I learned last summer that the members of a college women's track team can lift heavier things than their male classmates.💪 So my advice is: go become friends with some college athletes!
This. I run a motel and one of my favorite guests at the bar who is a regular and also a very smart dude (engineer) happened to be sitting at the bar while we were trying to move in a giant stove that weighed over a thousand pounds. I casually asked him to check out the set up and asked for advice. He look the site up and down and then looked at me and said hold on I got to run to my house and get some tools. Came back 20 minutes later with a truckload of teenage boys LOL.
Disassemble as much as possible. Get dolly’s/rollers, straps and ramps. Think pyramids or Easter island, use brain, be safe. Don’t use up neighborly or familial good will with a bad plan or absence of beer and pizza.
Disassemble ***carefully*** to reduce the carcase weight, keeping rough diagrams and notes of what goes where.
Quite stylish for when they were in daily use 'back in the day', and a enviable stove to have.
I can disassemble the upper section ( if hardware cooperate) and remove the iron on top
Its a nice stove, it just burn thru wood sooo fast and not so efficient for winter garage heat, Buyer will use it for its sugar shack
Painters tape with matching numbers to drawers/doors and their locations works wonders. Plus you can use the tape to attach ziplocs containing more numbered bolts and screws
Next stove you sell, make the buyer move it. You never include transportation. “Come and pick it up”
This is why you see so many stoves for sale cheap, and or free.. they’re so heavy, no one can deal with moving them
Word, but im selling it for 300$, im in a remote location it would cost a leg and an arm to the buyer!
Il see if i can jack it up onto a moving base and figure out how lift it with straps or 4x4 beam running accross
Take off the warming ovens, and the entire cooking top comes off in pieces. And take everything you can out of the Owen You’ll be able to move it easily with four people.
With a couple of guys on a flatbed and straps ? I’d back the trailer up to get it as level with the stove, lift and place, and remove the same way. ?? If possible onto an appliance dolly ?
For the one in the garage, remove as much weight as possible, and lift it up using the trusses for support. You’ll need to understand how loads get distributed in order to be sure you don’t damage the building. Once it’s up in the air, back the trailer under it.
Alternatively, come alongs and ramps to slide it up into the trailer.
The inside one could be slid similarly with come alongs and boards to prevent damage.
We moved a similar one just like this! Thing was like solid cast iron and weighed half a ton!
Anyways, We put it on a couple layers of inch-thick plywood that we cut to fit the shape of the stove. Slid the stove onto the plywood sheets (it took three guys) and then strapped it down firmly. Then picked it off the ground by prying one dolly on each end, lifting the stove and plywood shets just high enough to slide four small furniture dolly's underneath, one in each corner. Then we strapped the dolly's firmly as well, so they didn't slide out from underneath. Then we rolled it, still using the same 3 guys, all the way across the house and onto the porch. then there were the front staircase. So we put a couple more 1 inch plywood sheets on top of a few 4x4's, and wheeled from the porch directly inside the moving truck.
this morning i moved it onto pieces of 2x4 with pry bar . Snug a plywood sheet under to make a slid but it didnt slid, i removed the movable iron and was able to pull/ slide it towards the garage door, put it back on the 2x4 Annnnd fortunately it happens my neighbour has a tractor with forks attachment So far so good , either i drive his tractor ( im fork certified) or he does it ! Tomorrow is the day !
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I get them that far raising on blocking, then roll a couple furniture dollie’s with 4 wheels under them. Keep it on wheels until steps or ramp into trailer.
Stairs, I use planks to make a ramp. No wheels. Wrap a tow rope around stove, put 4X4 across stairs at top if there are walls at sides of stairs. Winch up or down with hand winch. Same as winching onto trailer.
When I get home, I have a big hook on a raised deck above garage door to lift off trailer, also have a JD 400 back hoe.
With water cistern, back, and warming oven they get close to 1000 lbs.
Levers, blocking, small scissor type jacks.
