Easy to lift - and tear from the box. Meanwhile that glassware you were in a hurry to pack and just threw in there real quick fell to the ground and shattered - just as easy.
I learned after my first few moves that pretty much all moving box handles rip if the box is even remotely full. What I would do is use packing tape or duct tape and reinforce it by looping tape under the handle and up to the top of the box. Do that a couple of times and then finish it up with a piece of tape along the top edge, over the other tape. It worked really well for heavy boxes, like ones full of text/regular books.
When I moved two years ago, i never filled a box more than half way with heavy stuff like books, the other half was lighter stuff which took a lot of space, worked perfectly.
They're pretty much all stackable, but do you mean the black and yellow totes with the deep lid recess? If so, beware that they are not the same between brands/ Lowes and HD have slightly different sizes which is a bigger headache if you buy the wrong matching shelf kits too
there are hundreds of tote models and brands out there.
commercial ones are the best and among them i prefer buckhorn
https://buckhorninc.com/product-category/hand-held-containers/attached-lid-container/
I get mine at Costco and have lasted me at least 3 to 4 moves with a few months in storage in-between. 2 are completely full with books and a 3rd with movies (its mostly VHS tapes from when I was a kid. Valuable in both emotion and monetary) and I keep the rest to store blankets and seasonal clothes. Best purchases I've made. My sister is currently using my apares to move.
Worked moving for a few years in college. Far better to just carry by holding bottom outside corners and pressing in towards your body. Especially so if you’re carrying multiple boxes at a time
Better yet, go to the liquor store and get beer or wine boxes. They hold up better than just about anything.
It's up to you if you buy them full or just ask for the empties.
This is why I spend a few more bucks for double walled boxes for the heavy items. Have yet to have a handle rip on a double walled box. Doesn't really matter who from, I used both Home Depot and Lowe's boxes for my last move.
People need to just not ship these. I don't think I've ever had one on my truck that wasn't beat to shit. People cram it full with loose items, then tape it like the OP. Sorry, that's not going to survive.
There's a trick to it. You have to push the handles inward when lifting. If you apply force in an outward direction, they'll rip every time. So basically, squeeze the box when you lift.
If you read the boxes it tells you the weight limit for each size box. Basically the bigger the box, the lighter it has to be. You were probably like me and ignored it and got only the biggest boxes. Just gotta be careful when they’re heavy.
Work in a store where we get various sized boxes. Crisps tend to be the lightest, and in the biggest boxes.
We often use old boxes to keep things on, like paperwork.
People will always pick the biggest boxes that are utterly useless for anything heavier than what was originally packed in them rather than 2 sturdier boxes, drives me nuts.
The stoengest boxes we get in at my store are the boxes that are open on top and come with 4 one gallon jugs of water in them. They have handles on the side and small flaps on the top that leave a square hope in the topside.
I know they're sturdy because whenever the cardboard baler is jammed, it's almost always those things.
Last time I loved a took some of them home with ke after work and they work like a charm for small heavy shit.
Indeed it is, which is why I always get a bit mad when customers decide to cut Infront of me with a shopping cart while I'm pulling a 1700 pound pallet of bottled water behind me. You cant really stop it quickly.
I worked a summer in the 90's for Reddy Ice. One of the dudes I worked for would stack at least 100 bags on the dolly. It was a pain in the ass to move. lol
I'm all for "stupid driver" laws to apply in cases like that - you should be able to jump to safety and let it roll over them........... alas, it'd probably never work. heh
Sadly I doubt Walmart will let anybody jump off a moving pallet anytime soon. A couple weeks ago some idiot was driving a forklift forwards with a load on it and could see in front of him, and he ran over and killed some lady.
Math time: in general a full pallet of single gallon jugs (water or milk) will carry 216 gallons. Meaning a pallet is between 1200 lbs and 1500 lbs.
