Dollies are overrated for heavy furniture, stick to sliders and manpower

Up here in north jersey, with all these tight brownstone stairs, I dropped $450 on a set of those U-Haul heavy-duty dollies last month and they're sitting unused in the truck. We're scheduling back-to-back moves this week and the boys are pissed because dollies just get stuck on turns and scratch floors anyway. I watched a Moving Matt video on instagram where he swears by slider pads and a good team lift, saved my ass on a king size mattress haul yesterday without a single ding. Someone in the Moving Professionals FB group was ranting about the same thing, said dollies caused them a $2k claim last season. Honestly, for residential jobs like these, manpower with Felton sliders beats fancy equipment every time. Fight me if you think otherwise.

Try the Forearm Forklift straps instead, they've cut my furniture damage claims by 60% on stair jobs.

What size furniture are you guys mostly hauling? Ours is mostly sofas and beds under 200lbs.

Dollies are fine for flat ground warehouse stuff, but in real homes they're a liability waiting to happen.

Switched to those cheap Amazon slider discs last year, $25 for a pack of 8, and they glide like butter on carpet.

Corporate loves pushing dollies to cut labor time, but us on the ground know it's BS.

FML, had a dolly wheel snap on me mid-move last week, client was furious.

Same here, my back's killing me from compensating for crappy equipment.

Man, I feel your pain on those jersey stairs, they're a nightmare no matter the tool.

Big box stores shove dollies down our throats, but they don't pay for the lawsuits.

We just tell clients upfront no dollies for stairs, upsell the manpower option.

Proud of my crew, we hit 50 moves last month zero dollies, all sliders and lifts.

Haha yeah, sliders saved the day again today, no drama.

These tight urban schedules are killing us with bad gear choices.

Insurance companies are the real villains here, jacking rates over dumb tools.

Ugh, just wrapped a job where the dolly gouged the banister, $500 repair out of pocket.

Totally get it, been there with the frustration on every tight move.

Sliders all the way, boys, don't let the tool salesmen fool ya.