What is the safest way to move a boiler down basement stairs?

kaltec

350 pounds or under we use a dolly and ropes 600 pounds and under we use a stair climber anything above 600 pounds we order them in sections

Robert_25

dopey27177 said:

Many of the suggestions are good.
I personally used an appliance had truck and placed 2 2x6" planks on the stairs and used a rope tied to the hand truck. The rope was secured to two studs at the wall above the stairs.
Two men at the top holding the rope so the boiler would not decide to go it alone.
Set the boiler and hand truck on the planks and let the load slide down the stairs slowly.

I had a wood boiler removed from by basement by a man that had a cart built special for that purpose. It looked like a small steel pallet with steel wheels recessed inside. Using pipes and a lever dolly he had that boiler across the cellar in a flash. Strapped the cart to the side, pushed the boiler over so the cart was on the planks, and up it went via the hydraulic crane on the truck. I don't think the whole operation took more than 15 minutes.

SlamDunk

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Found this and had to resurrect tread

HomerJSmith

Gets your wife to do it and sit down and have a beer.

JUGHNE

Yes, check out Ethical Paul's pictures on the first page of this posting, also his avatar.

Solid_Fuel_Man

Use machinery.....and lots of other people who you can supervise....while you talk on the phone and price other jobs....