On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote: I understand the technique, and for a straight stairway, I think it would work just fine. In the 100-year-old house I was doing this in, there's a landing and a 90 degree turn to the left in the middle. The top of the rack would hit the wall while the bottom of the rack was still 3-4 stairs from the landing. Oh... and there was a stained-glass window at the landing as well (not broken by me, but later, when someone was moving a mattress, the window did not fare well). The rack had to go up the stairs nearly perfectly upright, except for the middle of the stairs, when it had to be tipped back about 10 degrees to clear the sloped ceiling. Again... I will never repeat that experience solo. I almost ended up at the bottom of the stairs under the rack. Gotcha. I remembered that some racks had the cluster of large pop rivets and some were welded but I wasn't sure which were which by model number. I spend more time in front of the machines than figuring out how to move the empty racks up impossible inclines or into impossibly small automobiles. A VW Microbus, BTW, can haul two H960s if you drop the rear seat and remove the middle seat - you just slide them in one at a time and load the middle area where the bench seat used to be with all the CPUs and disks you just removed from the racks. Easiest time ever. *That* works solo. Second easiest move was a VAX-11/750 in an Astro Minivan with no middle seats. The only hitch was the swivel chair mounts were taller than the casters, so the bottom of the VAX hung up on insertion and removal. Even so, it was still possible (and safe) solo. An 11/750 is mostly air and not as heavy as some things of similar size (like tape drives). -ethan