Ended up not using the dock, they have shelves behind it.
So, we unloaded the printing press onto the ground.
Couldn’t pick the pallets up with the forklift because of the length of the product. The pieces were screwed down to the pallets, and the pallets were screwed down to the floor.
Long wood screws, so lots of daylight showing through my floor that will have to be fixed before I reload again. Securing to my floor is not happening on my next trailer.
Anyway, first pallet, we I screwed the two pieces and carried them inside. There were three of us, but that stopped after the first pallet.
We proceeded to unscrew the pieces, flip them on the pallet, then pull them off with a forklift. You could move them with a pallet jack, just not a forklift. So, 9 pallets worth of that nonsense.
The base of the machine was up front. Heaviest piece, 4500 pounds. I strapped it, pulled it to the back with a pallet jack, then proceeded to shrink wrap it because it was raining and the only tarps they had were out in the rain on the ground.
The machine was far heavier than the rating of the forklift, but we managed with it. Barely.
And of course we were on a slope, so all that crap was pallet jacked up hill.
Still east money, as they needed it delivered and paid a premium for it. Tech will be there Monday morning to reassemble all the pieces and set it up.
Checked out some of their shirts and hats, they do pretty good work. Grabbed a catalog from the owner and may check in to them making some shirts.
