12 Jan
2010
12 Jan
'10
9:20 p.m.
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:06 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Be careful handling computer racks
On 12 Jan 2010 at 14:49, Michael Lee wrote:
When I got my VAX 6660, it was on a pallet that was well on its way to being nothing more
than kindling. As the poor delivery guy was trying to get it onto the lift gate and down,
it listed seriously, and I wondered if we were going to lose either the machine or one of
us! We got it down to the ground safely and wheeled it (on a pallet jack) into my garage.
When it came time to move it into the house, I surveyed the two steps up from my garage to
the basement with dismay. A friend came up with the idea of using a standard appliance
dolly to move it. We secured the machine, tilted it over on the dolly's rollers and
pushed it into the house on its side. Then came the job of picking it back up! We just
could not get enough leverage to bring it up off the floor. Finally, I grabbed a floor
jack, placed it under the spine of the dolly and angled the VAX up just close enough to
the tipping point that the two of us could bring it the rest of the way up, without
dropping it on its feet. Thank God those wonderful DEC casters took over from there....
-- Ian
I have seen and felt, from one floor below, an
fully populated EMC
Symmetrix cabinet fall on it's side. Someone, who shouldn't have
been, decided it needed to be moved, and rolled a wheel into a cutout
in the raised flooring, and down it went. Luckily the guy moving it
fell off to the side through an open tile, and the cabinet came down
on it's side breaking several floor tiles and dislodging/shattering
all the drop ceiling tiles nearby on the floor below. Had he fallen
under it, that would probably been the end of him.
Definitely not the people you want to move your nice shiny
Bosendorfer Concert Grand (piano). Crikey.