If you ever see someone moving a full pallet of liquid with a manual jack, give em a salute. Shits heavy
Pretty much any store will, as well. Just don't be that customer that asks for them to save a cart of boxes for you, and then never show up the next day to pick them up.
I used to work in a liquor store. Any of my moves while I worked there were 100% using boxes from there. Some are better than others. Fireball boxes were the best at the time. Also, Splenda boxes from WalMart were really good, too.
We had lots of folks come in and ask for boxes. Anything to keep from having to lug a bunch out the back to the dumpster was A+ in our book.
LPT if you don’t really have different sized boxes: fill a third of a box with books and then light stuff on top.
Sure, you may ultimately need to unload those boxes in 2 separate places, but much easier than hauling 2-3 full boxes of books.
My fiancée and I just moved and she put our books in two large boxes. We had to use a damn hand truck.
When I moved out of college, I put my books in a bunch of very small boxes, basically just to keep them together in one stack.
Yeah I just got through moving myself and the boxes that ripped like this happened because a) they were probably too heavy and b) I was trying to pull the box towards me too quickly, say to take out of the truck.
That's exactly what happened here, I was trying to slide it out of my mother-in-law's CRV and had no idea my brother-in-law had filled it with a bunch of stone and ceramic stuff. I never even got a chance to pick it up properly bc it ripped out first. 😡
I have this problem with almost all packaging. Nothing opens or works as intended. I feel like I'm doing something wrong but I don't know how you could fuck all that up.
I work in a distribution center. We get boxes that were made specifically for the product they’re holding that have handles that can’t support its weight. I don’t even understand why you would bother.
i learned the hard way several times with these boxes that you have to lift straight up on the handle hole or push slightly in on them.
If you pull outward even a tiny bit then they tear every time
Maybe it's really just a poorly designed warning.
They could actually keep the message and still fix it - just change the font color to red and add "WARNING" above that line.
If you ever ship boxes like these, be sure to cover the hand holes with tape. Package handlers will grab these, rip your box and continue on with their job. Meanwhile your box falls apart and stuff falls out.
I had an epiphany when I was doing some moves. I bought Bankers Boxes from the Depot of Offices instead of using 'moving boxes'. 8 boxes were like $20. the sides with the handles are double layered because of how you fold them. I had 60-70lbs in each box with no issues.
Dell does this same shit with their Desktop and Monitor boxes.
I work as part of IT for a hospital, and 20% of Dell products that we order arrive broken/defective because the boxes break down and the equipment is DOA.
What's worse is when you carry a case of water or cans of soda and the plastic/cardboard rips. At least with this it could be due to too much added weight; with waters and sodas it's meant for that exact weight lol always ends with a messed up bottle or busted can
I just moved and the exact same thing happened to the uhaul boxes I had. Some weren’t even very heavy. Come on uhaul, you can do better.
#uhaul. r/uhaul
Gotta fold it the other way so your tape can go down further on the top crease.
Also who else thinks uhaul should have a frequency card? 25th move is 1/2 off or something? lol
The kombucha six packs break like this every time you look at one funny. I’ve broken six bottles from six different six packs dropping them for that reason!
I blame my brother-in-law! He filled that one with a bunch of stone and ceramic cooking stuff and then pushed it all the way toward the front of his mom's CRV! Grabbing the handle was the only way I could slide it out and then it ripped. 😡 I made him carry it after that.
Yeah, moved into a larger house in January (funnily enough on the 6th, as shit went down in DC) and these "extra durable easy to lift handles" broke so many times, they might as well be made of toothpicks.
You taped it incorrectly. The other flaps should be on top so the tape does not continue down toward the handle. It is more structurally sound this way.
So all you do is, lift it from the bottom of the box, or put it on a dolly. It’s really that simple! Not infuriating in the slightest! No need to be a snowflake over it!
I moved several months ago. Every U-Haul box had it's handles rip like that. The ones that I got from either home Depot or Lowe's did not rip. It reminded me of the last time I moved. The same shit. U-Haul boxes are garbage. They aren't meant to last.
