Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
For arguments sake -
How much do you estimate it would cost someone to hire 26 or so people and rent/buy all that equipment to make a local move like that? Vice renting a truck for a couple hours and 2 or 3 people to do the lifting. Fun factor, camaraderie, group hugging and pizza party afterwards are factors to be disregarded; just economics and utility please.
What currency do you want to estimate it in? it's pretty easy to work it out in dollars but the currency that matters to me is the environmental costs because it's the hardest debt to repay and the one that will get passed on to my kids.