Auction haul moving - 1600lbs of blueprint drawers

Sweet score. Those will hold alot of tooling.
 
Nice score. I went through looking for ones like yours and stumbled on a set that I kick myself for not pursing. My problem with the ones you have is they are too deep for my cramped shop. The set of 8 drawer cabs were 40”w but only 18” deep. They came out of a school and were used for storing and organizing video tapes. So I’m keeping my radar tuned for those. I love shallow drawers for most all my tools. I also like finding middle tool boxes as they are often shallow drawers and can be built into benches and not have to worry about the top opening.
 
Nice buy. Was there a reason that you did not just remove the drawers from a unit for moving? I bet the frame was half of less of the total weight. I got a slightly damaged but new Vidmar at an auction and had to remove the drawers to be able to offload it out of the back of my pickup.
 
Boswell said:
Nice buy. Was there a reason that you did not just remove the drawers from a unit for moving? I bet the frame was half of less of the total weight. I got a slightly damaged but new Vidmar at an auction and had to remove the drawers to be able to offload it out of the back of my pickup.
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yeah a few reasons:
1) If I took the drawers out, I wouldn't have had room in the truck and trailer for the drawers and the units. I wasn't sure which way the units would end up positioned in the truck or trailer, and whether I would have access to reinstall the drawers. Or if the frames flexed because of the trailer's construction, and the drawers wouldn't be able to go back in
2) I was pressed for time, because of how I had to position my truck and trailer in their warehouse. I had to get in, load these, and get out because I was blocking in a large truck in the back of the warehouse as well as more waiting to get in. Additionally this was in a secure facility where I had to be escorted at all times, so there was general time pressure to not screw around
3) The drawers had unknown amounts of stuff in them that I did not want to make a mess of. Almost exclusively paper gaskets, but a mess I didn't want to create and have to deal with under the time pressure
4) The second set was able to be loaded with a forklift anyway
5) Some of the drawers were finicky, and I didn't have time to troubleshoot which ones could be removed or how to remove them, etc
6) Whe unloading at home, I was able to lift with the crane and at that point it made no difference whether there were drawers installed or not (1 ton powered chain hoist on a 2 ton gantry)
7) Except for the unit that was in the back of the truck -- which was positioned sideways to fit in the bed; so the drawers couldn't be opened let alone removed
8) (added in edit) -- also if I removed the drawers, there was a good chance I would ding/bend/damage them. Or, I would wonder upon finding damage later on whether I created that damage or it was pre-existing. The concern for damage is in large part due to the time pressure to get these loaded.

None of these reasons is particularly good, but painted an overall picture of "don't open that can of worms"
 
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