Hi All, just wanted to pick your brains about the equipment you use to transport your art work from your vehicle to your booth site. In the past couple of weeks I have managed to read almost every post on all the forums (insomnia and a few bottles of mediocre wine in the wee hours of the night) and have not run across much information on this subject. I have noticed that there are comments about parking blocks away, the inability to get near your site due to the monster truck and trailer taking up several spots and blocking the road way, as well as various other problems with arrival times and other issues. I have seen photos that appear to be in the middle of a swamp with site numbers on it while others are on pavement. I realize that some of these sites will not be on hard surfaces and I will need to be able to navigate through grass, sand, gravel,mud or dirt.
Toting my canvases and stuff (tent, panels, chair, carpet, table...) across the aforementioned terrain does not appear to be an easy task. I have looked at many pieces of equipment with tiny wheels or big tires, some with beds and others with fold out lips, lots of bungie cords holding stuff up or strapping it down. A backpack is definitely out and I am not sure what type of carrier to pick.
I could go back up to Oatman AZ and find that donkey that tried to climb into the back of my Prius last week. A few carrots and that Jack will carry my stuff over any terrain.
Terry McCray
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After reading this I think I'm going to purchase the Pro Panels cart also. I get about $1000 a year renting my panels out and most of the time I have to deliver them and help the artist set up. So fat this year, I have four weekends scheduled to rent them out. The Pro Panels cart will make it easier for me to deliver and pick up the panels.
Larry Berman
Larry, you will be so glad that you did it. I just love mine---I do a show in Montana, have to come in across a gravel parking lot with 10 panels on the cart---no problem!!! It helps too that the panels are all in one place when you are setting up, you can just pop it up and then walk it in---I save so much hefting panels from one spot to the next that I would love the cart, just for that.
I also ordered an received three space saver panels because I use them to photograph quilts and need to keep my rental set together in the garage. I like the space saver panels because I can store them in my dining room which is really a storage room for my living room studio.
Larry Berman
To the far right of this photo you can see how I transport my panels with my RockNRoller. I've not had any trouble with the bar bending and I've used this RockNRoller for 10 years now. I bungee around the panels so they don't slip and make sure they are ALL even. My only problem with the RockNRoller is that I can't carry small stuff like my batteries and my weights on it because of the open bed. One day my husband will cut me a piece of plywood to fix that :-)
Alison, Does that handle poke into your panels? It kind of looks like it from the photo.
Never had a problem with that. They generally don't stay on the cart too long.
I bought the pro panel cart and absolutely love it. I tip the panels up from my van, onto the cart--so, I really don't have to lift them. All 10 fit on the cart plus the print bin. I take them inside and leave them on the cart---just tip them up one at a time to connect. The cart works great them for the rest of the stuff--I make three or sometimes four trips total.
The cost of the cart was well worth it---I had to trolley past electrical cables at one show--my cart was one of the few that just bounced over them.
i don't use propanels but i do use 27" wide x 84" tall corrugated panels for my walls and the easily fit lengthwise through the handles of the cart for ttransport.
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