Moving a 200kg rad

Get two of you to manhandle it? (Only works if you are both built like Geoff Capes).

Build a scaffold framework, then hook up a block and tackle?

that looks at most 50kg.

I have a couple of triangular plates, c 800mm per side, with 100mm diameter industrial castors at each corner for moving large, heavy objects by myself.

Alternatively, hire a set of machinery skates.

Colin Bignell

From a quick google you are looking at 6 to 7 kg/section the one above is 14 sections so 84 to 98 kg.

As for moving it a few blokes ought to be able get it, one end at a time, onto a length of scaff board (or similar) on rollers (bar or scaff tube). Really depends on how far and over what it needs to be moved. If it's only a short distance it might be "walkable", pick up one end move it in an arc, pick up other end repeat.

Jon Connell scribbled...

Moving it where? Upstairs - downstairs - middle of the room - to the dump?

Sounds like a useful thing to construct. Mind you, I'm not moving the bloody things again. Once the tiles are down, these things are staying put.

Ah. Or hire an engine hoist perhaps. I keep forgetting that HSS hire out a massive range of stuff.

Around 20m away to another room so I can tile the floor.

To the dump? *shudder*

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What I would have suggested is a specific product from Machine Mart but given their treatment of Rick Hughes I can't bring myself to suggest anything from that bunch of litigious shysters.

A couple of wheeled boards / platforms would do it. Lift one end onto a board, then the other onto another. (use a long lever under one end if need be with someone stabilising the top of the rad)

(I would be surprised if that really is 200kg though

It's well over a metre wide, 760mm high and almost 300mm deep.

Jon Connell scribbled...

So you can use rollers.

I know a woman who bought 2 cast iron rads off Ebay. Cost a fortune, hire van etc. Had them cleaned up - both were rusted through.

They went to the dump.

Hi-lift jack to raise it and put it, one end at a time, on a plank with big castors fixed under?

If you don't want it then smash it with a big hammer (and PPE) and carry the bits out?

Sell it on ebay - buyer collects.

Robert

You will wonder how you ever did without them if you make a pair.

Colin Bignell

get say 4 broom handles lay the rad on them and push it along with one finger. You just need to stop every so often and move the broom handles along. I done this with 3 x 2 slabs.

"lay the rad on them" easy to say bit with a makers spec dry weight of 185 kg (3.65 cwt, 29 stone) easier said than done. B-)

Might work with the broom handles at right angles to the sections of cast iron rad. But if the edges of then sections are a bit pointy I wouldn't be surprised to see a "pipe cutter" effect after too long.

That's only 60 to 70 kg...

I've moved a whole container on scaffold poles as rollers

Jeez .. thats only just under 1.5 times my body weight and SWMBO can ..Well thats too much info;!...

Watch this guy....