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This is just a reminder for all you's shopping during this holiday season. Density is really really important.
So I just bought a new cabinet for my knives. I went to the pick up counter and the guy wheeled out this little (long but skinny) package. I took one look at it and my dim little 20 watt lightbulb went up (small=light).
Nope, this sucker weighed about 160 pounds, according to the box. As if that wasn't enough, I was parked about three hundred feet away. So here I am with this box outside the store pickup area with this box that I could barely lift. Did I go back and correct myself and say I couldn't handle it and ask to borrow a cart? Nope, I just had to be stubborn and lug this box all the way to my car by myself.
Well, six pulled muscles two anurisms and a hernia later, I got it to my car but I'm not finished yet I've got to somehow muster the energy to lift this four foot long 160 pound box up and put it in my.... Hundai Elantra.... at this point I realized how ill conceived this plan really was. This was when I took measurement # two into acount. Would this thing fit into my car. It was immediately apparent that I would need to lower the back seat so I did that, after arranging my work stuff (axes, tool boxes, sledge hammers, rope) I was ready to put the box in. Brilliant idea III I tried to put the box in trough the back seat then I had my first good idea, it would be easier to put it in through the trunk, it was thankfully.
So I'm completely exhausted and a whole crowd of people were watching me load this monster (I guess none saw it fit to help). So now I'm tired and I have a disassembled cabinet waiting to be put together all over the floor; and when I got in the car I hit my elbow on the corner of the box. This is only one out of five memorable things that have happened to me today.
The moral of this story is: 1. think before you do. and 2. Density, rather that size, is an important factor when considering liftability.
So I just bought a new cabinet for my knives. I went to the pick up counter and the guy wheeled out this little (long but skinny) package. I took one look at it and my dim little 20 watt lightbulb went up (small=light).
Nope, this sucker weighed about 160 pounds, according to the box. As if that wasn't enough, I was parked about three hundred feet away. So here I am with this box outside the store pickup area with this box that I could barely lift. Did I go back and correct myself and say I couldn't handle it and ask to borrow a cart? Nope, I just had to be stubborn and lug this box all the way to my car by myself.
Well, six pulled muscles two anurisms and a hernia later, I got it to my car but I'm not finished yet I've got to somehow muster the energy to lift this four foot long 160 pound box up and put it in my.... Hundai Elantra.... at this point I realized how ill conceived this plan really was. This was when I took measurement # two into acount. Would this thing fit into my car. It was immediately apparent that I would need to lower the back seat so I did that, after arranging my work stuff (axes, tool boxes, sledge hammers, rope) I was ready to put the box in. Brilliant idea III I tried to put the box in trough the back seat then I had my first good idea, it would be easier to put it in through the trunk, it was thankfully.
So I'm completely exhausted and a whole crowd of people were watching me load this monster (I guess none saw it fit to help). So now I'm tired and I have a disassembled cabinet waiting to be put together all over the floor; and when I got in the car I hit my elbow on the corner of the box. This is only one out of five memorable things that have happened to me today.
The moral of this story is: 1. think before you do. and 2. Density, rather that size, is an important factor when considering liftability.