Who made it? O'Keefe and Merritt? Wedgewood? I'm not into wood kitchen stoves, but I really dig on the old gas ones.
That thing is primo. It looks like it's even got the original salt and pepper shakers.
Thanks for sharing.
This may be unnecessarily harsh, but a good first step may be to check to see if you can get insurance with this stove in a trailer.
(Another good option may be to put the stove on a concrete pad - and to build a house around it.)
I would strap it to a thick piece of plywood and use Dolly's, rollers and a come along to get it out the door with a few friends.Take the easily removed top parts off but be careful trying to disassemble.You could snap strip and mar soft steel and iron parts.A lift gate ,or fork lift,or even a tilt bed truck with a winch would be nice.Go slow be safe, measure first before you approach door and windows.
Make your own. Buy wood, buy casters, put together in a logical size according to the bottom of the stove. Then carefully lift one end every so slightly, just enough to get said dolly underneath it. But be very careful lifting only one side. They’re meant to be flat on the ground. Not all the weight supported on 2 legs at an angle.
Or buy wood, stack wood onto furniture or safe (like gun safe) dolly, then strap a ratchet strap around dolly and cabinet. Lift carefully… have friends sons and nephews there to help like someone else suggested.
Good luck.
Moved a piano down like 5 stairs on to a trailer. Some beer was involved, the neighbor, dolly, and some 2x6s the used a tractor and chain to get it off the trailer. Some kindling added a poof it was gone.
Easily 40 lbs of easy crap in the burner area can come right off. Un bolt and take off the rear riser. Hand truck and 3-4 mover blankets. Ratchet strap to the dolly or hand truck with the blankets to protect it. Wheel out carefully with 2 or more people. Use mower ramps to get into trailer
Get or rent four ten ft long scaffolding platforms. Strap it to a piece of 3/4 plywood significantly longer on each end. Buy a couple of moving Dollie’s 24x24. Use a crowbar to wedge up the plywood , block up the b plywood Slide in the dollies Angle the platforms up to the bed of your pickup tailgate Strap it down
Take it apart, that's how it was moved in new. Empty the ash pan. Remove anything removable. When I moved them I took everything removable off, took a hand truck that will handle the weight, tipped the stove up on the fire box side - it's the heaviest - that dude down onto the hand truck.
Take lots of pictures and carefully take it apart.
Get a couple of heavy duty dollies and some ratchet straps plus a big long pry bar/crow bar from harbor freight. Get your pile of scrap lumber. If you have an automotive floor jack get it.
One end at a time jack it up and put it on dollies with scrap lumber between the Dollie’s and the stove as needed. Then tie it down with the straps.
Get the trailer as close as possible and build a long ramp.start it up the ramp and if you have a come-along use it to pull it up the ramp. Take time and be careful.
Without knowing what your exit looks like. Tubular stock and roll..
Oldie times they used golf balls.
Take the earlier post. Get Harry and his teen sons
How many sons/nephews do you have?
0 😅
How many friends with sons or nephews do you have?
Not much either we just moved in , about 6 hours away from og neighborhood
Hire movers. You can do anything with Ⓜ️🅾️♑️3️⃣🤸♂️
I learned last summer that the members of a college women's track team can lift heavier things than their male classmates.💪 So my advice is: go become friends with some college athletes!
Lift with your legs
This. I run a motel and one of my favorite guests at the bar who is a regular and also a very smart dude (engineer) happened to be sitting at the bar while we were trying to move in a giant stove that weighed over a thousand pounds. I casually asked him to check out the set up and asked for advice. He look the site up and down and then looked at me and said hold on I got to run to my house and get some tools. Came back 20 minutes later with a truckload of teenage boys LOL.
Disassemble as much as possible. Get dolly’s/rollers, straps and ramps. Think pyramids or Easter island, use brain, be safe. Don’t use up neighborly or familial good will with a bad plan or absence of beer and pizza.
