Cruised by a salvage yard in Bakersfield today and spotted something smart

I was picking up a quarter panel at Pick Your Part down off Roberts Lane and walked past this old guy working on a Chevy Silverado. He had the whole front clip off and was using a wheeled cart from Harbor Freight to hold the bumper and grille assembly while he lined it up. No jacking around with a floor jack and blocks of wood like I usually see. He just rolled the whole thing into position, bolted it on, and slid the cart out from under. I stood there for a minute watching and he didn't even look up. It made me think about how much time I waste fighting heavy parts on my own. I am going to grab one of those carts next week for sure. Has anyone else found a weird simple tool that saved them hours on a big job like this?

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henderson.mila8d ago

I bought one and now my wife calls it my fancy furniture dolly.

sam_anderson8d ago

Man that's slick. I've been using an old furniture dolly with some plywood screwed on top to roll transmissions around under cars and it works way better than it should. My buddy laughed at me until I slid a full transfer case out from under his van in thirty seconds flat. Harbor Freight stuff gets a bad rap but their little mechanics carts are gold for this kind of thing.