| THG: Use a stick for leverage. The cane is a stick |
6ixStringJack: Wish I was close and could help out. We'd get you set up right. I'm sure you'll get it all taken care of soon.
Man... I did something to my off-hand wrist in the last 5 or so hours. I don't even know what. It was while I was out shopping, and now I move it the wrong way and there's just shooting pain almost up to my elbow. I must have slept on it wrong and then pulled something while I'm Herculesing my stuff inside instead of taking 2 trips. I'm sure all this constant typing isn't helping. If I'm not typing on my computer to work, I'm taking a break and typing here.  |
| Brenda: I'm not that old THG and my family's mobility stays good. |
| Brenda: I am going to try and get to talk to the person tomorrow. I hope they can help me again. |
| Brenda: I should be able to use a crowbar if I can find one. No luck today but I will look again tomorrow. |
| THG: |
| 6ixStringJack: I hope you can get the person who helped back to help move it back soon. I really think that's your best option. |
| 6ixStringJack: Don't even know what a crowbar would go for these days since it's been years since I bought one. If you went that route, I think you'd need a big one at least 2 to 3ft long, and you'd need to put something under it to protect the floor and probably at the crow end of it to protect your bedframe (maybe not since it's metal... that's really up to you). But you'd still have to figure out how to safely put enough weight on the other end of the crowbar while also being able to slip the plate under the leg. I don't know how nimble you are these days, and I'd hate to be recommending anything to you that could get you hurt. |
| Brenda: Yeah, I think you are right. Have to see if I can get the person who helped me correct a mistake I made putting the frame together, can come by again. I hate metal frames. |
| Brenda: No, I am sure it isn't. But there must be a cheap kind of bar I can get somewhere for this type of grunt work. |
| Brenda: Yeah, I was thinking about leverage after my first attempt yesterday. Looking around at what I can use. |
| THG: |
| 6ixStringJack: Getting help is going to be your easiest way if you can't lift a corner on your own for sure. |
| 6ixStringJack: Google's not much help on this one. They say to get a helper, or use a crowbar, or buy an expensive furniture lifter that you'd only use this one time. |
| 6ixStringJack: Ted's idea of leverage might help you out with that one. I'm wondering how we can rig something up that you could leverage each leg up while also being able to kick a plate under it. |
| Brenda: I gotcha. Just have to take another run at it. |
| Brenda: Sorry, I meant that I can't lift the legs onto the plates. They are pretty low and it is awkward. |
| 6ixStringJack: Once you've got the plates under each leg, you should have a much easier time pushing the whole bed, even if just bit by bit. That way you don't have small legs or wheels that are buried in the fabric and you've got the entire surface area of each plate redistributing the weight onto a much larger surface at each corner. |
6ixStringJack: I mean lift each corner leg onto a plate. If you were going to push them onto the plate, you could just push the bed into the wall without them.  |
| THG: |