Moving a 610 cab up & downstairs without help?

[SgtHulka]

Plastic skateboard rails on each end side of the cab. Slide up. Easy.

 

[Kmonk]

I have an 810 that I have to bring up and down stairs to get it out of my house. It's not as difficult as you think. When going down stairs, just stand behind the cab and grab the bar on the back. Slowly lower the cab one step at a time. When you have to bring it back in your house, stand behind the cab with your back to the stairs. Step up one step at a time and pull the cab up on each step as you step up.

I actually find it more difficult to move my 410 by myself because it doesn't have a bar on the back so I have wrap my arms around it and grab the handles on each side and actually pick up the cab and carry up and down the stairs.

 

[Nevada Pete]

May I kindly mention that as far as I'm concerned, being a musician, especially a bass player requires certain adaptations to your life style. One of them is to live on the ground floor only. It's as simple as that.

You really want to risk serious physical injury including long-term medical consequences as a result of hurting yourself, or maybe even death in the middle of the night on your stairway?

Plain and simple: It just doesn't make sense to live above the ground floor if your moving gear in and out of your domicile. That's your problem. Not what kind of bass cab you own.

You'll have to make your own choices regarding whether your willing to play gigs where stairs are involved. By and large, I don't want anything to do with stairs. Period. If there's no stage hands, roadies or no elevator, I'm not interested. Nope.

 

[johnson79]

I have moved my 810 up and down a flight of stairs by myself. The trick is to go one step at a time. It sucks but can be done. I hold the bar, balance myself above, and either pull up or gently ease it down, kind of like I'm doing a rowing machine if that makes sense.

 

[OogieWaWa]

Experience point: if someone offers to help you with it on a cart,most times they'll make it worse. They'll push up on the front bottom. All that does is pivot it and shift all the weight off of the wheels and onto you, and it also lifts the bottom back off of the cart shelf!!! Then it gets real ugly fast. Trust me, I know. Have them get beside you on the handles, or help by lifting from the strap if there isn't any room. Lift the cart, NOT the load.

 

[chris_b]

You want to carry a 120lb cab (plus all your other gear) up 2 floors at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning? Sorry but IMO no sound is "great" enough to warrant the use of that amount of energy and the heightened risk of back and joint damage.

 

[pappabass]

Don't do it, said from experience. After herniated disk, back strains, spinal injections, buying my chiropractor a new boat

 

[beaglesandbass]

Tomorrow I'm looking at a used Ampeg V4B & 610HLF cab. I'm a little concerned about moving the big cab & it could be unrealistic. I live in a four unit apartment, on the second floor & I will have to move it in & out for gigs.

There's about 5 or 6 steps, then a landing & 5 or 6 more. I know it weighs about 120#. I currently use a Gallien Krueger NEO 410 which apparently weighs around 70#. I usually just bear hug it & move it about.

Am I delusional thinking I can move this cab up & down stairs by myself? Do that casters & big handle help?

Yes IMO you're delusional. I wouldn't even take the 4x10 up and down steps regularly. Your situation makes a great case for the newer lighter combos. Since you have a GK cab already, look at the GK MB212. 500 full watts (no extension needed) through 2 12" speakers, weighing only 40lbs.

If you're determined to keep the big amps I would go to Home Depot and have a piece of plywood cut so you can just throw that on the stairs and wheel it up. Still too much effort IMO.

 

[Stewie]

If it's the look you are jonesing for, grab a pair of SVT 15Es. I have the older ones with the 3/4 inch plywood boxes, the newer ones are 5/8 I think, and are even lighter. I can carry the 15Es up stairs by myself fairly easily. You can use one for smaller gigs, or the whole stack for the bigger ones, or when you just want to look like a rockstar

 

[bassinflorida]

Pictures alone will nmot suffice.
You must have a friend video you moving this up to your apartment. If that is successful then a second video of the trip down is also a must.
Rock On!

 

[Ostie]

I have no doubt you can do it. The question is, how long before you get tired of doing it?

 

[nilorius]

Hard.....ask your grandmother.

 

[Mosfed]

Buy a Barefaced and do it with one hand

 

[ctmullins]

Two 3x10s, yes, sure.

One 6x10, nope.

 

[bassliner50]

You won't be schlepping that cab up/down stairs for long. Better to understand that now.

 

[And I]

I'm considering a 2x10 or 2x12, but, only because I feel the 410 Neo is particularly woofy or bass heavy.

The GK Neo 115 is actually the most mid-focused of their Neo line, and it's about 40 lbs. Two of the 115s would make for two much easier trips up and down those stairs.

 

[Warpeg]

I have moved my 810 up and down a flight of stairs by myself. The trick is to go one step at a time. It sucks but can be done. I hold the bar, balance myself above, and either pull up or gently ease it down, kind of like I'm doing a rowing machine if that makes sense.

This.

I had a SVT-610HLF and a SVT-810E for a few years when I had a 3rd floor apartment with no elevator. This was when I was in my 20's and more "energetic" than I am now. The only way to get those cabs up and down the stairs was one step at a time. It took forever, but it was the safest and easiest way that I could come up with.

 

[Dr. Love]

Been there, won't do it again. I loaded a fridge sized rig up and down stairs a few times a week for a couple years because it was the only option. Now, I'd go with multiple smaller cabs over one giant one, especially with stairs in the mix...too much opportunity for mishaps. The last thing you want is to fall down the stairs with a 120 pound cab following you at high speed.

 

[bassdude51]

I'm not going to try to go into written detail on how to make it..............but you can make a slide out of plywood and with a rope, let it slowly slide down the stairs and you can slide it up also. Don't know how your landlord and fellow tenants will feel about ya doing this.

You might be able to wrap a big piece of carpet around your 6-10 and slide it too.

I had to move a washing machine down to the basement and slide it on the stairs.

Or you could buy 3, 2-10 cabs. Or get a ground level apartment.

 

[pbassnut]

Tomorrow I'm looking at a used Ampeg V4B & 610HLF cab. I'm a little concerned about moving the big cab & it could be unrealistic. I live in a four unit apartment, on the second floor & I will have to move it in & out for gigs.

There's about 5 or 6 steps, then a landing & 5 or 6 more. I know it weighs about 120#. I currently use a Gallien Krueger NEO 410 which apparently weighs around 70#. I usually just bear hug it & move it about.

Am I delusional thinking I can move this cab up & down stairs by myself? Do that casters & big handle help?

Even if you're a young buck who's currently healthy, consider the future and the possible damage to your body that you could incur by regularly schlepping that bad boy up and down stairs. I played in busy touring bands for most of my twenties and hauled a whole lotta heavy equipment including a 5 1/2 year stint with a '73 "blue line" SVT head and a Sunn Concert Bass 2x15 cabinet loaded with a pair of JBL K-140s. Now that I'm in my sixties I have chronic back and neck problems that I'm confident had their genesis in my "glory days" playing a lotta gigs and hauling old school "lead sled" equipment. There are good sounding lightweight rig options that were never available back in the day ... take advantage of them and save your body for the long haul.