Ron's Brain

Depending on what you have you could put some wheels on the outer perimeter of the long side that are in use only when you tilt the bench backwards. This of course assumes it is balanced enough for you to do such an action by yourself.

Go out and move rocks with Rich for a while, and then it will be no problem at all to move.

For the work bench- you can cut a section of each leg to accommodate a locking system for a separate set of wooden wheels, ala bed rail fasteners (something I thought about for my bench).

As far as the other news goes- holy shit, every new pic of Alexander gives me crazy deja vu of when we were kids.