How to move a giant tortoise by myself

[Sassylou]

Hi! I am Sassylou and live in Texas. Our weather seems to be getting more extreme lately and I occasionally have the need to fetch my 22 year old 130lb sulcata from the back corner of my half acre back yard where he sometimes hangs out and tote him to his heated house. I can't pick him up and wonder if anyone has suggestions about how to move him without breaking my back.

 

[Skip K]

 

[S2G]

It feels odd to have experience with this lol. However, I scooped a few beasts up with homemade offroad furniture dollies & bigger hand trucks with inflatable tires. Just make sure their legs are clear & put some towels etc down where shell to metal happens.

 

[Sassylou]

Thanks so much, Skip and S2G!

 

[Yvonne G]

When I had my two over 200lb Aldabrans I used the carrot-and-the-stick method. . . only I replaced the carrot with a strawberry.