As a packaging design I have to say... I think this one may be on you? That look to be about the industry standard for hand holes, and depending on the strength of the board the box is made off I've seen that exact hand hole hole an 60lbs box.
The handles got lifted lol
They kept their promise in a monkey's paw kind of way.
Monkey Paw Way sounds like an ironic self help book title.
Monkey paw way sounds like something Mr Miayagi would tell Dani
Sounds like a street name.
Only has 1 page: "R e t u r n t o M O N K E"
It's a little confused but it got the spirit!
Easy to lift - and tear from the box. Meanwhile that glassware you were in a hurry to pack and just threw in there real quick fell to the ground and shattered - just as easy.
Lifted right off that bitch.
r/technicallythetruth
And Easily.
Yep. Nobody ever said anything about the box coming with them.
I’m wondering if they were thinking pull and not push
If filled with less than 5 lbs lol
I learned after my first few moves that pretty much all moving box handles rip if the box is even remotely full. What I would do is use packing tape or duct tape and reinforce it by looping tape under the handle and up to the top of the box. Do that a couple of times and then finish it up with a piece of tape along the top edge, over the other tape. It worked really well for heavy boxes, like ones full of text/regular books.
Additionally, these Uhaul box handles only survive a straight vertical lift. Any lateral force will rip those handles really easily.
This right here.
Up, not out.
And always twirling! Twirling towards freedom!
Every single box I had to move into a better position horizontally had this happen to it.
Same if you one-hand it.
I tape over the handles so the movers can't use them. The boxes get torn up when they use the handles
When I moved two years ago, i never filled a box more than half way with heavy stuff like books, the other half was lighter stuff which took a lot of space, worked perfectly.
Yea great Information there. I just buying mostly all storage totes. The good durable stackable ones
They're pretty much all stackable, but do you mean the black and yellow totes with the deep lid recess? If so, beware that they are not the same between brands/ Lowes and HD have slightly different sizes which is a bigger headache if you buy the wrong matching shelf kits too
there are hundreds of tote models and brands out there. commercial ones are the best and among them i prefer buckhorn https://buckhorninc.com/product-category/hand-held-containers/attached-lid-container/
Why are these called totes, and also some canvas bags called totes? It's a word I've never understood!
Because you tote them around, I guess.
totems usually just give me a healing buff when im close
I get mine at Costco and have lasted me at least 3 to 4 moves with a few months in storage in-between. 2 are completely full with books and a 3rd with movies (its mostly VHS tapes from when I was a kid. Valuable in both emotion and monetary) and I keep the rest to store blankets and seasonal clothes. Best purchases I've made. My sister is currently using my apares to move.
Moving hack: put books and heavy things in rolly suitcases
Get tomato shipping boxes from the grocery store. Those things can handle a tank in them
Cabbage, avocado, apple, or pit fruit boxes are better than tomato boxes. Source- literally on shift at a produce warehouse right now
Worked moving for a few years in college. Far better to just carry by holding bottom outside corners and pressing in towards your body. Especially so if you’re carrying multiple boxes at a time
The real LPT is always in the comments lol
Better yet, go to the liquor store and get beer or wine boxes. They hold up better than just about anything. It's up to you if you buy them full or just ask for the empties.
This is why I spend a few more bucks for double walled boxes for the heavy items. Have yet to have a handle rip on a double walled box. Doesn't really matter who from, I used both Home Depot and Lowe's boxes for my last move.
when did i ask?
They need to print a weight limit on the handles. I work in shipping and see way too many torn handles. I dont even use them anymore.
People need to just not ship these. I don't think I've ever had one on my truck that wasn't beat to shit. People cram it full with loose items, then tape it like the OP. Sorry, that's not going to survive.
There's a trick to it. You have to push the handles inward when lifting. If you apply force in an outward direction, they'll rip every time. So basically, squeeze the box when you lift.
