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The below listed STANDARD EQUIPMENT SET is the minimum required set of moving equipment that AGMC considers necessary to be properly prepared to do a good moving job. The below listed ACE set is the additional equipment, when added to the STANDAR SET, that AGMC considers as "above and beyond" the minimum requirement, in order to qualify as an ACE moving company.
STANDARD EQUIPMENT SET
___ a moving company shirt
___ a hand-truck
___ 4 dozen moving blankets
___ 4 ratchet straps,
___ 6 clean rugs,
___ 4 rolls of tape,
___ Black Straps,
___ big and small plastic wrap,
___ all sizes mattress bags,
___ a few cardboard boxes,
___ tie down rope,
___ a Basic Tool Set*,
___ drill & bits set,
___ some baggies (for parts),
___ zip ties,
___ sm 3 or 4 step step-ladder,
___ a leaf blower or broom,
___ a professional piano dolly
(flat bottom rubber wheels),
___ Standard TV box
___ cardboard boxes 3+
___ super-sticky post-it notes,
___ 3 door wedges,
___ a clip board with:
___ your company invoices
___ Your transaction logs
ACE EQUIPMENT SET
All of the Standard Equipment set plus the following:
___ 13" wheel hand truck
___ Appliance dolly
(attaches to hand truck)
___ Two more dozen blankets
(6 doz total)
___ 6 more rugs (12 total)
___ neoprene floor runner,
___ all sizes of movers bands
(rubber bands)
___ Hat of A Great Moving Crew
___ Shirt of A Great Moving Crew
___ Knobby soled black shoes
___ Matching black pants
___ door and door-jam cover,
___ Big Red floor dolly
___ Step ramp
___ 6' ramp
___ a few "tire-raiser" 2"x6" boards or ramp
___ furniture repair kit, fill stix
___ large pull-string garbage bags,
___ pig tail wire
___ aluminum tape,
___ Stud finder
___ Level
___ Dryer vent crimper,
___ Chip reader Credit card reader
___ Felt pads for customer
___ Spackling (3M best)
___ paint color selection & brushes
___ hand saw
___ First aid kit
___ pig tie wires
___ 3 & 4 prong dryer cords,
___ Few drinks,
___ Old English scratch fix,
___ Furniture scratch markers
___ Fill sticks, repair filler
___ large 6' ramp
___ Booties for 3 man crew
___ tire pump,
___ Leaf-blower
___ 2 Battery-lights
___ pole for carrying hanging clothes,
___ customer supplies (felt pads, caster cups, locks, screws, bolts)
___ Cutting disk for drill
___ Wrench set
___ Seal verification cables
___ Mattress carrier
HERE'S SOME EXAMPLE PICTURES OF THIS EQUIPMENT
IN A BIG TRUCK
The blankets should be folded like this.
Here's the proper placement of all this, except the U-Haul blankets are folded in two stacks instead of one longer one.
This is the stack of nicer blankets, to the left of the main equipment cabinet.
These are two Lowes TV boxes, held by a bar.
Note the black straps bag on the appliance dolly, and the two tool bags above held by a bungee.
Above the hand-truck is the supplies bag with tape and securing straps.
Here's where the ramp extension is kept.
The door and door jam covers are kept on the top right shelf above the rugs.
A pair of tire-raiser ramps are kept behind the cab seat in the front of the truck. Under the cab seat is a tire inflator.
The extra tools bag.
Two of these load-locking bars are kept on-end just to the left of the red hand-truck
The piano board is just bungee strapped to the side wall.
HERE'S SOME EXAMPLE PICTURES OF EQUIPMENT IN A "SMALL" TRUCK
Note how the three parts of the black straps are rolled up separately and individually visible. The orange straps need to go back exactly like this.
One ratchet strap should be put into each of the four outside end pockets. There are two more ratchets in plastic bags inside (6 total ratchet straps, COUNT THEM).
There's one rug in the middle.
The garbage bag is hanging on the left side of the bands holder.
In the cab on the middle seat is 3 rugs, folded like this so you can see that there's 3 rugs on the middle seat (+1 rug on the back floor). Behind the passenger seat is the floor dolly, the mattress carrier, and the neoprene floor runner (stacked like this so you can see that these three items are there in a picture taken from this angle). Under the front side of the rugs is an extra supplies box. Under the passenger seat is a tire inflator.
The neoprene floor runner is rolled up and can be seen on top of the floor dolly, under the mattress carrier.
There's door wedges under the driver's seat.
There's no trash or sunflower-seed shells on the floor.
