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Have to move my stove about 5 feet onto my hearth pad. Besides a hand cart or movers straps, any clever ideas. Have to be careful of the cast iron legs.
Trouble is Quad states in their instructions not to lift the stove up onto one set of legs as they are saying they could break off from all the weight on two legs. If they were plain old steel I wouldn't be worried. Good idea what your saying. Let me think :shut:Webmaster said:I always default to the basics.....you could lift that stove a couple inches with a 2x4 used as a lever (and some short cut offs).
You could, for instance, set 2-2x6's flat (3 inches) from the unit to the heart - 2 sets of them to match the distance apart the legs are....then lift one side of the stove upon them using a lever or human strength - put one of those magic gliders or a piece of plastic underneath the leg so it slides...slide the stove toward the hearth and then lift the other end up....then slide the whole thing right on the hearth, using some heavy cardboard or similar once the legs get on the hearth so you can slide around without scratching the brick or tile.
Heck, I could do that by my lonesome.....with junk sitting around the house and shop. No need to lift much.
Thanks for the idea, I do have a floor jack.Danno77 said:my wife says that if your wife will hand you her purse and the pouch that she carries your balls in then she should be able to do it for you.
in all seriousness, though. I'd save my back and get an assortment of boards and plywood to use a floor jack to lift the stove onto a furniture dolly, then roll the stove up a makeshift ramp onto the hearth, then use jack to lift off of dolly and lower onto hearth.
I've got those same type friends too, the longer you stand there and BS, the bigger you realize they are. You know they're big when they complain they can't get logging boots big enough :lol:Backwoods Savage said:When we put our 500 pound rock on the hearth (a 16" lift) we first brought inside the house on a furniture dolly. Then it took 3 of us to lift it onto the hearth after we removed any weight that we could. We did use 2 2x4's under the stove to lift. It really was not bad at all but the two guys I got to help were gorillas. lol They are the type you want for friends and not enemies.
xclimber said:Have to move my stove about 5 feet onto my hearth pad. Besides a hand cart or movers straps, any clever ideas. Have to be careful of the cast iron legs.
Zoo's closed today :lol:ChillyGator said:xclimber said:Have to move my stove about 5 feet onto my hearth pad. Besides a hand cart or movers straps, any clever ideas. Have to be careful of the cast iron legs.
600 lb Gorilla
My chimney guy "friend" came by this morning, we lifted the stove to swap out the ill built legs on the new stove, for the ones that were built right. Him and I feel will be able to lift the stove. Couple of ropes . My buddy said he's moved tons of stoves using old bed sheets, wrapped around his arms . He said they work well. He's comming back next week to help me make the move.firefighterjake said:Friends + drinks (after the fact) = moved stove.
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