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I need Tom over an old lift motor. It's about the size of a small suitcase amd I can just about slide it so I'd say it's around 100kg possibly more. I need to get it out of the house, unfortunately this is up and over a couple of steps and doorways as floors are on different levels.
any ideas, any sort of trolley thing out there that could make life easier. Not keen on trying to lift with 2 due to the weight, difficulty in manovouring and the potential damage to floor/feet if it goes wrong.
can't dismantle it any more
Definitely strap it on mind.
Have you sold it or is it going for scrap...
If the latter just have at it with the grinder 🙂
Attach some helium balloons to it.
i believe a house was once moved to the unlikeliest of places using this exact method.
Shit load of seagulls?
How did you know they were Poles?
100kg? I too would go with pole - will motor fit in a big rucsack? If so, use pole through rucksack harness.
Sack truck?
Electric motor I assume....a large copper winding? It'll be worth a few quid being bright copper. Maybe get a scrap man to fetch it?
Stick in a ladies handbag.
They'll not notice.
Electric motor, big one. Don't really want to cut it up as I have the vague idea I'll try to get it up and running as a bit of a project, though God knows when I'll get the time. Could be used as an uplift at Southampton bike park 🙂
ive had to cut the frame, wire and pulleys to get it out without taking down a large chunk of the ceiling which I suspect has got some asbestos in (there are some tiles in there which have been over boarded. I've got quite a chunk of metal now large aluminium girders, big steel brackets and loads of lead piping - the electrics seem to have been run through lead pipe painted black. Wiring is cloth covered stuff. Doesn't seem the most sensible way to have wired something...
those sack trolley things look like they would do the job, plus handy for other work.
Makes sure it's a stair jack though. They're great for moving stuff about on you own.
Don’t really want to cut it up as I have the vague idea I’ll try to get it up and running as a bit of a project,
get it running, turn into a go kart, drive out.
job, jobbed.
If the wiring is silk wrapped rubber it's really very old. I wouldn't want to put it live again.
as part of clearing my parents house I got 3 large granite stones from the garden that had been in the family for years, dad had done manual labour all his life - he just picked them up and carried them (350lbs), me - well I used a ladder, a board and a windable ratchet strap, took a while but I got them over the gravel, up the slope, up the stairs and then planted them in the garden (board with stone at bottom of ladder,ratchet strap from top of ladder round board/stone and then just cranked the board along the ladder , when got stone to end I could just spin ladder round as the length let me lift it and then back to cranking along the ladder
I often move big stuff. 1.5 Ton machines to 300kg balloon baskets and the simplest way is rollers. We use nylon rollers, but dowel or broom handles would work just as well in your case. It worked for the Egyptians...
Surely you can cobble together some gearing and a winding mechanism.
Attach a 12v car battery to the terminals, some heavy duty cable, adn let the lazy thing winch itself out.
You just have to sit back and disconnect the battery once it's where it needs winching too.
£50 please
DrP
Bag of frozen peas, old lift engineers trick
In STW fashion I'll also add, when you come to do it I recommend some toe-tectors.