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Unloading the actual boiler is becoming a challenge. I have a boom on the 3 point hitch of my tractor and it will lift it. But I have to choke up the chain so much I can't lower the boiler to the ground. Rigging up some planks and my trailer ramps to slide it off the truck. I have to have someone come help me and I'm stuck here by myself.
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- Freddy
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Congrats on finding a boiler!
Can you lower it some? If you can get it within 6 or 12 inches of the ground..... go buy some blocks of ice. Set the boiler on the ice. Come back the next day & it'll be where you want it.
Or, lower it as much as you can... then maybe drive the front wheels of the tractor up some ramps?
Can you lower it some? If you can get it within 6 or 12 inches of the ground..... go buy some blocks of ice. Set the boiler on the ice. Come back the next day & it'll be where you want it.
Or, lower it as much as you can... then maybe drive the front wheels of the tractor up some ramps?
- Richard S.
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I'll have to remeber that ice idea, that's one of those things you may only ever use once in your life but you'll look like genius for thinking of it.Freddy wrote: Can you lower it some? If you can get it within 6 or 12 inches of the ground..... go buy some blocks of ice. Set the boiler on the ice. Come back the next day & it'll be where you want it.
Or, lower it as much as you can... then maybe drive the front wheels of the tractor up some ramps?
Other that what was suggested how about jacking the front of the tractor up? Let some air out the back tires?
The air idea actually came from a story from my uncle told me, he had to make a delivery where he drove the truck into a garage. It fit on the way in but once the load is off it gains a few inches and he forgot about it. Had to let the air out the tires to get it out.
- LsFarm
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Lift it off with the 3-pt lift, set it on several concrete blocks, or a stack of wood, or planks over stacked firewood,, anything high enough off the ground to give you slack in the chain,, then reattach with as much chain as you can,, and set on the ground, or repeat the operatiion...
I usually have a stack of concrete blocks around,, just make a 2-high or 3-high stack, with a plank across them..
WHATEVER you do,, DON't put yourself in a postiion for the boiler to tip off the stack and fall on YOU!! Especially if you are alone!! Put your cell phone in your pocket !!
I remember a friend looking at a setup I was about to set in motion.. He said,, just a minute,, let me dial 91... and keep my finger over the number 1.. 'cause that contraption looks like we're gonna need help !! I laughed and rebuilt the setup.. and 911 wasn't needed..
Safety first !!
Congrats on the purchase... that should do just fine for your needs..
Greg L
I usually have a stack of concrete blocks around,, just make a 2-high or 3-high stack, with a plank across them..
WHATEVER you do,, DON't put yourself in a postiion for the boiler to tip off the stack and fall on YOU!! Especially if you are alone!! Put your cell phone in your pocket !!
I remember a friend looking at a setup I was about to set in motion.. He said,, just a minute,, let me dial 91... and keep my finger over the number 1.. 'cause that contraption looks like we're gonna need help !! I laughed and rebuilt the setup.. and 911 wasn't needed..
Safety first !!
Congrats on the purchase... that should do just fine for your needs..
Greg L
I've never seen the exchanger tubes in the pictures that stoker man posted.
so here are a couple.
BTW: It slid off just fine. Nice and easy. Tuesday I have to put it in the basement. Thats going to be fun.
Then I have to figure out how to get the engine hoist in the basement to put it together.
Fun Fun.
so here are a couple.
BTW: It slid off just fine. Nice and easy. Tuesday I have to put it in the basement. Thats going to be fun.
Then I have to figure out how to get the engine hoist in the basement to put it together.
Fun Fun.
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It slid right off the ramps I had set up. Nice and Easy!!LsFarm wrote:Lift it off with the 3-pt lift, set it on several concrete blocks, or a stack of wood, or planks over stacked firewood,, anything high enough off the ground to give you slack in the chain,, then reattach with as much chain as you can,, and set on the ground, or repeat the operatiion...
I usually have a stack of concrete blocks around,, just make a 2-high or 3-high stack, with a plank across them..
WHATEVER you do,, DON't put yourself in a postiion for the boiler to tip off the stack and fall on YOU!! Especially if you are alone!! Put your cell phone in your pocket !!
I remember a friend looking at a setup I was about to set in motion.. He said,, just a minute,, let me dial 91... and keep my finger over the number 1.. 'cause that contraption looks like we're gonna need help !! I laughed and rebuilt the setup.. and 911 wasn't needed..
Safety first !!
Congrats on the purchase... that should do just fine for your needs..
Greg L
Of course I cut the long plank you see in the picture so it fit.
- CoalHeat
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Nice find! Oh and what kind of tractor?
- stoker-man
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That boiler is at least 30 years old. The never boilers are not made that way. We have one in the shop on its side and I'll take a picture of it on Tuesday.
- LsFarm
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The newer ones are made more like this:
Greg L
I think this design with water-filled ribs would be much easier to clean.Greg L
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Thats a water tube boilerLsFarm wrote:The newer ones are made more like this:I think this design with water-filled ribs would be much easier to clean.
Greg L
The one above looks like a fire tube boiler
After living with both as a kid - boiler tender - make that the one that got the crappy jobs ..... I would scrap the water tube boiler rather than live with it.
But then my opinions have met with flame in the past and most likely will again.