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24th March 2014, 04:32 PM #31Member
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We have loaders and a forklift here on the farm thankfully. I once bought a Macson horizontal mill cheap because it was to hard to move. A mate and I went down on a sat night with a tandem trailer, crowbar, pallet cart, blocks of wood and a turfor winch. We started with the crow bar till we could get the pallet cart under, then wheeled it behind the trailer and lifted and blocked until it was trailer height and then carefully inched it onto the trailer. They guy we bought it from watched us the whole time but didn't help a bit!! We have used the same setup several times. The engine hoist is also handy for lifting onto a trailer when buying things. the worst part is lifting it back on the ute or trailer. It often amazes me how often people think you can't shift things with a crow bar.
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24th March 2014, 10:11 PM #32
Chain hoist, chain lever block, pallet jack, mobile gantry and the tractor. Next on the wish list is definitely a forklift, especially now I have something big enough to drag it out of the mud when it gets stuck around here!!! its either dust or mud around here, not ideal for maintaining forward momentum for a fork once you get off the gravel.
Good sturdy pipe can do wonders wrt moving heavy items around the floor. Outside off the conc, bigger diameter pipe.www.lockwoodcanvas.com.au
I will never be the person who has everything, not when someone keeps inventing so much cool new stuff to buy.
From an early age my father taught me to wear welding gloves . "Its not to protect your hands son, its to put out the fire when u set yourself alight".
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25th March 2014, 09:31 PM #33GOLD MEMBER
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26th March 2014, 08:07 AM #35GOLD MEMBER
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27th March 2014, 10:19 PM #36Senior Member
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I'm lucky enough to have an excavator... but my shed is too low to actually get stuff inside so its back to rolling it on pipes to get it inside.
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28th March 2014, 12:33 AM #37Senior Member
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Lifting and shifting.
Got spoiled during my working life when I had a choice of excavators, cranes etc to move things, so when I retired I hung onto an old forklift with jib attachment, a cable excavator (former dragline) with 12.5m boom, and a 1 tonne electric hoist in the workshop. There is a small hydraulic crane on the Landcruiser that's OK for 600 kg or so, and a guy down the road with an 8 tonne Franna mobile, so moving things in is not a problem. Got to find a place to move some of it OUT to, before shop and yard resemble the scrap dealer's place. Can scarcely give scrap away here, as I am over 800 km from Darwin and 3000 km from Perth, so freight cost makes it worthless unless it's copper or aluminium. What to do with it all?
Combustor.Old iron in the Outback, Kimberley WA.
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28th March 2014, 08:21 AM #38GOLD MEMBER
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