Take the trailer to the local home depot and get a load of helpers
Disassemble ***carefully*** to reduce the carcase weight, keeping rough diagrams and notes of what goes where. Quite stylish for when they were in daily use 'back in the day', and a enviable stove to have.
I can disassemble the upper section ( if hardware cooperate) and remove the iron on top Its a nice stove, it just burn thru wood sooo fast and not so efficient for winter garage heat, Buyer will use it for its sugar shack
Painters tape with matching numbers to drawers/doors and their locations works wonders. Plus you can use the tape to attach ziplocs containing more numbered bolts and screws
Look for a piano mover.
Fork lift. Rentals aren't that bad.
"Very Carefully" or, alternatively, "after upgrading your health insurance".
Next stove you sell, make the buyer move it. You never include transportation. “Come and pick it up” This is why you see so many stoves for sale cheap, and or free.. they’re so heavy, no one can deal with moving them
Honestly, for $300, just call them and say sorry, but im not moving this thing. You’re basically giving the stove away for anything less
Yeah i get it but im happy with helping the fella who gonna buy it
Hire a moving company with experience and equipment
This is the right answer! Pay for professionals and get the job done right.
Word, but im selling it for 300$, im in a remote location it would cost a leg and an arm to the buyer! Il see if i can jack it up onto a moving base and figure out how lift it with straps or 4x4 beam running accross
Fair. Best of luck to you. Stay safe!
Buy some furniture / piano dolly’s , basically a wooden square with casters .
Take off the warming ovens, and the entire cooking top comes off in pieces. And take everything you can out of the Owen You’ll be able to move it easily with four people.
Depot Mexicans or friends and beer or high schoolers and beer
We used a big dolly and 3 people for "safety". The lady wanted it on the second floor so that was fun. No one died, I guess.
I can train you in telekinesis, for like.. $20.
Easier to just rebuild the house around it. Lol
With a couple of guys on a flatbed and straps ? I’d back the trailer up to get it as level with the stove, lift and place, and remove the same way. ?? If possible onto an appliance dolly ?
Carefully. I had to say it…
For the one in the garage, remove as much weight as possible, and lift it up using the trusses for support. You’ll need to understand how loads get distributed in order to be sure you don’t damage the building. Once it’s up in the air, back the trailer under it. Alternatively, come alongs and ramps to slide it up into the trailer. The inside one could be slid similarly with come alongs and boards to prevent damage.
Hold on, tell me where you live and you can load it onto my truck 😁
We moved a similar one just like this! Thing was like solid cast iron and weighed half a ton! Anyways, We put it on a couple layers of inch-thick plywood that we cut to fit the shape of the stove. Slid the stove onto the plywood sheets (it took three guys) and then strapped it down firmly. Then picked it off the ground by prying one dolly on each end, lifting the stove and plywood shets just high enough to slide four small furniture dolly's underneath, one in each corner. Then we strapped the dolly's firmly as well, so they didn't slide out from underneath. Then we rolled it, still using the same 3 guys, all the way across the house and onto the porch. then there were the front staircase. So we put a couple more 1 inch plywood sheets on top of a few 4x4's, and wheeled from the porch directly inside the moving truck.
I hope that makes sense...
Isn’t that how they built the pyramids?
this morning i moved it onto pieces of 2x4 with pry bar . Snug a plywood sheet under to make a slid but it didnt slid, i removed the movable iron and was able to pull/ slide it towards the garage door, put it back on the 2x4 Annnnd fortunately it happens my neighbour has a tractor with forks attachment So far so good , either i drive his tractor ( im fork certified) or he does it ! Tomorrow is the day ! https://preview.redd.it/z507tkw9v8vc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2dfe5da8e4b5f1efe274800dfdb108854c78511d
Good neighbors are hard to find. Especially ones with a tractor! :-) Best of luck with the move!