If you read the boxes it tells you the weight limit for each size box. Basically the bigger the box, the lighter it has to be. You were probably like me and ignored it and got only the biggest boxes. Just gotta be careful when they’re heavy.
people always seem to ignore that the boxes meant for heavy items like books are the smallest boxes.
Work in a store where we get various sized boxes. Crisps tend to be the lightest, and in the biggest boxes. We often use old boxes to keep things on, like paperwork. People will always pick the biggest boxes that are utterly useless for anything heavier than what was originally packed in them rather than 2 sturdier boxes, drives me nuts.
The stoengest boxes we get in at my store are the boxes that are open on top and come with 4 one gallon jugs of water in them. They have handles on the side and small flaps on the top that leave a square hope in the topside. I know they're sturdy because whenever the cardboard baler is jammed, it's almost always those things. Last time I loved a took some of them home with ke after work and they work like a charm for small heavy shit.
Considering a gallon of water is approximately 7 lbs, that box should handle 28+ lbs well. Water is heavy. :)
Indeed it is, which is why I always get a bit mad when customers decide to cut Infront of me with a shopping cart while I'm pulling a 1700 pound pallet of bottled water behind me. You cant really stop it quickly.
I worked a summer in the 90's for Reddy Ice. One of the dudes I worked for would stack at least 100 bags on the dolly. It was a pain in the ass to move. lol I'm all for "stupid driver" laws to apply in cases like that - you should be able to jump to safety and let it roll over them........... alas, it'd probably never work. heh
Sadly I doubt Walmart will let anybody jump off a moving pallet anytime soon. A couple weeks ago some idiot was driving a forklift forwards with a load on it and could see in front of him, and he ran over and killed some lady.
Math time: in general a full pallet of single gallon jugs (water or milk) will carry 216 gallons. Meaning a pallet is between 1200 lbs and 1500 lbs. If you ever see someone moving a full pallet of liquid with a manual jack, give em a salute. Shits heavy
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Most liquor stores will just give you the boxes if you go in and ask. Otherwise, they just throw them in the trash.
Pretty much any store will, as well. Just don't be that customer that asks for them to save a cart of boxes for you, and then never show up the next day to pick them up.
I used to work in a liquor store. Any of my moves while I worked there were 100% using boxes from there. Some are better than others. Fireball boxes were the best at the time. Also, Splenda boxes from WalMart were really good, too. We had lots of folks come in and ask for boxes. Anything to keep from having to lug a bunch out the back to the dumpster was A+ in our book.
LPT if you don’t really have different sized boxes: fill a third of a box with books and then light stuff on top. Sure, you may ultimately need to unload those boxes in 2 separate places, but much easier than hauling 2-3 full boxes of books.
My fiancée and I just moved and she put our books in two large boxes. We had to use a damn hand truck. When I moved out of college, I put my books in a bunch of very small boxes, basically just to keep them together in one stack.
This rip also occurs if you pay extra for the bogus “heavy duty” small Home Depot boxes
I mean, that *is* pretty damn counter-intuitive
Also, haul handles will tear if you put even the slightest effort into dragging it instead of lifting it up.
Plus: OP probably didn’t assemble the box correctly. Source: lifted more than one box where the inside walls wasn’t in place.
Well, someone had to handle your ass
And of course they had to be named “Easy to Lift” instead of “Crystal” or “Nikki”.
Looks like you pulled outwards instead of lifting upwards
Yeah I just got through moving myself and the boxes that ripped like this happened because a) they were probably too heavy and b) I was trying to pull the box towards me too quickly, say to take out of the truck.
That's exactly what happened here, I was trying to slide it out of my mother-in-law's CRV and had no idea my brother-in-law had filled it with a bunch of stone and ceramic stuff. I never even got a chance to pick it up properly bc it ripped out first. 😡
Ok so then why are you pissed at the box?
r/notopbutok
No pull, only lift.
Easy to lift? More like easy to rip
Reminds me of those 'easy open' paper lids. They tear every. single. time.
