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We had brought pallets and pallet jack, shrink wrap and other assorted implements of destruction to get the job done. Note to self...21 inch CRT's do not stabilize well unboxed and on a pallet. Trying to put 8 monitors on a pallet and shrink wrapping them resulted in monitors trying desperately to escape the shrink wrap oh, I'd say about every 5 feet of forward transport. Once we did succeed in getting a pallet of them down the elevator, we found that the 12 degree lip on the liftgate was much too steep to get the pallet jack onto it...not without bumping it with an 18 inch head start. Which resulted in monitors wanting to impact upon the hot asphalt in the worst way. Bad idea.

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