Consider the use of a snatch block. It enables you to pull in one direction
while the load moves in another direction. More than one snatch block can be
used to accomplish strange moves. And you can compound your pull too.

On Jan 28, 2015, at 9:22 AM, Dragon List  wrote:

> james, the movers here at the uni use 3/8" steel rod for their rollers.
> they moved a 2-ton safe (on flat ground, fortunately) on those.
> 
> bill
> felton, ca
> 
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:23 AM, james duprie  wrote:
> 
>> In the a couple of years, I am going to have to figure out how to move a
>> 1500 pound machine into a closed truck. There are no anchor points in the
>> truck that can take the load, and it will be going up a ramp in order to
>> get
>> into the truck.
>> 
>> Right now my concept is rollers (how I moved the machine last time - 2"
>> thick dowels I turned out of firewood), some sort of choc/wedge anti
>> back-roll, and a long lever bar. Walk it up the ramp in little steps using
>> the lever bar between the ramp and the bottom of the skid - lift, chock,
>> reset bar, continue.
>> 
>> I've lifted large boulders uphill in a similar fashion, but they don't tend
>> to roll back down the ramp....
>> 
>> -JD
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: OldTools [mailto:oldtools-
bounces@s...] On Behalf Of paul
>> womack
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 4:13 AM
>> To: Christopher Swingley; OldTools List
>> Subject: Re: [OldTools] Lifting heavy things
>> 
>> Christopher Swingley wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Every time I go back there, I'm amazed that I was able to do all that,
>>> by myself, with nothing but a couple winches, a pulley, some ropes and
>>> a simple A-frame.  Physics is pretty cool.
>> 
>> There was an excellent program on UK TV concerning the erection (not
>> casting) of Abraham Darby's Iron Bridge.
>> 
>> Short version - A frames and rope.
>> 
>> Long version:
>> 
>> http://www.hdowns.co.uk/iro
nbridge4.htm
>> 
>> (hell, it was back in 2001)
>> 
>>  BugBear
>> 
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