Unloading stove from truck...

Any nearby friends with a tractor or loader? Forklift?

 

Or a few brawny lads?

 

I bought a bottle of bourbon and asked a couple of friends to come over and help. I think they enjoyed sitting by the fire and drinking once we were done lifting and moving ... maybe I have cheap friends.


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Unfortunately our tractor doesn't have a front loader, i wished. We don't really know our neighbors very well. We hardly ever see them.

 

Sounds great, we did a lot of that when we were younger. The bad thing about getting old is that your friends get old too. So there are a lot of bad backs and knees etc and the youngsters never have time.

 

First...I sucked it up, and bought a good appliance dolly that has the stair track/belt things on the back. WORTH EVERY DIME....plus you'll be everybody's best friend (read: repay favors by loaning it out. ) Then I borrowed some 1000lb ramps from my buddy...and borrowed my buddy. LOL. Between the proper dolly, the ramps, and some good help, it was a super easy job getting my 30NC (almost 500 lbs) out of the truck, up into the house, and then down into the basement.

 

last time around i hired a pair of no necks as my poor old back wasn't up to snuff- worth while investment at the time.

yep when we was younger and one of us was moving it became a giant party day and all the moving got done- got buddy still talking about riding a refrigerator down the 2 flights of stairs at an apartment complex - he sat on top of it and kept it from hitting the walls , i remember hauling it up there in the first place.

 

I did the case of beer jack Daniels route and had 4 of us to take it off. If I had to do it again I would look to rent something, one of us almost got killed (me) and my brother in law threw his neck out.

 

Worst case scenario, get/make some kind of cobbled ramp, and a few heavy duty pallets, like the blue CHEP or orange CPC. Ramp down onto 2 or 3 stacked pallets, and then ramp down off the pallets to the ground. Would be kind of pokey, but much gentler ramp angles.

 

I brought mine from the truck onto the hearth pad by myself. I put a harbor freight dolly under the stove, then stacked 2 2x6s front and back. Then i rocked it back and forth and added a third block to each end. I backed up to my Deck and pushed it down the ramp onto the deck with an aluminum ramp. Then up into the house with that ramp again. Across the pine floors on plywood, and up onto the 1" raised hearth.

 

Don't know if this job has been tackled or not yet.

When the NC-30 was shipped, brother got it off the truck with a tractor...just used the bucket under the edge of the pallet and then tied the stove to the top of the bucket. Loaded it into my truck a few weeks after using the same method.

Here comes the part you're asking about.

Unloading the stove was a breeze. The back of the truck is a bit too high due to its HD suspension. I used a tri-fold ATV loading ramp with some scrap plywood/OSB and slid the stove down the ramp to floor level. (I moved it to the ramp using a lever and fulcrum system....a little at a time.)

Once on the floor. again I used a lever and fulcrum...but larger lever this time, and raised it onto a furniture dolly. Rolled into place, removed from dolly. Also, the door and firebrick were all removed, of course.

Every move has different applications which will have to be addressed by how you see proper. Good luck! (If it isn't done yet)

Just re-read that today is the big day!

Maybe where you are buying it from could lend a hand?

 

I had a neighbor who asked me to help move his stove from a second story deck to a truck. I backed my log trailer close to the deck, then with the stove strapped tightly to a hand truck, I used the grapple to latch onto the handle and swung it over the railing, around and right into the back of the truck. The guys standing there were amazed at the speed and ease.

But...but...but...PLEASE think about what you are doing. A really good friend of mine was putting a boiler in a basement and was in front of it and ended up wearing it. He nearly lost his life, and 5 years later is still undergoing surgeries from the damage done.

Be careful, and this is coming from a not-so-safe guy, so take heed.

 

I moved my central boiler maxim 175 outdoor pellet boiler myself.
The dealer told me it is about 1,300 lbs.
I got a Johnson bar and a pallet roller and bought a stack of 4x4 timbers from the depot.
Using the Johnson bar I levered up one side at a time, then blocked it up with a 4x4.
I did this in a log cabin like stack until the height matched my trailer deck.
Then I used a come a long to pull the boiler onto the trailer.
When I got it to its new home, I used the same process to roll it off the trailer onto a stack of timbers, then used the Johnson bar to lower each side as I removed the 4x4s.

 

Johnson bar is on the left, I'll have to take a picture of the pallet roller,
Boiler on the trailer, timbers stacked in the van.

He also bought my 85 feet of thermopex, I had to wrap it up by driving two stakes into the ground and forcing it into a coil, then using straps to keep it coiled.
I delivered it to Barre, VT from Haverhill, MA.

 

How to coil up thermopex, it fought every step!

 

Rowerwet's post made me think of this:

I had a boiler one time that I wanted to lift a foot off the floor so my wife could fill it with wood/coal without bending over. It had a lifting lug so I just used a single set of staging. Because they come apart I was able to set it up inside the boiler room, then put (2) 2 x 8's side by side with a strap come-a-long to crank it up and down. That worked well...and safely. Staging can be rented pretty cheaply (or borrowed if you know someone).

 

Well guys, It's here. You were right, I worried for nothing. We bought a furniture dolly or hand truck from U-haul, $10 cheaper than harbor Freight and same quality.
Really my husband could have done it by himself. We used 8' motorcycle ramps and rolled it slowly down. We supported the ramps with a couple of logs. Here are a few pics. Couldn't take any while we were rolling it but before and after.

 

Ok here are the pics. It's just sitting off to the side, while we finish the floor and install the chimney.