#9 pods loading

This PODS was loaded twice, first by one mover team (pictured above) then, then it was emptied and loaded again a second time with the exact same items by a second mover team (pictured next).     

First, just take a general quick look at the difference in appearances between the first and second loads, then well do some specific comparisons.

1st Load

1st Load

1st Load

All that wood on wood is going to get scratched up.

1st Load

This chair was pressed into the soft vinyl of this massage table, which would have left an impression.

1st Load

More wood-on-wood contact, likely would get scratched at contact points.

1st Load

A jumble of different sized boxes, with a big heavy one on top of a small one, likely going to smash the small one, and leave the top one able to fly all over the place.

1st Load

Huge gaps were left between areas and all over the place, allowing things to tip, tumble and crush.

1st Load

This heavy box is already crushing down the box below (before the PODS has even been moved), because the boxes aren't lined up square and are not "tight", having gaps all over.

1st Load

This is the size of the gap that was on the back side of the box shown in the last two pictures.   These Huge gaps allow things to tip, crush and cause damage, besides wasting space.

1st Load

The back corner braces of PODS stich way out and need to be handled with skilled techniques just for this situation. If you put an item to the back wall it leaves a big gap on the side wall, but if you put the item to the side wall it leaves a big gap on the back wall.  What do you do to make the load tight?

2nd Load

2nd Load

1st Load

Two chairs rubbing against two other wooden pieces of furniture, with many bare wood contact/rub points.   Also the one chair back is digging into the bare vinyl of the massage table shown at the bottom of this previous picture.

2nd Load.

The same chairs pad-wrapped and fitting tight into each other shown in the upper right of this last picture.   The the same vinyl massage table is now pad-wrapped tucked snug between box and the right side of the PODS, shown in this previous picture.  This also looks ten times better because it's tightly packed and pad-wrapped.

1st Load

In Load #1 this computer tower was just laying on it's side loose, laying on a table top in the PODS, so for Load #2 the loaders had the item brought back into the house for proper packing into a padded box, and then that box was loaded snug between other boxes so it couldn't fly about if the PODS container was jolted or bounced in a harsh manner.  Remember, these PODS containers are slammed around by giant fork lifts, and so unsecured things can also be tossed about.

2nd Load

All the wooden items that weren't pad-wrapped at all (or were pad-wrapped poorly)  in load #1 were well pad-wrapped in a professional looking manner for load #2.

1st Load

This load is not strapped down, is loose with lots of gaps which could shift around and not only damage things but also shift against the back door and pin the door closed.  And it looks bad, actually embarrassing, and the REAL customer this job was being done for was very upset when he and his wife saw this.   He said "I thought I was getting a white glove service until I saw this".

2nd Load

This load is strapped in tight, won't allow damage, and impresses the customer.  The other several bare wooden shelves that had no pad-wrapping in Load #1 are all pad-wrapped here in the 2nd Load.  The customer walked up and gave a tug on these ratchet straps holding everything in tight and said "I'm so glad you came out to fix this".