[78-L] Pack em up and move em out

[David Lennick]

And tomorrow you'll have another trunkload, which Darrell sent up to Lewiston and which I picked up this afternoon. 20 bundles (I forget how many are in each bundle). They just love me at that post office.

dl


 
> From: stevenc at interlinks.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:12:28 -0400
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Pack em up and move em out
> 
> From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <bratcher at pdq.net>
> > At 06:43 PM 7/29/2010, you wrote:
> >>When I moved five years ago, I self-packed and self-moved about 11,000
> >>78s and 10,000 LPs and other assorted musical media, magazines, books,
> >>etc. All the records were packed in sturdy boxes. I stacked the 78s
> >>(all in sleeves) horizontally, with dividers every 15 records or so. I
> >>did not fill the box to the top but left room for packing material at
> >>the top. Before putting anything in a box, I first put a divider on the
> >>bottom to smooth out any uneven areas and spread the weight of the
> >>records evenly. To pack the box, I used either newsprint packing paper,
> >>which I got from U-Haul, or newspapers. I would shape crude rolls of
> >>paper which I would then pack around the sides of each stack, from
> >>bottom to top. I would place another divider on top of the records and
> >>then pack in more paper so nothing could move in any direction. In
> >>essence, each box was a block. I then sealed each box with Post Office
> >>packing tape . With a felt-tip marking pen, I numbered each box and
> >>identified the general contents by label or principal artist. Only two
> >>78s broke. All the LPs arrived in perfect shape.
> > Last time I moved all my records about 11 years ago it was a self 
> > (just me) pack & move of them with a U'Haul truck I rented for the 
> > local move. Thankfully no breakage but I'd prefer not to move them 
> > ever again. That last time was enough!! 
> > 
> Back in late 1997, my shellac archive (then around 18,000 records) was
> moved for me from Toronto to Oshsawa Ont'o...all still in their
> milk boxes! (I wasn't asked to help or advise...!). The only 78's that
> didn't survive intact were a very few that were in partly-full crates.
> 
> However, the "movers" stupidly rented a 5-ton cube van for the
> trip...they weren't aware I owned about EIGHT tons of 78's! When
> they loaded the van, there was still quite a bit of space left; however
> the van was clearly OVERloaded with the rear tires rubbing on
> their wheel wells.
> 
> I now own around THIRTY tons of 78's; UCSB wants me to leave
> them my collection (I assume they can arrange the requisite
> 18-wheeler[s?] for that move...?!)
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
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