How Did You Get That Heavy Stove Into the House?

Storm here. As the tittle. Implies, ho w did you get that stove and furnace into the house. High school weight lifters for hire. I will give you my story. I built a platform for the Harman 3. A heavy 500lbs. After unloading the trailer with an engine hoist on to a wheeled dolly. Moved it across the deck to the door. Opps have to up over the treashold used cedar shims. In the family room 30x28ft. Used plywood over the floor to the platform. Then used the engine hoist. To lift it to its resting place. I was lucky that the wife was not home. She did asked me how I got it on the platform. I told here that I just lift it up. At that point she just smiled a little bit and we just left it there. Wine and dine and everyone is warmer and happy. How was your experiences so other forum users contemplating their moves. George

The shop I bought mine from delivered it, backed up to the side door of a ranch home, in the entry and up 3 steps with a movers 2 wheeler. I had to use my mother-in-law's comforter to slide over the hardwood floors ..guess what it ripped and shortly after that she went back to Portland because she sensed cold weather coming! She figured her senior housing building would be warmer... survey say's... XXX....my house is warmer!

I have moved a couple/few Mark III's....
Stripped the stove down of doors, firebrick, grates, etc. so that it was just the bare firebox. the weight of those things adds up!

Strapped it to an industrial strength appliance cart. An extra strap at the feet to hold it tight to the bottom tray of the cart.

two people above it holding onto the cart handles and two people below/beside it on the steps to the basement....eased it down the steps, took less than 5 minutes. Once on the basement concrete floor I was able to wheel it into place on the hearth myself while on the appliance cart. "Walked" it into exact position by lifting one side at a time and only moving it about an inch or two. Re-assembled everything.

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With a Warn Winch on my Polaris Sportsman 800.
The fun here .... HOLY CRAP IT's DONE!!! and No One Got Killed or Maimed!!

So far, very ingenious .

I really like that a prius was used to help install a coal stove!! Did you haul it home in that too?!?!??!

titleist1 wrote:I really like that a prius was used to help install a coal stove!! Did you haul it home in that too?!?!??!

Of course!!

Appliance dollies work so much better with the sliders on them.
Or a stair climbers dolly...the right tool makes it SO much easier. I don;t have one, but wish I Did.
http://web.powermate.info/powermate_solutions/?Ta ... ed%20dolly

A whole thread on this subject...Most of us have been there, done that or why didn't I think of that...

How Did You Get Your Coal Stove Into Your House???

borrowed a low trailer, store set boiler on it. Rented piano dolly, had to build a wood frame to slide between boiler base feet for dolly to get boiler up high enough to roll. Place several 2x6 with 3/4 plywood on top(ramp), rolled boier off tailer, into house, put 1/4 luan on wood, tile floors to protect from dolly wheels, right thru house, on to back deck(built specfically for boiler weight) and set into to postion in unfinished room for boiler. easy... at 750#'s no sweat. Well stoping it from rolling at bottom of ramp was a bit tuff...

I pulled my Mk II out of the previous owner's basement using brute force and ignorance.

Two of my favorite tools!

jpete wrote:I pulled my Mk II out of the previous owner's basement using brute force and ignorance.

Two of my favorite tools!

Funny. As I was reading through these posts, brute force is exactly what I was thinking...don't know about ignorance though

You know, this is the 21st century. We've had people on the moon, cars that talk and drive for us, and have a 16 trillion dollar deficit. You'ld think by now, someone would invent a composite stove that only weighs 50LBs. (And I'm sure it would be really efficient. )

rockwood wrote:

jpete wrote:I pulled my Mk II out of the previous owner's basement using brute force and ignorance.

Two of my favorite tools!

Funny. As I was reading through these posts, brute force is exactly what I was thinking...don't know about ignorance though

I'd have to be stupid to try to lift a Mk II up a near vertical set of bulk head stairs using just brute force!

My son and I unloaded my boiler from the pickup, moved it through my house and down a flight of basement stairs using rollers, levers and a chain fall. Easy peazy.