<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [CAUT] colton spider dolly</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Hey, Debra, You can definitely install a stage truck by yourself.  I have done it a number of times. Buy a “Jack-in-a-Box”, or build one. I got an inexpensive hydraulic bottle jack at the hardware store and made a post to put it on by screwing together eight lengths of 2X4, and put a plywood cap on each end. A picture is attached.  Jack up each leg of the piano, set the truck under it, and let it back down.  I like to start with the back leg, but I don’t think it matters much which you start with.  Cut two short 2X4 scraps, 3-4” long, and set one on the floor under each leg & truck before you let the jack down.  This will prevent the weight of the piano making the other end of the truck lift up in the air.  You may have to jack it back up a bit to get the block out when you’re done. Perhaps this would be a good subject for a mini-technical? Regards, Ken Z. On 5/25/06 9:45 AM, "Debra Feiger" <debra_feiger@yahoo.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE>Hello fellow techs    I am still a new to this list and really appreciate your help as I settle into my new university position at UCSD.  We are looking to purchase two spider dollies for two grand pianos (SS B and SS L) so that we can keep them positioned on them and easily move the pianos as needed.  This is s.o.p. for the university.  Facilities has typically gone through the local steinway dealer who sells the unit and comes to install it.  The price seems rather steep and I am wondering what other universities use and from whom they purchase their dollies.  Thanks for your help.      Debra   <HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="1" WIDTH="100%">Do you Yahoo!?  Everyone is raving about the  all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=40791/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handraisers"><http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=40791/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handraisers></a> </BLOCKQUOTE> -- Ken Zahringer, RPT University of Missouri School of Music </BODY> </HTML>