About the only thing I didn’t need was the hand truck.
Allow me to explain. Following the
successful installation of our new big-screen TV, I needed to move our old TV
stand from the living room to what is now my office. We’re talking about
something less than thirty feet in distance.
Oddly enough, this turned out to be
“the little big move.” The job consumed the better part of a day and required
armfuls of both hand and power tools. The difficulty arose from the fact that I
had customized (read: made it really big) the old TV stand to accommodate a
48-inch TV several years ago. To make the move, I needed to unscrew and pry
apart nailed pieces from a live-edge slab of blue pine I had used to extend the
stand to something near six feet in length. I also removed a glass door and
some shelves.
Following the disassembly, I used
furniture sliders to push and pull the stand down the hall and into my office.
I had no more than an inch to spare when rotating the hulking piece out of the
hall and into the room. Once I wrestled the stand into the office, I dragged my
collection of tools into the space and clambered around it, reassembling
everything I’d torn apart.
—Mitchell Hegman
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