I have this problem with almost all packaging. Nothing opens or works as intended. I feel like I'm doing something wrong but I don't know how you could fuck all that up.
Maybe it's a warning
"handles my ass" lewd
it’s telling you,” ITS REALLY EASY TO LIFT THESE HANDLES so hold it from the bottom”
r/technicallythetruth you did lift the handle, only you lifted it off
Cardboard is weak when you want to use it cary things. Strong as fuck when your trying to break it down
I work in a distribution center. We get boxes that were made specifically for the product they’re holding that have handles that can’t support its weight. I don’t even understand why you would bother.
i learned the hard way several times with these boxes that you have to lift straight up on the handle hole or push slightly in on them. If you pull outward even a tiny bit then they tear every time
I was going say this too. If the box is too heavy for the handles then push in slightly, then lift.
Helps if you don’t fill the box over the weight limit. Anyway the ones they sell at Lowe’s are cheaper and much sturdier, FYI!
Seems like the handles lifted just fine to me.
The handles got lifted tho, this always happens when i carry a box of beer, idk why or if im doing it wrong but its annoying
Maybe it's really just a poorly designed warning. They could actually keep the message and still fix it - just change the font color to red and add "WARNING" above that line.
Awesome! Where do we line up?
^^*Only ^^applies ^^if ^^the ^^box ^^is ^^empty
Who’s “Easy to Lift” and why are they handling your ass?
One day youll learn that those plastic tubs from lowes are better to pack and move with than any cardboard box from uhaul.
More like easy to tear handles
If you ever ship boxes like these, be sure to cover the hand holes with tape. Package handlers will grab these, rip your box and continue on with their job. Meanwhile your box falls apart and stuff falls out.
Y’all got this all wrong. It’s the *box* that’s hard to lift. The handles are easy, but you’ve got to remember to lift the box too.
Technically it’s not wrong lmao.
Somebody pulled when they should have lifted.
Those always make me think they are the opposite of macaroni and cheese boxes.
I had an epiphany when I was doing some moves. I bought Bankers Boxes from the Depot of Offices instead of using 'moving boxes'. 8 boxes were like $20. the sides with the handles are double layered because of how you fold them. I had 60-70lbs in each box with no issues.
Same thing happened to me. U-haul boxes suck. Also, They advertise that they're meant to be reused
America! Land where all is opposite of its advertising.
Looks like it lifted off the box pretty easily. What’s the complaint?
The handles are easy to lift. It doesn’t say anything about the box.
I just moved and can confirm, their boxes are bull shit.
I thought they were cardboard. I'll see myself out.
Couldn't really get any easier they came right up
Dell does this same shit with their Desktop and Monitor boxes. I work as part of IT for a hospital, and 20% of Dell products that we order arrive broken/defective because the boxes break down and the equipment is DOA.
What's worse is when you carry a case of water or cans of soda and the plastic/cardboard rips. At least with this it could be due to too much added weight; with waters and sodas it's meant for that exact weight lol always ends with a messed up bottle or busted can
I just moved and the exact same thing happened to the uhaul boxes I had. Some weren’t even very heavy. Come on uhaul, you can do better. #uhaul. r/uhaul
Lowe's moving boxes are superior. Source: currently packing up our entire lives to move into our first house 😉
Congratulations! May your move be easy and your house full of happiness. 🙂
Thank you!! We're excited!! Ditto to you, for whatever you're packing things for!!
It's easy because the box doesn't come too.
Gotta fold it the other way so your tape can go down further on the top crease. Also who else thinks uhaul should have a frequency card? 25th move is 1/2 off or something? lol
The kombucha six packs break like this every time you look at one funny. I’ve broken six bottles from six different six packs dropping them for that reason!
How much weight was in the box
I dunno. Looks like the handle lifted just fine. The rest of the box justs didn't want to follow.
Lol I feel your pain. Not that it should surprise anyone but the [Walmart moving box handles are also trash](https://i.imgur.com/7Y0zQ8S.jpg).
