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How to you load an 810 alone?
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Mine is a billy goat. He'd have no trouble reaching the truck floor in one leap.
My 1st gigging cabs were a 4x12 bassman and then 4 x 12 Ampeg.
I'd grab the bar, wheeled it out to my Toyota wagon, tilted it in -no lifting- and pushed it in.
If I encountered stairs, well, that's why you have a drummer!
Then I got a SWR 4x10. ~90l bs. Carried a dolly, but still had to dead-lift it 4 times a night.
I learned to lift with the knees.
(My knees are bone on bone now. That's how THAT works...)
I'd grab the bar, wheeled it out to my Toyota wagon, tilted it in -no lifting- and pushed it in.
If I encountered stairs, well, that's why you have a drummer!
Then I got a SWR 4x10. ~90l bs. Carried a dolly, but still had to dead-lift it 4 times a night.
I learned to lift with the knees.
(My knees are bone on bone now. That's how THAT works...)
FWIW, my current 8x10 is the Bergantino NV610. To my ears it delivers all the goodness of the classic 8x10 (and arguably more), but in a smaller, lighter package.
That said, a 100lb 6x10 is still not easy to move. So, I only use it for louder gigs, and only in venues that have a reasonably flat load-in: in those cases, the NV610 tilts and rolls quite nicely, the only issue is getting it in and out of my SUV.
For gigs where I don't need the volume, I go with smaller, lighter cabinets. Usually modular; e.g. a pair of neo 1x12 cabs.
With the Stoopid Loud Rock Band I was in for awhile, I would use a pair of Bergantino 3x10 cabs for difficult load-ins: neo speakers, each cab around 35 pounds. But my ears prefer ceramic, so if the load-in wasn't bad I'd roll out my NV610.
That said, a 100lb 6x10 is still not easy to move. So, I only use it for louder gigs, and only in venues that have a reasonably flat load-in: in those cases, the NV610 tilts and rolls quite nicely, the only issue is getting it in and out of my SUV.
For gigs where I don't need the volume, I go with smaller, lighter cabinets. Usually modular; e.g. a pair of neo 1x12 cabs.
With the Stoopid Loud Rock Band I was in for awhile, I would use a pair of Bergantino 3x10 cabs for difficult load-ins: neo speakers, each cab around 35 pounds. But my ears prefer ceramic, so if the load-in wasn't bad I'd roll out my NV610.
You are correct. I just remembered that my brother helped me create two metal "rails" that acted as glides over steps, and extended down just 1/2" above the wheels so that stairs wouldn't get caught in that little notch between the wheels and the cabinet. Without those glides, moving it was twice as hard.
So Anyway, may I present Ampeg's weight/footprint champion, the PR1528.
One 15 pointed to the floor, and two 8's on top. 156 pounds.
Got to play it out a couple of times....it could really shake a dance floor.
When I tried to sell it, everyone the way it sounded. But no one wanted to move it. It wasn't tall enough to do the tilt maneuver. It had to be dead-lifted.
It was meant to be in some venue's backline.
One 15 pointed to the floor, and two 8's on top. 156 pounds.
Got to play it out a couple of times....it could really shake a dance floor.
When I tried to sell it, everyone the way it sounded. But no one wanted to move it. It wasn't tall enough to do the tilt maneuver. It had to be dead-lifted.
It was meant to be in some venue's backline.
Boombass seemst to be capitolisizing on the concept now and claiming it's an origional idea....
Boom Bass Cabinets BBC Matrix - 2x10" and 1x15" 2200-watt Bass Cabinet - Red
Has build in wheels and luggage rack handle. At 50 lbs, not a bad lifter.
And I'd put good money on the sales numbers of them being a tiny fraction of smaller, equally loud, and much lighter cabs. Ampeg will always make them because, tradition.
I flip it around so the front is facing away from back of car. I tilt it back so the rear plastic guards are the slide guides. I lift from the bottom and slide it on in. Easy!
No one has mentioned the worst part of moving an Ampeg 810 - after you're done, you still gotta move the SVT head 
In the 70's, I used to haul a 2x15 Fender bass cab up flights of stairs along with my blackface Bassman amp. I have learned better.
We must have been sniffing the same kind of glue, I've been dreaming about something similar to this too! Fridge-style box, but with vertical array of 4x10 to one side, and room for a bass to the other for me, please ;-)
8 being too much sure, but 4 drivers to handle the high powered amps of today WITHOUT strain is still valid. What this thread points at though, most people love the tall cabs for having speakers closer to your ears. Most topics like 'what 4x10' ends up in bunch of replies 'buy two 2x10s and stack vertically'. Surely, there is a market for a cab like this, a tall tower that's as easy/difficult to handle as a trolley bag, yet weighs at the maximum what a 4x12 guitar cab does?
