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Hand truck and 4 guys. Or cut 1/2 way through with angle grinder the hit with a sledge hammer.

Can you hang a chain fall at the top of the stairs. Cut a hole in the plaster or drywall. Drill a joist with an angle drill and push a piece of 3/8 wire rope through the hole and put wire rope clips on it.

If the stairs are not too steep and the stairs are straight outside you can hook a come along or a winch to a truck. Make a trough of 2 x8s or 2 x10s and nail some sheet metal to the bottom with flat heat roofing nails and winch them out on edge.

another way is to lay 2 x6s on stairs and lay the sections on them flat. Pull them up the sections will dig into the 2 x 6s and the whole works will slide out.

I have done Smith 28s where the F & B sections are 800#. Those Burnhams are smaller probably 500# each

Cutting torch is NG on cast iron won't work.

the receptacle behind the gas pipe is a nice touch

If you can, buy a nice heavy duty dolly. If the stairs are able, put a heavy duty ramp on them and with a few people go up the ramp with the extra help. If you have to take a brake on the ramp, have some one closely watching and shove wood under a wheel to stop it in its location while the person holds it. I’ve done this at a school with a bad dolly and a sketchy ramp situation. More people is always better.

other than that there’s no easy way about getting those sections out unless there’s easy access to the outdoors (like no stairs)

Cut them into "small" pieces. Cut them in a method of your choice and load them to the scrap yard. Or, even better, see if you can have a "scrapper" take them for you. Depending on your area, scrapers might want the whole load.

Scrapper came right down to the basement to haul away sections of my old Burham 5B, including two buckets of rust chips from the collapsing pedestal. Not sure if he got money for the chips or just did us a favor. That said the boiler sections were (only) 150 lbs each.

a combination of cutting with the diamond wheel, a little sawzall action with the expensive Diablo blade, some old school sledgehammering.

If your nice new vapourstat (good for you, by the way!) doesn't shut off the boiler when you think it should, it is possible that it is miswired. It — and the low water cutoff — should both stop; the boiler when they are activated, but it is possible — since there seem to be one or two other things which are peculiar — that something else is wired in parallel with it instead of in series…

See if you can trace the wiring out to see what is connected to what and how.

I ended up removing the street 45 as that was impinging on the door too. I then cut off the barb. It just basically clears. I can get either a funnel or small pie tin under it to collect the water. By the way, the drain was clogged for a bit and then water started to drain after a couple seconds. Thanks for your help, all.