Advice please on two things

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HiI am Aaron and I'm in Brisbane, Australia.I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to describe this for you well enough to understand but I'll take photos asap.In old wooden houses in Queenland (we call them Queenslanders) they often had the laundry under the stilted house. I have this exact issue and there is a three bowl concrete sink under my house on a wooden frame.The sink is an antique and very cool. It's an Aussie icon.The wooden rame however is falling over and will crash to the ground in a month or so.My first problem is that the sink would weigh 300kg easily.It's about 6 foot long, 2 foot deep and 2 foot high.I can't lift it. I've triede with mates and we can't budge it.Because it's under the existing house there is about 6 foot height restriction too.I won't be able to place chains or straps around the sink without having to lift the wooden frame too.What device could I use to lift something like this?I was thinking a engine hoist but I'm not sure how high the arms on one of them is.?A pallet jack maybe?The second issue is welding some arms onto some steel to make like a steel rack to hold the sink.The sink backs onto a wall with four studs available to bolt onto.I was thinking of some 6mm plate with some angle iron at a 90 degree, then some bracing under that?ThanksAs I said, I'll take pics
Reply:Engine hoist should so the job well.  I dont think you will have and height promlems if you keep you lifting sling/chain short.
Reply:As long as the ground is decent, I think an engine hoist should work. Here's a pict of us installing the lathe in my place. The ceiling is about 7' 6" high and we had plenty of room, and still could have shortened up the strap if needed to gain more room.Another option would be a "Dingo" with a set of forks. Most rental centers where I live have one for rent.http://www.dingo.com.au/attachments/forks/overview/.No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! Ronald Reagan
Reply:I imagine it's one of the old concrete laundry sinks? Similar to the photo? No idea how they moved them in... they are plenty heavy. I'd try a hydraulic cart. Roll it under and use some cribbing to support the sink, jack it up enough to remove the frame work and plumbing. Lower it down. Roll it out. You might need to remove the handle and use the cart like a furniture dolly. Attached Images
Reply:Originally Posted by DSWAs long as the ground is decent, I think an engine hoist should work. Here's a pict of us installing the lathe in my place. The ceiling is about 7' 6" high and we had plenty of room, and still could have shortened up the strap if needed to gain more room.Another option would be a "Dingo" with a set of forks. Most rental centers where I live have one for rent.http://www.dingo.com.au/attachments/forks/overview/
Reply:Fulcrums and levers and blocks and skids.  Riggers do it all the time with stuff weighing hundreds of thousands of pounds at a time.  1 mm at a time if you have to. I once got my 1/2 ton Jeep J-10 4WD pickup stuck while crossing a deep, wide ditch.  It was hung on the front and rear bumpers.  I collected rocks, boards, logs and whatnot.  Then proceeded to jack up the vehicle on each corner and block up the tires as I went.  I more or less built a bridge and set the truck down on it and drove out.  That truck (with an iron v-8 engine) was not light.  I weighed 115 pounds and I was all alone.  You ca do it.Last edited by Oldendum; 09-02-2012 at 10:50 PM."USMCPOP" First-born son: KIA  Iraq 1/26/05Syncrowave 250 w/ Coolmate 3Dialarc 250, Idealarc 250SP-175 +Firepower TIG 160S (gave the TA 161 STL to the son)Lincwelder AC180C (1952)Victor & Smith O/A torchesMiller spot welder
Reply:You could remove the plumbing and use a steel plate with a lifting eye in the center up throughout the drain. Attach your engine hoist to them, and then the framework can cut away, and a new frame built around it. Hope that makes sence.Offering CNC Plasma cutting and welding projects.Follow me on facebook https://www.facebook.com/nobigdeal.fabSupport those that support WW.
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Reply:Hi, do your misses a favour and demolish the thing, then go buy her a washing machine.Reminds me of one of my uncles way back when......bought his misses a mangle for her birthday....a mangle, for those not in the clothes washing game, is an iron framed monstrosity with two wooden rollers turned by a geared handle on the side, that your better half is expected to crush the excess water out of clothing by "wringing" it out.....they're museum pieces now, very collectible back in Uk where they still do washing that way....LOL.A Queenslander huh?......when I applied for immigration back in 1980, we got a load of "newspapers" from Australia House in London, and they showed the average Aussie home up on stilts to get the cooling air underneath, and they were Queensanders....didn't think much of them then, probably why I headed for Melbourne.If your so hell bent on moving the thing, I can tell you now it'll work beut with an engine crane......I had to get shot of a huge TV that was being replaced by a LCD type, and the only way I could lift the damm thing was to bring the engine crane into the house, yeah right into the lounge, and rope the TV and lift it......having had a hernia years ago I wasn't going to do it again.Ian.
Reply:You could use a roll around floor jack like they use to lift a car to rase it up then brase it with cribing and build your new frame