Using systainers to hoist hutch onto sideboard

[Frank Pellow]

It seems that all my neighbours and nearby friends have problems with their arms and/or their backs, so it is difficult to get someone at short notice to help me lift and move items.  

I'm lucky that my back and arms are still OK and I have devised various ways of moving things safely by myself or with minimum assistance of my wife Margaret (who has a bad back).

Today, I completed a renovation to our dining room and had to move the furniture back in.  One task was to get the heavy hutch back on top of the sideboard.  I accomplished this by lifting it in stages with Margaret inserting one systainer at a time on top of each of two stacks.  Here is a photo taken when the hutch is at the proper height to slide onto the sideboard:

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[semenza]

It seems that all my neighbours and nearby friends have problems with their arms and/or their backs, so it is difficult to get someone at short notice to help me lift and move items. 

I'm lucky that my back and arms are still OK and I have devised various ways of moving things safely by myself or with minimum assistance of my wife Margaret (who has a bad back).

Today, I completed a renovation to our dining room and had to move the furniture back in.  One task was to get the heavy hutch back on top of the sideboard.  I accomplished this by lifting it in stages with Margaret inserting a systainer at a time on top of each of two stacks.  Here is a photo taken when the hutch is at the proper height to slide onto the sideboard:

Probably why your back is still OK. 

I move lots of large things by myself with similar methods.  I think I have used Systainers  a couple times. I usually have enough blocks of wood and such around.

Seth

 

[danrush]

yep, I find myself using systainers as lift assists quite often. In this case, it took 3 guys, 3 cabinet lifts, and 2 systainers to lift this 400 lb hood.

 

[Jonhilgen]

Been there, done that!  Truly a back saver.  And they always show up on time, nor do they complain.

Jon

 

[Tinker]

Frank,
That is quite ingenious moving job.  I haven't tried that using systainers, but when doing stonework, i often built stone cairns just to get an oversized stone up onto a high section of wall.  As my back deteriorated, but i kept on doing masonry, i finally bought a couple of backhoes.  That was soooo much easier.  For now, i keep the projects small and manageable.  THE BOSS don't allow no backhoes in the house.  :

BTW, That is a nice job of leading in the glass.  from past posts and pics, i am sure that is your work as well.
I once got a stone fireplace job for an antique collector.  He had a lot of hand blown glass windows and even some in cabinets, all withbubbles and other defects common to very old glass.  While going over the scope of my work, i was, at the same time observing much of his old glass.  As i discussed my work, i was beginning to notice he did have a sense of humor.  I finally told him that I could give him a great discount on the stone work.  The discount being that I would do him the favor of replacing all of that ugly old glass thruout his house.

The poor guy just did not know a good deal when he had one.  [eek]  He didn't even want me cleaning the piles of ancient glass from his shed. 
Tinker

 

[sancho57]

I havent thought of that either, but I sure will be useing that idea.

I also use a #4 systainer to set a door on edge for routing the hinge mortises when Im using the MFT as a door bench. depending on the size of the door I would use use whatever size systainer to set it at the best height for me.

 

[Frank Pellow]

Frank,
That is quite ingenious moving job.  I haven't tried that using systainers, but when doing stonework, i often built stone cairns just to get an oversized stone up onto a high section of wall.  As my back deteriorated, but i kept on doing masonry, i finally bought a couple of backhoes.  That was soooo much easier.  For now, i keep the projects small and manageable.  THE BOSS don't allow no backhoes in the house.  :

BTW, That is a nice job of leading in the glass.  from past posts and pics, i am sure that is your work as well.
I once got a stone fireplace job for an antique collector.  He had a lot of hand blown glass windows and even some in cabinets, all withbubbles and other defects common to very old glass.  While going over the scope of my work, i was, at the same time observing much of his old glass.  As i discussed my work, i was beginning to notice he did have a sense of humor.  I finally told him that I could give him a great discount on the stone work.  The discount being that I would do him the favor of replacing all of that ugly old glass thruout his house.

The poor guy just did not know a good deal when he had one.   [eek]  He didn't even want me cleaning the piles of ancient glass from his shed.  
Tinker

The leaded glass is not mine.  We purchased the hutch from a small furniture company about 3 kilometres from our house about 10 years ago.  It is real lead came in the windows, not some fake pasted on lead-look-alike that is seen so much these days.

The windows in the hutch are really the reason that I started doing stained glass work.  They inspired me when I decided to build some new doors for our house and the rest is history (see http://festoolownersgroup.com/member-projects/project-to-build-and-install-walnut-doors-with-embedded-stained-glass/)