How to you load an 810 alone?

[cnltb]

How to you load an 810 alone?
I wouldn't.

 

[bassinflorida]

I see a lot people say a 410hlf is harder to move than an 810e.... I have both and I'm not really sure I follow the logic. I can carry my 410 up and down steps wtih no help... the 810 requires an appliance dolly, 2 ratchet straps, a back brace, and 3 tylonol (with codine)

I can lift the 410 up and down from my tailgate and wheel it in and out.

How do you get on loading an 810 alone? Do you tilt it back first, and then lift at the bottom end and slide it on the skid pads? I usually recruit help, and then load it in and out wheels first.

Sounds like you already have it figured out.

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

Not to derail, but is there a real psychological effect that leads us all to believe heavier cabs, amps and even basses, make more better bassy sounds than “light” stuff?

Bro, just putting on a heavier neck gives you more bass. Actual, proven fact.

Put a warmoth Tele neck on a P bass, then put your P neck back on, then put the Tele neck back on. You'll see.

 

[TexasEdition]

Why are using a dolly with an 810? Most of them have wheels and a handle built in

For the steps. If you are trying to drag that thing up and down steps without a dolly with large wheels or stair gliders you end up tearing up the cabinet and the steps.

 

[TexasEdition]

I used to have an Ampeg "4015" I think it was..... 4x10, 1x15, built-in wheels. /QUOTE]

That was the 1504 I think.

 

[MJ_Sotti]

From AmpegTV

The fact that they even have to make a video like this amazes me. Doesn't anyone have any common sense anyomore?

Anyway, I have a Berg 610 and the 810E I had was easier to move. It's taller. I had a 410HLF for one gig. I'd rather have a regular 'ol 410.

 

[beans-on-toast]

The fact that they even have to make a video like this amazes me. Doesn't anyone have any common sense anyomore?

Anyway, I have a Berg 610 and the 810E I had was easier to move. It's taller. I had a 410HLF for one gig. I'd rather have a regular 'ol 410.

The extra height of the 810 helps leaver it in like in the video. My old SVT in an ATA case on wheels was way more difficult to manage. For that I used a ¾” thick plywood ramp to roll it up into the back of the vehicle.

I heard of someone that had an 810 in the back, they slammed on their brakes on a highway. The cab went flying forward. After that I always tied it down.

 

[JohnnyChatter]

If you can lift a 410hlf up and down stairs your can pull an 810 up some stairs. I rather move an 810 any day. Would I rather play live with an 810 is a different story. I get tired of sound me giving me the eye and ******* remarks.

 

[azureblue]

Leverage, cardboard, and a furniture / refrigerator dolly with stairclimbers. The cardboard makes it easy to slide out of the vehicle, and protects the tolex. I had a wagon, so roll the cabinet up to the back, put the cardboard between the car and the cabinet, tilt the cabinet up and slide it in. Easy.

A proper dolly makes it much easier to get it up stairs. It always seemed that when it was time to load out, and I needed help with the 810, there was no one around..

 

[mrperkolator]

How do you get on loading an 810 alone?

Have you read Tom Sawyer? Use the method he did for the fence.

 

[bassdude51]

With a crane.

 

[MVE]

The extra height of the 810 helps leaver it in like in the video. My old SVT in an ATA case on wheels was way more difficult to manage. For that I used a ¾” thick plywood ramp to roll it up into the back of the vehicle.

I heard of someone that had an 810 in the back, they slammed on their brakes on a highway. The cab went flying forward. After that I always tied it down.

A 747 military transport crashed in Iraq years ago when tanks that weren’t properly secured started sliding around.
Pretty much the same thing, sorta.

 

[bassliner50]

Cortisone injections between L4 L5.

 

[Hasty]

People still use them 8x10 things? That's crazy, I have a 156x2 cab that weighs 1.5lbs less and is easily nearly as loud.

I bet the mechanical excursion is a sight to behold.

 

[A9X]

Actual, proven fact.

Cool. Then you'll be able to provide actual, proven evidence, not anecdote to back this up, right?

 

[Honkey tonk]

Loading dock or ramp

 

[BtaylorTheRogue]

The unhelpful bit:
How do I load an 810 alone? With one hand.

I load and unload my 810 alone and with one hand.


The helpful bit that's already been covered:
SLIDE RAILS. WHEELS. HANDLE.
If your cab doesn't have these, you're gonna have a bad time.
Judging by the OP, you already know the technique, and just want assurance that it's correct.

For the steps. If you are trying to drag that thing up and down steps without a dolly with large wheels or stair gliders you end up tearing up the cabinet and the steps.

I have, insofar, damaged neither my cab, the steps, or the concrete curbs I regularly drag my bad across.

Other than vertical height, they take up literally zero extra stage floorspace compared to a 410.

If I had a penny for every time I had to explain this.

 

[xsnrg27]

I used to have the ampeg 4x10, 1x15 version of this and I don’t miss loading that thing at all.

 

[andrus108]

Obviously, if big cabs are still a draw, why no manufacturers make 8x10-style cabs in terms of dimensions, but use for example four 12 inch neodymium speakers instead? Only GK made one, though now they stopped.

 

[Leon 1110]

I used to carry 2 up 6 flights of stairs to a gig every weekend. the old ones with 3 handles and no wheels. I picked them up and went up no problem. I was 23. Now Im 72 and its a fender rumble head and eden 210 XLT's.