How do you move HEAVY speakers with sharp spikes without lifting?


I have large (175 pounds each) speakers with sharp spikes placed on carpet. I would like to be able to move them a few feet by myself to tweak their positions but lifting them is obviously not an option (I can't even lift half their weight).

I currently use a convoluted method involving tilting them over about 30 degrees, slide a board under spikes on one side, and then repeat on the other side. The speakers almost toppled over the other day which would damage them.

I'm aware there are non-spike alternatives but do not have the money to spend on these options. Any clever moving methods out there? 

Thanks!
wahoospiff

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I had to move big speakers quite a bit.  Herbie's gliders did the trick.

mr_hosehead,

I used (and still have) a dolly or "hand-truck" to move around my big Thiel 3.7 speakers.  As I had to move them often enough, this got old pretty fast.   

It was necessary to get them from one room to another.  But if I were only moving them about, tweaking their position, in the same room the glider solution was much more preferable.  IMO.