Anyone have any good recommendations for an equipment cart to shuffle IT/Telco equipment around between an office/colo ?
Id like something able to carry ~6 1U Dell servers at once, and maybe make it over an elevator gap without a running start. Collapsible would also be nice, if I can throw it in the back of a car once in a while is a big plus.
Thanks
-Mike
Are you talking about a case like these?
http://www.skbcases.com/industrial/products/prod-list.php?d=s11
We don't have one ourselves, but we have friends that do, and they love
them. Only downside is that they're a little heavy (especially with servers
in them) to lift in and out of a car's trunk. But you have the wheels once
you're on the ground.
-Chris
What's your budget?
I got some ad email from ServerLift (serverlift.com) a while back. It
wasn't justified for my environment, but the units did look really cool.
Too many options for this. At first I thought of
http://www.pelican.com/cases_detail.php?Case=0550 but the wheels are
not inline with what you are asking. I saw some other wheel options,
have a look around.
The standard heavy duty plastic rubbermaid carts with casters work great.
-mike
What's your budget?
I got some ad email from ServerLift (serverlift.com) a while back. It
wasn't justified for my environment, but the units did look really cool.
It was pretty clear that they had scraped NANOG for addresses at one
point, and I keep getting these unsolicited messages from one of their
pushy salespeople, which is pretty much the gold standard way to be
assured not to have any possibility of making a sale.
... JG
Get one of these. Lifetime warranty. We need more here because I can never keep up with mine.
I've used various versions of this:
http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?CatIds=&webid=454560&affix
edcode=WW
Locally a few stores have sold cheaper versions I've used where the
platform bent after loading 500lbs of UPS batteries on them.
Thanks,
Erik Soosalu
(Milwaulkee 150lb folding 2-wheel hand cart)
I've used one of these for the past couple years in datacenters and on city streets and it is very solid, especially given that price. There's also a larger version of it, not sure if HD carries it. Very well made. That said, my first one suffered infant mortality due to a defect in the plastic molding, but the second one has lasted a couple of years and some significant abuse without any signs of damage.
The only thing is that the bungee it comes with is worthless for anything beyond a lightly loaded milk crate, so pick up a set of bungees at the same time.
I get mine from the local Grainger store.
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:27:05 -0600
From: Michael Vallaly <nanog@nolatency.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Equipment Shuffing Cart RecommendationsAnyone have any good recommendations for an equipment cart to shuffle
IT/Telco equipment around between an office/colo ?Id like something able to carry ~6 1U Dell servers at once, and maybe
make it over an elevator gap without a running start. Collapsible would
also be nice, if I can throw it in the back of a car once in a while is a
big plus.
Look at medium-/heavy-duty luggage carts for luggage going on airplanes.
I've moved incredible loads -- like a half-dozen full-tower desktops _and_
a 20" CRT in one trip -- on a good _medium-duty_ one (similar to a "Clipper
200"). If I were buying one today, I'd look hard at a Clipper 450, or, if
I could justify the money, a Clipper 730, for the folding 'shelf' cum work-
surface.
Wesco and Kart-A-Bag are good brands too. You probably wont go far wrong
with any such in the (circa) $60 and up price range. double-check the wheel-
size (5" min, 6" better) though. They all go better over elevator gaps if
you pull rathe than push 'em. 
see <http://www.handtrucks.com/hand-trucks/folding-hand-trucks/4567+1579+2524.cfm>
for lot of possibilities
Note: I have no experience with that vendor, google images search led me to them.
We have one of t*he **10U Roto Shock Rack *units that Chris Rogers linked
to and we like it! It's probably the only transport case we haven't been
able to destroy in 4 months (when our busy season happens) and it's nearly
3 years old now and it's still kicking. It's big so you'll need transport
to match it and two people to lift it. The rest of the stuff we've managed
to destroy had the wheels fall off first but they've been made out
of aluminium frames that weren't made to handle the streets and roads of
Ireland.
I've got this:
-Coincidentally its length is a perfect fit for several stacked PowerEdge or ProLiant 1U/2U boxes
-Collapsible and fits in most trunks
-Smooth sailing through ramps / elevators / mantraps / cabinet aisles / whatever $facility will throw at it
Erik
Anyone have any good recommendations for an equipment cart to shuffle
IT/Telco equipment around between an office/colo ?Id like something able to carry ~6 1U Dell servers at once, and maybe
make
it over an elevator gap without a running start. Collapsible would also
be
nice, if I can throw it in the back of a car once in a while is a big
plus.
Thanks
-Mike
Best cart I've had to date is a COSCO 12-301 ABL that I got from Lowes.
Combined with ratchet straps and a set of tailgate ramps I've moved
everything from 5U servers to large Cisco 7609S' and ASR9010's with it.
The selling feature for this aside from the cart/hand truck conversion
ability and 1000lb capacity was the fact that it has pneumatic tires which
helps keep the ride a little more smooth when you're rolling equipment out
to a vehicle.
-Scott