suggestions needed - please help

lakill Farm

Have a metal platform to take off a wall, however im not really sure how its attached to the wall, but im pretty sure its with M12 type bolts

Object is 2.5m long x 1m wide
weights from 100-150kg ( I cant tell but its mostly made from 6inch U channel)
about 6inch thick
ground is solid below

issues :
its 50 miles away from my house
its in the back garden of someone else's house with only narrow access ( 1 meter wide with 2 90 degree turns. So cant bring in a teleporter or forklift



I was thinking maybe put up a single bay of scaffold directly underneath the platform and use a 3 ton trolley jack to take the strain of the weight as its unbolted/unattached from the wall

then using 4 band stands, placed either side of the scaffold as steps to get down the platform from the scaffold

The working at 10ft height and the uncertain weight is the unknown and difficult factors

All suggestions welcome and could patch together a plan before Friday

Bullocks

Could you cut it into smaller sections with a consaw off the scaffold ?

C0N0R

Build a scaffold and use chain pulleys to lower it?

lakill Farm

Bullocks wrote: »

Could you cut it into smaller sections with a consaw off the scaffold ?

its to be reused .

I missed that issue sorry

lakill Farm

C0N0R wrote: »

Build a scaffold and use chain pulleys to lower it?

caught with the facia of the house its on

had the plan of using a car engine crane also but wount work

Think im going to need to prop from directly underneath

Miname

lakill Farm wrote: »

caught with the facia of the house its on

had the plan of using a car engine crane also but wount work

Think im going to need to prop from directly underneath

Acrow prop it and lower it onto bandstands. Make sure it's well propped and a few ratchet straps to tie it back in case it slips.

Kevhog1988

theres a tool for raising heads /girders into place that would go to that height. Give me 5 minutes and ill get you a link. folds down to the same size as a pallet truck

Kevhog1988

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=genie+lift&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIxe6io5znxwIVxWjbCh1EDwdN&biw=1280&bih=645#tbm=isch&q=genie+lift+sla+10

This is what i was talking about. I have used them before on a refurbishment job. Not hard to set up at all.

Muckit

Am.....take it out the same way it went in?

Muckit

Remember if this comes down wrong it'll hurt incredibly more than a collapsed tent!

All joking aside, it sounds like a job for 4 strong lads. Even at that it sounds tricky because you have the height aspect to deal with. I take it its a loft stairs or a bacony type thing that you've bought for the new 'stables '?

lakill Farm

Muckit wrote: »

Remember if this comes down wrong it'll hurt incredibly more than a collapsed tent!

All joking aside, it sounds like a job for 4 strong lads. Even at that it sounds tricky because you have the height aspect to deal with. I take it its a loft stairs or a bacony type thing that you've bought for the new 'stables '?

Ye a balcony :pac:

lakill Farm

Muckit wrote: »

Am.....take it out the same way it went in?

probably put up with a teleporter before the back gardens were closed in

MickeyShtyles

Any chance of a picture??

lakill Farm

theemigrant wrote: »

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=genie+lift&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIxe6io5znxwIVxWjbCh1EDwdN&biw=1280&bih=645#tbm=isch&q=genie+lift+sla+10

This is what i was talking about. I have used them before on a refurbishment job. Not hard to set up at all.

that is the job alright

I called a place about 2 mile from where the balcony is and they have one with extendable forks and all

lakill Farm

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

Any chance of a picture??

will take a few on Saturday

Kevhog1988

lakill Farm wrote: »

that is the job alright

I called a place about 2 mile from where the balcony is and they have one with extendable forks and all

yeah there a great job alright!, cheap enough to hire too iirc.

Bullocks

theemigrant wrote: »

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=genie+lift&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIxe6io5znxwIVxWjbCh1EDwdN&biw=1280&bih=645#tbm=isch&q=genie+lift+sla+10

This is what i was talking about. I have used them before on a refurbishment job. Not hard to set up at all.

I hired 2 of them for putting in a pig of an rsj a couple of months ago . The mast comes up the back of the forks by about a foot so just make sure you have the height to use it and over the bottom of the balcony and use ratchet straps to keep it balanced just in case !

Kevhog1988

Bullocks wrote: »

I hired 2 of them for putting in a pig of an rsj a couple of months ago . The mast comes up the back of the forks by about a foot so just make sure you have the height to use it and over the bottom of the balcony and use ratchet straps to keep it balanced just in case !

Had the same problem. I put a pallet on it so it was that bit higher

lakill Farm

theemigrant wrote: »

Had the same problem. I put a pallet on it so it was that bit higher

good idea that

I sourced one with extendable legs

Kevhog1988

lakill Farm wrote: »

good idea that

I sourced one with extendable legs

pallet will help spread the load also. I would jack it up under and then fix it to the hoist with maybe small ratchet straps etc. Then undo bolts and clear away from the area before lowering it down. I guess youll also have to pull it back that slight amount to clear the rawl bolts in the wall too. Might be an idea to put two stay ropes on it (with two hefty chaps attached) so that it cant tip forward as your lowering it.