I have a mooring bollard at my brothers shop on the old Navy Base. It is about 4 ft tall with a 32 inch square base. The wall thickness is about 1.5 inches, the cavity is filled with concrete. I figure it weighs about a ton. Give or take a couple hundred pounds. I want to move it to a concrete pad that I am installing at my house on James Island. This is my yard art.
My brother has a fork lift so I can get it up on a truck. I don’t think I want to put it on a pickup. I just can’t bring the forklift with me. The trick is that, once I get it home I need to position it on in the center of the 4x4 slab. There is no “dropping it” or man-handling with pinch bars. Not gonna happen. I don’t want to spend a ton of money moving it. These are the options I have considered, but am very open to suggestion.
using an engine hoist (don’t think the hoist will be wide enough or have the reach)
building some type of A-Frame and using a chain fall to get it off the back of the a truck (a lot of work and expensive)
calling a towing company (they can move it, but positioning it at home is the key)
Calling United and renting a forklift. This seems reasonable but they would have to bring forklift to the house. So I could rent a U-Haul, take it to brothers shop. Load it up, bring it home and meet the rental forklift at the house. I would have a day forklift rental for about 20 minutes worth of work.
Open to suggestions here. If anyone you know would want to tackle this with me, and can do it cheaper than the U-Haul/United rental route, please let me know.
Call a Truss boom truck guy and see what they would charge you. I had a roof raised 12 feet once. The guy picked the old one up and set it down on the new level after the wall panels were put up, in 2 hours! They can boom out a pretty good ways. If they can reach your pad with the boom, should be a quick job!
Is the path to the pad where you will be putting it firm and smooth? If so, get a low trailer and some sections of hard pipe and make some rolling cribbage then leapfrog it into place. A bit more labor intensive but saves money over hiring in a piece of equipment to move one little item.
Mark
Pioneer 222 Sportfish Yamaha F300
Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal? I wouldn’t go so far as to call a dog filthy but they’re definitely dirty. But, a dog’s got personality. Personality goes a long way.
“Life’s tough…It’s even tougher if you’re stupid” John Wayne
Is the path to the pad where you will be putting it firm and smooth? If so, get a low trailer and some sections of hard pipe and make some rolling cribbage then leapfrog it into place. A bit more labor intensive but saves money over hiring in a piece of equipment to move one little item.
Mark
Pioneer 222 Sportfish Yamaha F300
Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal? I wouldn’t go so far as to call a dog filthy but they’re definitely dirty. But, a dog’s got personality. Personality goes a long way.
“Life’s tough…It’s even tougher if you’re stupid” John Wayne
This was going to be my recommendation as well. Low trailer, roll it off, then take 2-3 people and roll it, flip it until it gets on the slab.
Roll and flip! You guys need to get old and broke down a bit more! And, that’s how to do it:smiley: It will only hurt for a little while:wink: Don’t worry, it will feel better when it quits hurting[:0]
Find out where they are building a new house in your area and get the Truss Boom truck driver to stop by after he’s done over there. Cash talks and what the boss don’t know won’t hurt him! All you need to do is have the bollard there when the truck gets there! Or get the guy that is digging the footers and pay him cash to unload and set it in place with his backhoe or bucket! Don’t get yourself hurt with the Roll and Flip thing! Cash Talks:wink:
Heck, go hire a couple of mexican day laborer and show them the bollard and the pad and tell them to have at it.
Mark
Pioneer 222 Sportfish Yamaha F300
Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal? I wouldn’t go so far as to call a dog filthy but they’re definitely dirty. But, a dog’s got personality. Personality goes a long way.
“Life’s tough…It’s even tougher if you’re stupid” John Wayne
LOL; Salty that’s a good one! I once hired a guy to dig out a pool drain line for me! He said he was from Brazil and I really didn’t believe him, I thought he was Mexican but was trying for a little Class! I gave him a pick and shovel and showed him where the line ran. About an hour later I checked to see how he was doing. He was barefoot digging with the shovel. You know, that ground was hard, that’s why I gave him the pick! At that point, I knew he wasn’t from Mexico! Even they wear shoes! He was stomping on that shovel, like he had steel toed boots on! LOL
Mark
Pioneer 222 Sportfish Yamaha F300
Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal? I wouldn’t go so far as to call a dog filthy but they’re definitely dirty. But, a dog’s got personality. Personality goes a long way.
“Life’s tough…It’s even tougher if you’re stupid” John Wayne
The bollard came off of Navy Pier Alpha. Which was the first pier on the Navy Base, and is the one that used to be across from Noisette Creek. I was the project manager/project engineer for the demolition of that pier. I asked the contractor if I could have a bollard and he gave me two. One for me (waterfront structural engineer and commercial diver) and one for my brother (Tugboat Mechanic Extraordinaire). We are both watermen to the core and will be the only two guys in town to have a piece of history (of that weight anyway) in our yard. At least that I know of.
Some people like pink flamingos, bird baths, and garden gnomes. I want a solid steel and concrete filled piece of hardware that used to moor warships. Really that simple.
The bollard came off of Navy Pier Alpha. Which was the first pier on the Navy Base, and is the one that used to be across from Noisette Creek. I was the project manager/project engineer for the demolition of that pier. I asked the contractor if I could have a bollard and he gave me two. One for me (waterfront structural engineer and commercial diver) and one for my brother (Tugboat Mechanic Extraordinaire). We are both watermen to the core and will be the only two guys in town to have a piece of history (of that weight anyway) in our yard. At least that I know of.
Some people like pink flamingos, bird baths, and garden gnomes. I want a solid steel and concrete filled piece of hardware that used to moor warships. Really that simple.
