Dual trucks

[Phil Manning]

Hello Chet

I have a set of Jansen dual trucks that I use to move my Hammond 
consoles. I think there are better/cheaper/safer piano dolly options 
available if you're just moving pianos around the shop. For example:

http://www.vandaking.com/us-shop/itemdo-106.html

You could by 3 sets of these upright dollies for the price of one pair 
of dual trucks.

Organ consoles (for which the dual trucks are designed) are much lighter 
than upright pianos, as such it is certainly possible for one strong 
person to strap the dollies to a Hammond console for easy moving. 
Setting the dollies however, involves some lifting/manhandling so I 
personally would avoid using the dual tucks on a heavy upright without 
some help.

cheers, Phil





Chet Kieffer wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I'm a newbie working my way through Randy Potter's course.  I have 
> three old uprights in my garage that are in various stages of 
> regulation, tuning and deconstruction.  With winter coming I want to 
> move them around and I've been looking at these dual truck dollies 
> that I can use on my own.  One is Roll-or-Kari and the other is by 
> Jansen.  Near as I can tell the Jansen has swiveling wheels that can 
> be locked and the Kari has swivels on one dolly and locked on the 
> other.  Otherwise, they're equal.  Also special long straps will have 
> to be required by either to get around an upright.
>
> So I'm wondering if anyone has had experience with these devices.  
> Will they handle a heavy old upright?  Are there problems working 
> around the casters?  Of course mine have some missing casters anyway 
> which is the root of the problem.  :-}
>
> Any ideas are appreciated.
>
> Chet
>
>
>