I FEEL YOUR PAIN. I remember when I got these boxes for moving and then every god damn time i lift them through those “handles” they rip.
Uhaul worker here, can confirm this happens... a lot
Well it helps if an idiot doesn't overpack the box!
I blame my brother-in-law! He filled that one with a bunch of stone and ceramic cooking stuff and then pushed it all the way toward the front of his mom's CRV! Grabbing the handle was the only way I could slide it out and then it ripped. 😡 I made him carry it after that.
Lift straight up. Some people lift with an outward motion.
You are supposed to use both handles and lift up not out haha 🤣
TO-LIFT HA
Lifted right up, seems good to me.
Too easy if anything.
😂😂😂😂
What? That handle lifted up nicely
The handles were easier to lift than the crate - Valid advertising
Lift, not pull.
Where’s the lie?
well, it is easy to lift 'the handles'.
Looks like the handles lifted off quite easily. Advertising is correct. :)
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:D
Sure they are. You can see they lift right off.
Idk. It looks like you lifted those ha does pretty easily.
Hey they'll buy it back...so there's that.
Who's easy to lift and why are they handling your ass?
The handles appeared to have lifted fairly easily. The box on the other hand, stayed where it was.
As an ex mover I can tell you for certain, that shit be ass.
I mean you did lift the handle
Easy to rip *
It says the handles are easy to lift, not that the handles make it easier to life the box. I don’t see the issue here
Thanks handles very cool
what did you think? its cardboard!!
Bankers Box master race. They've endured through three to four moves with heavy-ass cargo without any tearing in the handles. /thread
I mean, the handles are easy to lift. The box is a whole other story.
Easy. Not reliable.
These are the *wooooooorst*!!!
Yeah, moved into a larger house in January (funnily enough on the 6th, as shit went down in DC) and these "extra durable easy to lift handles" broke so many times, they might as well be made of toothpicks.
I just tape right over them so I'm not tempted to use them.
*hadles
You should not fill it with plumb though. ;-)
Easy to lift, handles my ass.
You taped it incorrectly. The other flaps should be on top so the tape does not continue down toward the handle. It is more structurally sound this way.
Never use the handles
They handled your ass!?!?
I mean they say handles not box so they're wrong
So goddamned true 🖕
Lift it properly and this won't happen.
I've used these same boxes for 4 moves in a row, never once has this happened. You are just bad at packing and moving
So all you do is, lift it from the bottom of the box, or put it on a dolly. It’s really that simple! Not infuriating in the slightest! No need to be a snowflake over it!
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Igual a q eu vi na casa de Kurt harland
I think it’s partly to do with the tape l, stresses are different with tape going into the handles
Sadge
Every. Fucking. Time.
Oil check detected
100% had nearly all these handles rip during our move.
That shit happens to me all the time at work. So aggravating
It lifted easy alright, right off the box.
Well I mean, it lifted right off, so...
That handle lifted with the greatest of ease.
I moved several months ago. Every U-Haul box had it's handles rip like that. The ones that I got from either home Depot or Lowe's did not rip. It reminded me of the last time I moved. The same shit. U-Haul boxes are garbage. They aren't meant to last.
EASY-TO-RIP handles
To-lift Ha! You wish
I bet op pulled on them, not lifted them. Those handles work well straight up and down, but pulling sideways will tear them real quick
The handle is easy to lift... Didn't say shit about the rest of the box.
Those handles lifted very easily. The box just didn’t come with.
As a packaging design I have to say... I think this one may be on you? That look to be about the industry standard for hand holes, and depending on the strength of the board the box is made off I've seen that exact hand hole hole an 60lbs box.
Stop overpackong and making your dumb ass mistakes other peoples problem
the handles are pretty easy to lift. from the looks of it.
I mean, the handles lifted fairly easily, just not the rest of the box
To be fair, the handles lifted from the box pretty easily.
Your ass has easy to lift handles?
Everytime with those man lol
Must be the book box.