[Nhcoll-l] Moving an insect collection

[Douglas Yanega]

A lot depends on how many drawers you feel compelled to take on each trip.

 From extensive personal experience, the best moving experiences have 
been those where it involved many smaller loads in a passenger vehicle, 
just moving drawers and *not* cabinets. This is vastly easier when the 
distance is short. Under those circumstances, a lot of small-volume 
trips is possible, and, I would say, very desirable compared to the 
alternative.

You can fit a surprising number of drawers into the seats of a car, and 
the seats' cushioning is generally sufficiently squishy. A researcher 
who works in our collection drives back and forth from California to 
Tennessee, every year for many years now, with about 20 drawers in his 
car, and has never had any issues, even though the trip takes him four 
days each way. Other than precautions against drawers sliding sideways, 
he doesn't really do anything special.

If you can drive cross-country that way, a half mile trip should be 
pretty easy, unless the "bumpy" part is spine-shattering.

Peace,

-- 
Doug Yanega      Dept. of Entomology       Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314     skype: dyanega
phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
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