So yesterday my wife gets out of bed and all the slats in the bed come dislodged on one side and, next thing I know half the mattress/box spring is on the floor. Oh, great. How am I, 69 on my last birthday, going to lift a mattress and box spring in order to put the slats back where they belong? Well, the idea came to me and I had it done in about two hours.
How do you think I did it? (I’ll come back in a day or so and see if anybody figures it out.)
I don’t care what you claim; I think you used a lever so long that it would raise the bedding whenever a truck drove off a nearby bridge into the river below.
This why we got a platform bed several years ago.
I could see me struggling to fix slats and not succeeding.
In a few days someone would miss me, and they’d find my dead body, with a half eaten face(cats) and my legs sticking out from under like the wicked witch on The Wizard of Oz
I sorta did that in our barn when I needed to move a ten foot long gate to a new location. I oiled up the pins on the hinge but couldn’t get it to budge.
Eventually I placed ratchet straps from either end of the gate to the joists and cranked, slowly lifting it off the hinge pin. I was so happy working smart instead of hard.
While the bed was dis-assembled, you should have used that opportunity to drill a hole through the ends of the slats and the rail, and then drop a cotter pi or bolt thru the hole. Then you won’t ever have this happen again.
I can tell you that when it happens in the middle of the night when you are asleep, it’s very confusing!
My wife and I had this happen a time or two. I just slid the mattress and box spring off one side of the bed, fixed the slats, pushed the mattress back. Took maybe 10 minutes, with very little effort.
Hell, I could have pulled the mattress off and removed the box springs, put the slats back in, put down the box springs and the mattress and remade the bed in about 10 minutes, and I’m almost your age.