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So did you get her did ? Or what ?
I wanna see pics

Come on; think about what you're saying.

This is Me we're talking about. <g>

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Originally Posted by Tommy knocker

Or at the hospital checking on the guy you got crushed.

how was it delivered and or taken off the truck

Originally Posted by Poodle Head Mikey

If I was running this job the unit would have been upright by last Tuesday and probably running by now and we'd all be out celebrating at some titty roadhouse.

Or at the hospital checking on the guy you got crushed.

If I was running this job the unit would have been upright by last Tuesday and probably running by now and we'd all be out celebrating at some titty roadhouse.

If you using a single piec of equip. i recommend a spreader bar as well good luck let us know how it works out pics would be nice to

I vote for wrecker or ag equipment. If have machinery involved like that think, about what they are driving on. Almost used a skidsteer to change a RTAA screw but quickly switched to gantry when I asked what laid beneath the dirt.

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chainfalls,come alongs, chokers etc....

Come on boys! Where's your can-do American Spirit? Can't turn over a lousy little 5000 pound unit without specialized equipment?

Please! <g>

If machinery is out of the question, you may need to resort to a purpose built structure to hoist it.

IMO, the risk of personal injury or damaging expensive equipment it too high trying to fool with this thing without heavy machinery.

Originally Posted by GT Jets

Rural recovery tow truck....Been there and done that. Should be a fairly routine job for them...

That's an awsome idea!! I never thought of that. Some of those are pretty stocky and can definitely get in where a crane can't. Thanks for putting that out.

Rural recovery tow truck....Been there and done that. Should be a fairly routine job for them...

tie 100,000 helium balloons to it

For safeties sake, your not gonna like this, load it back up. Take to a crane, set uprite and attach legs. Set it back on trailer take it back to site. Get 2 gantries and set the unit in place. 5000lbs, 23ft long? Trying to man handle that could get someone killed or crippled. Be smart not brave here.

If it has to be done Only with manpower -

Then you will need some long levers to bolt/chain/attach to the bottom of the unit - picture that these would be vertical initially. Four or five levers - each maybe triple the width of the unit. Then with lines to the top ends of the levers - both pull and hold-back - use four or five guys on each line to pull it over onto something just past over-center. Old tires or the actual blocking.

The levers could be full lengths of 3" sch. 40 iron pipe I would think.

Where is the job located? Does "rural" mean: a farming area? Because . . . what else would they be storing in a refrigerated warehouse? A tractor or three would make it a cakewalk to turn the unit - but I could get it done with a full platoon on site.

What I would do it to haul it up and over past 45º with nylon chokers (or chain) both pulling and hold-back. Where it is going to be set upright I would stack something - like old tires - so that it could fall past / over-center - but not crash down suddenly. Once it was sitting on the tires I would jack up the side on the tires and install wood blocking. Then gradually jack and remove the blocking until it was setting on it's feet.

In fact; maybe I would just pull it over directly onto the blocking - I'd have to be there to say which.

Use two large trucks or tractors or dozers for the pull / hold-backs.

Two guys, two drivers, two hours or less.

so you need to roll it 90 deg, and lift it to install the legs?

with the size and weight of that beast i don't see how you would do it without a crane, where are you located?

Originally Posted by 2sac

So its a verticle discharge and you want to make it a horizontal discharge? Call the mfg and see if that's even possible.

I think he wants to know how to set it up right with out using a crane.

Good luck with that!!

So its a verticle discharge and you want to make it a horizontal discharge? Call the mfg and see if that's even possible.