Moving

I'd think that a good dolly could move those. Sure, they'd get shaken up a bit in the move, but would settle back down.

Robert

I have a demijohn but it's old, it has no basket. I would move the barrel intact but put a moving strap over the bung; I would break the carboy down into smaller carboys and seatbelt them in a car. The glass on mine looks pretty thin, I won't even pick it up more than half full, too awkward.

Joe

Thanks for the tips!

I'll look around for a good dolly maybe I can rent one. It will still be a challenge to go up and down stairs.

Should I take any precautions to prevent oxydation if I transfer the

I have recently converted from a siphon-based racking system to compressed gas (argon) "Push" method of transferring wine.

As such, one ot the things that I do prior to transferring my wine from carboy to carboy is to completely fill the destination carboy with Argon. This way, as i push the wine with compressed gas from one tank to the other, there is no substantial chance of oxygen getting to the wine.

One of the influences that that conviced me to convert was the "violence" done to wine by oxygen, as described by Philip Jackisch in his book "Modern Winemaking".