Munich --> Aachen Removal

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Loading & Unloading Duration & Number Of Men

  • Munich: Flat To Truck:

    • Ultra worst case of lift failure is not calculated
    • Worst case, Assume it takes a man 5 mins to hand carry a single 10 kilo box from flat with open door, to truck tailgate in Hof #1 & return empty handed.
      (It took 40 second to walk (with shopping thus slower) from steel gate to where truck would park in hof#1, & another 2 mins 15 sec to wait for lift & up, unlock, into office, dump boxes, glasses on, find pen & paper.)
      That is 120 Kilo/ hour. 2000 Kilo = 16.7 hours. With 4 men = 4.2 hours
    • But we will use wheels to move more a bit slower (& empty wheeled carrier back a bit faster). Assume 30 kilo every 8 minutes, = 66.7 trips x 8 mins. = 533 mins, / 4 men = 133 mins = 2+ hours
    • Avoid too many men:
      • Per man fee to agency.
      • Men will want to earn more money, not want to just earn 2 hours per man, may slow down if work is disappearing too fast. It costs them traveling time too, so like when I worked in a bar, & wanted to work longer than 2 hours they will want to work minimum 3 or 4 hours
      • Men would waste too much time waiting for lift.
      • There are few big heavy items needing multiple men, we do not need matched teams of eg 2 x 2
      • There is no need to load truck in minimum time, unlike a move within one city in one day; Impossible with our day long drive.
    • Avoid too few men:
      • It would drag on, men will tire, work slower, less cost efficient, more risk of accident.
      • Greater risk if a man fails to turn up.
      • If one man skives off slow working, its easier achieved with less colleagues to notice, less of a team spirit to progress the work.
    • Assume 30 kilo every 8 minutes, = 66.7 trips x 8 mins. = 533 mins, / 3 men = 133 mins = 3 hours, about as much as one wants to work before a break.
    • Longer to load only if I can get a truck with more than 2 Ton under the arch of Hof#1, but that's unlikely.
    • Conclusion: 3 men from agency for 3+ hours = 10+ man hours
    • 2023-12-18 it took about 2 hours for 2 men carrying & julian loading into van. Unloading was not timed.
    • 2024-09-02 14:00-__:__ for just 2 men
  • Aachen: Truck To House:

    • All stuff will first be emptied from truck into garage, or through garage into house level 0, regardless which floor level it is later destined for.
    • The truck on drive is too wide to allow men to squeeze past carrying stuff.
    • Until truck is completely unloaded & driven off drive, nothing moves from Erzberger garage to { gruental garage or via pavement & stairs up to higher levels }
    • Internal staircase between Level 0 & 1 is only usable by light hand loads, not big boxes or trolley.
    • We will leave as much as possible on level 0
    • It'll be a lot quicker to unload, as no long walk from truck, no staircase & lift congestion unlike Munich.
    • Some boxes (especially some labelled level 0) have small stuff for multi levels, to be opened by J & M on level 0, & split & carried up later.
    • Some boxes labelled for levels 1 & 2 can go up later, on / after 2nd truck delivery.
    • Most boxes labeled for levels 3 were only labeled such, so as to clear working space on level 0. No particular need to take up.
    • Stuff for Gruental garage has no need to be moved from Erzberger garage till after all truck trips finished & car arrives, (unless Erzberger garage gets too congested).
    • Only after truck unloading is finished, if men have time remaining, if not raining, after truck is moved off drive & parked elsewhere: we could send some especially mouse hazarded things (eg some mel. kartons labelled 2-5 & 2-6, (clothes, mattresses, cushions) up to higher levels
    • The garage should not be a bottle neck as 2 doors off it into house.
    • Unloading will be quicker as Julian will be free to help unload, whereas on loading Julian is busy in truck placing stuff & tieing up
    • Ingo will be paid to help unload
    • Conclusion: Hire one man from agency
  • Aachen: Later Up From Level 0, Hire More Men

    • At a later date after last truck has gone, when Melanie is also there to supervise, & on a dry day, we can engage a team of men to carry up from Erzberger garage via pavement into house.
    • Carrying up into house will be a lot slower as no lift unlike Munich, but we will have 2 trolleys etc.
    • Conclusion: Hire two or more ? men That can be done at shorter notice to suit us & the weather, no van hire to synchronise with, probably wont need agency, use men we've hired before on trucks.

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