How to move a 3 ton boiler that your tractor can't lift. FarmCraft101

so it's time to move my boiler this beast weighs 6,000 pounds and I'm starting from here and we're heading over there but first I need that concrete slab here I've got laid out the slab the wood sheds gonna go here there's gonna be a space in between the woodshed and this is where the boiler is gonna go I left this square out because the utilities come into the back of the boiler and I don't want to have to deal with concrete when I'm hooking up the utilities so I'll be able to dig right to where the utilities come in so first step I need to get this top soil off of here so I'm gonna do some marking paint now let's get the backhoe on the tractor [Music] [Music] so they're the top soils off just need some stone [Applause] getting ready to move this beast first thing I got to do is get it unhooked actually the first first thing I have to do is drain the propylene glycol out of it I have propylene glycol in it because I don't have to worry about the boiler being fired in cold weather it won't freeze so if it was just full of water and it was theoretically zero degrees out and I didn't have it fired it could actually crack because the ice would get in and expand so so I don't have to worry about that but propylene glycol is not free so I got to save it so I'm gonna get some big trash cans and some hose and I will drain it into into some trash cans down here below it down here you can see a pipe coming out of the ground what this is is a conduit with the electric in it this is an insulated pipe that has two water lines hot and a cold the hot line actually hit pumps out of the bottom of the boiler it goes through this pump which just turns around and takes it through the red so that's the the hot line going to the house and then this is the cold line coming back from the house which comes up and dumps in the top of the boiler so the cold water will go down through the hot water and it'll mix so you end up with a steady temperature in your in your boiler water I'm not gonna move it the way I originally wanted to using that lift hook up there it was a neat idea it would have been interesting because theoretically you could do that without any heavy equipment you just need a big lever and men that are strong enough to get it in position and then just stack it with counter weights but I decided it's gonna be too dangerous too much work not worth my time so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna drag it with the tractor now when I bought this thing he told me to only use the lift hook but when I look under there I mean it's sitting on feet and it has a tubing frame underneath so I think it's gonna be fine if you look here on this side I've got feet and then over here I have these I don't know if those are for guiding a forklift or what it kind of looks like it doesn't it but whatever those are and I'm I've got a space in between there that I could put a skid and it'll actually keep it in position between the feet whatever this thing is so what I've done is measured it I need four and a half by five and a half so I'm going to go off to the sawmill and I'm going to cut myself a couple skids [Applause] that's four and a half by 15 all right two skids the plans gonna be once I have the skids I'm gonna jack it up there and there with to farm jacks and that'll get the whole thing up enough that I can pull those concrete pads out of there put the skid in and then let it back down so one of the tricks to moving this boiler it doesn't look like that big of a deal it's right here and I'm gonna move it to right there the problem is it needs to turn around this side is the door the side is where you load it so once it's over here the door needs to be facing this way so I'm gonna have to get it on those skids and then spin it 180 degrees and then drag it over there all right now we need to Jack this thing up so I don't know what the official name for this type of Jack is I always call it a farm jack and pretty cool pretty handy lift upwards of around 6,000 pounds and they don't they don't use hydraulics the way it's working is there's two pins and they're going into these holes and basically you're levering off of one pin until the other one can be set in place whether you're going up or down so if you watch you'll see those pins one goes out one goes in and you're basically just walking from one pin hole to the next using this big lever so see that pin just came up and then engaged with the next hole so now I'm levering off of that one until the next one comes up and pops into the hole and now the weights being handled on that pin so I can move the next one up to the next hole I had battery problems so basically I drag the the concrete out I put the skin underneath and I just lowered it down I just used one Jack to lower it and now this side is on the skid I'm gonna do the exact same thing on the other side so I'll make sure I get that footage I think I'm just gonna try it with one all right I've got the chains hooked up they're equal lengths they're both going to the front end loader and then of course the tractor [Music] [Music] no problem [Music] here I'm spreading sand to help it slide better on the concrete this actually worked very well [Music] [Music] now before I pull it into position the back of the boiler is going to overhang off of this end and the utilities are going to come up underneath the boiler they come up through that hole right there so if I just pull the boiler into position right now I'm gonna have a heck of a time digging that out so I'm gonna get the backhoe and I'm just going to dig that down [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] and there it is all leveled out so I did one thing with this shed that's a little unusual but there's reasons for it the concrete is not level now why would I do that and draw the main reason is to say [Music]

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Length: 15min 56sec (956 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 28 2018