If you have not yet read all 3 pages of our piano moving warnings regarding the risks and dangers of Diy piano moving please go to piano warnings. If you have read all of our warnings and you still want to move a piano yourself to save labor costs then let's determine your piano moving costs to obtain the proper equipment to do the job.
EQUIPMENT There are two pieces of basic piano moving equipment, the dolly and the humpstrap pictured above and below that are absolutely necessary to move pianos. These must be obtained as a part of your piano moving preparation.
Without using this basic piano moving equipment you cannot take advantage of balance to move your piano, and you cannot protect the bottom and sides of the piano from scuffing as you move it. You need to obtain:
It is somewhat similar to other rubber-capped dollies in the moving industry, but it has a couple of major improvements over most other moving dollies that make it absolutely perfect for piano moving. The first thing that makes it special is that it has four-inch high, soft rubber wheels with two sets of ball bearings, one set around the axle and one set around the swivels (pictured below) for extremely easy wheel rolling and turning movements with heavy loads like pianos. |
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Other kinds of piano moving dollies are harder to push because they have smaller hard rubber wheels on a rod axle and only one set of ball bearings around the swivels. Our soft rubber swiveling wheels will not mar hardwood / tile / marble / slate / stone / linoleum floors. If kept clean they will not dirty or stain the carpets either .
The second thing that makes our piano dolly really special is that it has custom-carved rounded strong hardwood crossbars.
These are very easily gripped by the movers positioned on the bottom of the piano as the piano is being carried.Other dollies in the moving industry have wide, flat crossbars that are not as strong as ours and can't be so easily gripped. So they put unnecessary strain on piano movers because they offer them only a poor handhold while they're lifting or lowering the piano on stairs.
As the action picture above illustrates, the two bottom people can get their shoulders firmly braced under the piano and tightly anchor themselves to it with a firm hand grip on this dolly's crossbars while carrying it over stairs. We believe that the top quality wheels and the carved rounded thick hardwood crossbars make our piano dollies absolutely the best to be found anywhere in the moving industry.
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