Just a one ton cabinet...
This is just a story…. of a heavy cabinet and a guy out of his element.
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The other day, perusing facebook marketplace, I came across a lady who had a file cabinet to give away. Not usually interested in file cabinets but this one had a lot of drawers. They were for storing large file cards. I'm thinking, "That could come in handy for all the smaller stuff I've got around crowding the existing drawers and cabinets I currently have.
I met her at a storage locker. A guy was there before me picking up something. She asks him to hang around to help load the cabinet in my truck. He says that he's got an appointment so I think, "it's just a file cabinet" and tell him I can handle it. My mistake. When I go to move it I'd swear it was bolted to the ground. After quite awhile I managed to load it into my truck. I tried an embarrassingly large number of times in different ways. I surely don't mind lifting anything. It never has bothered me, but in the past ten years, at 65, things are getting heavier. I managed to get it in the back of my F-150 and tell her that she was right and I made a mistake letting they guy go. She just gave me an agreeing stare. Also, it doesn't help that every truck I get, the tailgate seems to be eight inches higher than the previous one.
When I got it home I only had to get it out of the truck and up 4 steps to my garrison workshop over the in-ground garage. Gravity helped getting it down off the tailgate but it ended with a thud. Going up the steps was a lesson in the foolish meets the ridiculous.
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I went into the house to find the cabinet online. I found it at an office supply store and discovered that it weighed in at 278 pounds. I put it on it's back on a plank on the steps. I squatted with my back to it and pushed with my legs. It felt just like the thing was filled with bricks. It felt that dense.
I swore, I gave up a few times, laughing by myself, sitting on the steps with my back to the bottom of the cabinet. After about thirty minutes I only had to flip it upright. I won't even mention how pathetic that was.
I'm glad I got it. I've got so much stuff to put in it. It's a commercial piece of office furniture. The drawers hold 150 lbs. each and the extend out the full length. But, I earned it.
I don't anticipate it falling over with drawers extended. If I sat on the drawer it wouldn't budge. Right now, empty it still feels bolted to the floor.
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This is just a story…. of a heavy cabinet and a guy out of his element.
.
.
The other day, perusing facebook marketplace, I came across a lady who had a file cabinet to give away. Not usually interested in file cabinets but this one had a lot of drawers. They were for storing large file cards. I'm thinking, "That could come in handy for all the smaller stuff I've got around crowding the existing drawers and cabinets I currently have.
I met her at a storage locker. A guy was there before me picking up something. She asks him to hang around to help load the cabinet in my truck. He says that he's got an appointment so I think, "it's just a file cabinet" and tell him I can handle it. My mistake. When I go to move it I'd swear it was bolted to the ground. After quite awhile I managed to load it into my truck. I tried an embarrassingly large number of times in different ways. I surely don't mind lifting anything. It never has bothered me, but in the past ten years, at 65, things are getting heavier. I managed to get it in the back of my F-150 and tell her that she was right and I made a mistake letting they guy go. She just gave me an agreeing stare. Also, it doesn't help that every truck I get, the tailgate seems to be eight inches higher than the previous one.
When I got it home I only had to get it out of the truck and up 4 steps to my garrison workshop over the in-ground garage. Gravity helped getting it down off the tailgate but it ended with a thud. Going up the steps was a lesson in the foolish meets the ridiculous.
.
.
I went into the house to find the cabinet online. I found it at an office supply store and discovered that it weighed in at 278 pounds. I put it on it's back on a plank on the steps. I squatted with my back to it and pushed with my legs. It felt just like the thing was filled with bricks. It felt that dense.
I swore, I gave up a few times, laughing by myself, sitting on the steps with my back to the bottom of the cabinet. After about thirty minutes I only had to flip it upright. I won't even mention how pathetic that was.
I'm glad I got it. I've got so much stuff to put in it. It's a commercial piece of office furniture. The drawers hold 150 lbs. each and the extend out the full length. But, I earned it.
I don't anticipate it falling over with drawers extended. If I sat on the drawer it wouldn't budge. Right now, empty it still feels bolted to the floor.
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