Any good tradesman knows that he will indeed end up blaming his tools if he does not have the correct equipment. This is the place to start, but also the place to end for many people, since the cost of obtaining the right tools will outweigh the cost of hiring a professional mover for ‘one off’ moves.
1) A piano trolley with good sized wheels. Often professionals use pneumatic wheels which cope with uneven surfaces better. Furniture skates designed for indoor use can be useless, even disastrous for outside use, since their small wheels catch on and exaggerate any deformity on the ground. For example, they might sink into a gravel drive, hit a raised pavement slab, and most likely, make a mountain out of the smallest step.
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I get this question all of the time. Whenever I am at a cocktail party or out with friends and they ask me what I do, I tell them I sell Piano Dollies. I get a blank stare right back at me. Give me a few minutes of your time and I will set the record straight for the world to see what a piano dolly is and why it is one of the most useful tools on the planet.
Piano dollies, plain and simple, are tools used to move a piano. They take lots of shapes and sizes and can vary quite a bit in their actual function but the general concept is the same for all piano dollies – they move pianos.
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The fourth definition of the word “Dolly” when looked up in the dictionary is “any of several kinds of low, flat, wheeled frames for transporting heavy objects, as in a factory”. The first definition is that of a child’s toy. I like to combine the two dictionary definitions when describing a piano dolly by saying that a piano dolly is tool that can make moving a piano as easy and fun as playing with a child’s toy. Nice oversimplification, I know, but you get the point.
If you have ever tried to move a piano without the aid of a piano dolly you will certainly understand the need to have a tool to help you out. Pianos are huge, heavy and do not have convenient places to hold onto when transporting them. Pianos are also expensive and to risk damaging a leg of a grand piano or having an upright fall down on its side is too great to even consider. The final consideration, and any piano mover will tell you the most important, is that of safety. With pianos weighing sometimes as much as 1300 lbs, the people who move them need to be careful to not get injured. It simply is not practical for a human to pick up most models of pianos by hand. It is also not practical to try to drag a piano across a floor. The damage to the floor could be tremendous if you were to try. All of the reasons stated are why we have piano dollies.
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