipping boxes and rifle cases. Those stood upright in two UHaul wardrobe boxes. All went into a UHaul trailer. Not about to trust movers to move all that.

Two Liberty safes got moved my local safe company that I purchased them from. They were bolted to garage floor.

What a pain, last move for me!
 
I may be facing a move in the future and I'm dreading it. We built the house where we live now and I didn't plan on moving again. I told my Wife that I may empty my sock and underwear drawer into a box, grab my guns and have an estate sale on everything else!
 
I moved from the Chicago area to SE Wisconsin at the end of last May. I can't tell you how happy I am that we did this. Selling our house took extra work as I had to store all my reloading equipment and supplies as well as my guns in a way that allowed potential buyers to see the house but not those things. Moving the reloading supplies took a few trips as I didn't want to break the axle of my truck as mope540 mentioned.
 
We moved 18 years ago, into what we thought was our retirement.

Then, Mom passed. Then, Wife and i caught Covid. Mom's house has ramp on steps, grab bars on shower, shower seat, blah, blah, blah.
I was in hospital, wife decided to move to Mom's (6 blocks).

I got out of hospital, wife has stroke.
3 months into this adventure, looks like wet will stay here and daughter move into ours.

I have been "moving" some things, about an hour a day, for them past week.

Had to move a lot of Mom's 30 year accumulation out first.

Good luck on your move. I've never done #1, but #2 9 times. I am not so sure divorce is worse. Nobody has been through 9 divorces, I hope.
 
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