Don't forget the gas and odometer picture showing pick up level and ending return level.
EACH MOVER SHOULD
BRING HIS OWN TOOL BAG
A top Lead should have a well equipped tool bag. In general, each moving helper should not use another mover's tool bag, and should only use his own tool bag, unless it's an emergency.
Bits for every occasion.
Each "good" moving helper should bring their own tool bag so that they are responsible for their own tools.
THE LEAD SHOULD BRING HIS OWN SUPPLIES FOR THE JOB
Tape, baggies, rope, sm green-wrap.
Carpet protection film.
All sizes of mattress bags.
The Lead uses his tape to re-fill the tape in the "supplies box" in the truck.
Extra ratchet straps in case the customer needs them.
The Lead should have booties for the crew.
A good Lead also brings some repair supplies.
INVOICES
TRANSACTION LOG
REPLACE OR PAY FOR USED TRUCK SUPPLIES
If you, as Lead, use supplies that in the supplies bag in the truck, or the big green wrap on the rubber-bands holder, you need to replace those supplies with your own stash of supplies, or pay AGMC for the supplies with a restocking fee.
IF YOU DON'T ALREADY HAVE THE NEEDED EQUIPMENT ONSITE, YOU CAN PICK IT UP OR ORDER IT DELIVERED TO YOUR JOB SITE BY CALLING AGMC.
USE THE RIGHT TOOL FOR THE JOB.
Borrow Phil's fancy new heavy lifters. They can carry things up to 1400 lbs., like big gun safes, heavy pianos and crazy heavy shop equipment. They have wide flat bottom wheels for not leaving groves in wood floors.
These crank the item up to one foot off the ground for easy clearance over the truck ramp top. They can lower as low as you want off the floor to get barely under low overheads. They also weigh only 36 lbs. ea. and so are easy to carry.
"Incline four wheeler", made of a 13" wheel hand-truck attached to an appliance dolly.
This is extremely stable, and prevents super heavy things from tipping back onto the dolly handler.
Borrow Phil's grand piano board.
Big Red. Has the easy clips on all sides. Capacity 1800 lbs.
TEN FOOT RAMP
It's an aluminum ramp (not too heavy), about 8' wider than a normal truck ramp, Rated for over 2,000 lbs. Perfect for four or five step situations.
SIX FOOT RAMP
If you don't already have one, borrow Phil's six foot ramp. It's not just the standard ramp from Harbor Freight; it's reinforced with extra aluminum bars underneath, welded on by a machine shop, and able to handle up to 2,000 lbs.
The old style safe & piano carrier, very light-weight, but only lifts about an inch off the ground.
Notice that the handles fold out for easy use.
HEAVY DUDY HYDROLIC LIFTERS.
For carrying up to 4,000 lb items. But these are crazy heavy, like 100 lbs. each.
You should have some basic furniture repair materials on hand, but if the repair is beyond you, call AGMC to see if Phil can fix the problem.
Hydrolic lifter. It raises an item evenly and perfectly level, up to any exact height you need (up to about 4 feet high). Capacity up to 1200 Lbs.
Perfect for things like an 500 lb. fish tank needing to be lifted up onto its support table, while held perfectly level at the exact right height. This is what we used for this fish tank. Phil can run it out to you.
A custom hot tub dolly & trailer than can be borrowed.
Plywood planks to roll a hot tub or piano on over grass or gravel.
The Spa Sled can slide a hot tub or any heavy thing across grass, gravel or pavement, without plywood boards. This is the most stable way of moving a hot tub across these surfaces because it causes the widest base of support, while not allowing any unwanted "rolling away".
The ground elevation of carry is also the best for getting under low overhangs and the easiest to tip the hot tub up and down. All of these things together make this the best overall way to move a hot tub over these surfaces.
Borrow Phil's other trailer (besides the green one). This red one is in brand spanking new condition (absolutely reliable for long hauls), and is rated for 1800 lbs.
Plywood planks to roll things over. Even useful to protect slate floors.
If you don't have some lights and run into a night-time very dark situation, it can be an emergency to have to have lighting. Phil can run these out to you if it's a real emergency.
Borrow Phil's farm jack, for tilting super heavy things off the ground, like the edge of a extra large hot tub that's too heavy to just lift up.
EQUIPMENT THAT AGMC DOESN'T HAVE
A powered stair climber we can rent anytime.
If the job needs a bulldozer, forklift or crane to do it safely and professionally, we can get one. If it feels dangerous or like a big struggle, it's being done wrong. We can rent what ever else is needed.
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