6 linear feet

to hold most of my earthly possessions.
boxes in the abf u-pack truck

yesterday i started loading things into the trailer. today i took everything i’d put neatly along one side and started packing it as tightly as i could along the back, trying not to use more than my alloted 6 linear feet. the trailer is about 8′ wide and 10′ tall which means all my stuff should fit into 480 cubic feet of space.

notice the red 6 marked off at the top right. 6 linear feet is not as much space as you’d think, considering the trailer is 28′ long.

large things still not in this picture:

  • 7′ long sofa (visible in the bottom right)
  • matching armchair
  • 6 wooden dining chairs
  • 1 queen size mattress
  • 1 leather desk chair
  • 1 molded plywood chair
  • 1 mountain bike
  • 1 bike hitch rack
Saturday, May 7, 2005 1:01am
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Melanie
5/8/05 1:56pm

So will you be headed this way?

Kelley
5/10/06 6:28pm

Hello. I was looking for pictures of what the inside of my 6′ POD would look like and so I came across your blog by way of Google. I’m curious. Did you use more than your 6′? Because now, I’m worried….

justin
5/10/06 11:50pm

Kelley, it definitely helped that it was 10′ tall, as I stacked as much as I could up to the ceiling. I think in the end I used about 7′ linear feet—but it was marginal, so they didn’t charge me extra for it or anything.

dennis
10/24/07 3:35pm

let me tell you something, i’ve worked for abf, inside the trailer is 8 1/2′ tall, not ten!!