Maybe I'm behind the curve here, but I typically just pull the casters and place the piano in grand leg dollies. See: http://www.pljansen.com/serv04.htm <http://www.pljansen.com/serv04.htm>Pianos roll around the shop easily enough, and I'm only about 5'5", so I'm usually trying to get the piano down to a workable height. ;-] If you need the piano to be more stable, (and higher) you can buy three cinder blocks, pull the leg dollies off, and raise it up that way. The leg dollies don't take up much room either. William R. Monroe On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:47 PM, jimialeggio <jimialeggio at gmail.com> wrote: > Rethinking trolleys for moving a piano around the shop during a full > rebuild. > > Alright...this is the last time I make one of these...There are just too > many rolling contrivances in my shop that are in between jobs, stacked up > cluttering the place up. > > On the plus side, they get the piano at a comfortable height to do belly > work, and they move around the shop like a charm. > > On the negative side, you gotta build the darn thing for each job, then > disassemble it ( or trip over it till you get lucky and get a piano that's > the same size). > > Also big on the negative side, is its really hard to do the dead lift > necessary to get the piano up onto the trolley...no tilting to make life a > little easier. > > So...what are the other options out there in the small one/two man shop out > there?? > > Jim I > > Jim Ialeggio > grandpianosolutions.com > 978- 425-9026 > Shirley, MA > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101208/87e8b363/attachment.htm>
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