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Originally posted by fridge guy
Our company picked up a trolly that has a hydraulic deck. Once the compressor has been lifted to the proper height I lock the brakes on the cart put a metal plate between the cart and the rack and slide it into place.

They use those in some machine shops for lifting punch press dies onto storage shelves.
I've used them.

Hmmm... sounds like a good idea.

I've changed many a compressor on racks and over the years and we got smarter. Our company picked up a trolly that has a hydraulic deck. Once the compressor has been lifted to the proper height I lock the brakes on the cart put a metal plate between the cart and the rack and slide it into place. No lifting,no prying and most importantly no one gets hurt!

Hey cool thats the way i was taught to remove a comp from a superpluss from a market tech with AAA Refrig in the Bronx....must be a city thing.lol


Welcome to the board.

Don't know if my post will get read, since this is an older thread.but...I'm brand new to this forum, glad i joined, lot's of good info. Am I correct in thinking that alot of you techs are from Calif? I'm from NJ, was a market guy for 27 years, now an in house industrial guy, working for a supermarket chain's distribution warehouses. Still in the Union making same overscale wages, same bennies. Got out cuz of the hours and 2 sick parents I had to care for. Bopth passed now, but i still miss the supers!!

Wife and I are planning on moving south when may last girl is in college (3 years). I was treated pretty good compared to some of the stories I've been reading, especially you IR guys. I was actually thinking about going back to the market stuff when I move, alot could happen by then though,maybe I'll come to my senses!

ANYWAY...Changed alot of compressors on alot of different racks, and they are alot tighter now, the Superplus's are the worst!! Used 2 piecs of short channel under the compressr pushed all the way to the back and the front onto metal milk crates with a chain and come along for support, just in case, and she used to slide out pretty easy. I drained the oil and took the float off and took the terminal box cover right off the compressor with all the controls and BX still connected to the box(tied out of the way) The hardest part was putting the box back on with the rubber gasket and the screws lining up. Why did Hussmann ever spin the suction end bells? That was assanine! Rattled too long, my longest reply yet. Keep the faith fellas.

ROTFLMFAO...

Originally posted by bowman
No but ir does....lmao....

Uh, No. They don't have enough, either.

Im a service supervisor for the harrisburg, pa branch....

bowman, if i may ask out of what branch?

Yeppers, that i am...

sounds like you're a man of the big blue H ?

No but ir does....lmao....

Not too bad except I had to do it twice

Had a 20 hp, had to bring up from there


through here


through here, too


For this


On here

hussmann still buying?

Originally posted by condenseddave

Originally posted by bowman
Lots of whinning going on here....lol...if ya dont want to do it, just let us know and well come buy ya out...rotflmfao....Eric

You're a real comedian today.

Hussmann doesn't have that much money.

Perhaps .... they are thinking they wont NEEEEEED that much money........

Originally posted by bowman
Lots of whinning going on here....lol...if ya dont want to do it, just let us know and well come buy ya out...rotflmfao....Eric

You're a real comedian today.

Hussmann doesn't have that much money.

Originally posted by Freezeking2000
I feel your pain dave. I had to work until 6 pm one night this week on my new job..and I had to change a 1/3 hp lt r-12 unit.WHEW!

We got a fifteen down on a low temp rack. Gotta R & R first thing in the morning.
Store manager asks if I can delete the midnight defrost. I say sure.
He leads me up the stairs into the motor room and there is all this junk stacked everywhere!
I have no clue how my parter spent the last couple hours there diagnosing the unit and making his shopping list.

There was barely room to walk, much less to work.

I told the manager and his assistant no one was leaving the room until this stuff was removed. He smiled and began grunting stuff into another room. Gads .... these people...


I stopped by Grainger tonight and picked up a chain hoist for tomorrow.
The guy whose hoist we normally use is outa town for the next two weeks.

This one was much nicer than his.
It has a lever and a knob. And a short stubby handle.

You can incrementally raise or lower the load, safely and easily, effortlessly even.
And you dont have to jerk no chain to do it either!
You simply turn a dial or use the lever. You have complete control over the load at all times.

No more course adjustments only, now you can make fine adjustments all the way up or down.

COOL!!!!

It costs some bucks, but considering a guy just got hurt bad last week due to using his chain fall hoist, the company shouldnt complain about the cost of this little darling..... ($239).


Reviews tomorrow night ....

Like you did with Sunbelt?

Lots of whinning going on here....lol...if ya dont want to do it, just let us know and well come buy ya out...rotflmfao....Eric

Hey Freezeking,

How's it going so far?

Originally posted by R12rules
Hussman Engineering... strikes again!!!

I'm going to take a pic of what I had to do two times last week. Post tomorrow.