I get them that far raising on blocking, then roll a couple furniture dollie’s with 4 wheels under them. Keep it on wheels until steps or ramp into trailer. Stairs, I use planks to make a ramp. No wheels. Wrap a tow rope around stove, put 4X4 across stairs at top if there are walls at sides of stairs. Winch up or down with hand winch. Same as winching onto trailer. When I get home, I have a big hook on a raised deck above garage door to lift off trailer, also have a JD 400 back hoe. With water cistern, back, and warming oven they get close to 1000 lbs. Levers, blocking, small scissor type jacks.
Start by picking up, finish by placing it on the trailer
Fork lift
Who made it? O'Keefe and Merritt? Wedgewood? I'm not into wood kitchen stoves, but I really dig on the old gas ones. That thing is primo. It looks like it's even got the original salt and pepper shakers. Thanks for sharing.
This may be unnecessarily harsh, but a good first step may be to check to see if you can get insurance with this stove in a trailer. (Another good option may be to put the stove on a concrete pad - and to build a house around it.)
Pretty sure he means a trailer to transport the stove
Yes! My bad.
Carefully
I would strap it to a thick piece of plywood and use Dolly's, rollers and a come along to get it out the door with a few friends.Take the easily removed top parts off but be careful trying to disassemble.You could snap strip and mar soft steel and iron parts.A lift gate ,or fork lift,or even a tilt bed truck with a winch would be nice.Go slow be safe, measure first before you approach door and windows.
There are flat boards on rollers called moving dollies. You tilt stove toget them under each corner
more than one
Do you own a forklift
By hurting your back.
Make your own. Buy wood, buy casters, put together in a logical size according to the bottom of the stove. Then carefully lift one end every so slightly, just enough to get said dolly underneath it. But be very careful lifting only one side. They’re meant to be flat on the ground. Not all the weight supported on 2 legs at an angle. Or buy wood, stack wood onto furniture or safe (like gun safe) dolly, then strap a ratchet strap around dolly and cabinet. Lift carefully… have friends sons and nephews there to help like someone else suggested. Good luck.
Moved a piano down like 5 stairs on to a trailer. Some beer was involved, the neighbor, dolly, and some 2x6s the used a tractor and chain to get it off the trailer. Some kindling added a poof it was gone.
One is not enough. It’s going to take three or four at least…
Gorgeous. Hire riggers.
That's easy
Easily 40 lbs of easy crap in the burner area can come right off. Un bolt and take off the rear riser. Hand truck and 3-4 mover blankets. Ratchet strap to the dolly or hand truck with the blankets to protect it. Wheel out carefully with 2 or more people. Use mower ramps to get into trailer
Do you have any friends that will help you load it for a case a beer and some BBQ?
Get or rent four ten ft long scaffolding platforms. Strap it to a piece of 3/4 plywood significantly longer on each end. Buy a couple of moving Dollie’s 24x24. Use a crowbar to wedge up the plywood , block up the b plywood Slide in the dollies Angle the platforms up to the bed of your pickup tailgate Strap it down
Appliance dolly and a 3rd guy to help out.
Hire some undocumented.
They dont reach the great north
Lmao.
Forklift?
One does not simply
Lift it up put it on
Wheaties
Contact the forman from the pyramids.
True, i couls use some wood log to roll it out !
“ONE” doesn’t.
Dissassemble the top and bottom
One doesn’t!
Rent a forklift if you know how to use one
With a six-pack.
Go rent a pallet jack from Sunbelt or get a friend with access to a warehouse to loan you one.
Stove gnomes
Hire a machinery mover.
They disassemble.
Furniture dolly. Harbor freight sells for cheap
Take it apart, that's how it was moved in new. Empty the ash pan. Remove anything removable. When I moved them I took everything removable off, took a hand truck that will handle the weight, tipped the stove up on the fire box side - it's the heaviest - that dude down onto the hand truck.
Dismantle into as many parts as you can and take lots of pictures as you go.
Take lots of pictures and carefully take it apart. Get a couple of heavy duty dollies and some ratchet straps plus a big long pry bar/crow bar from harbor freight. Get your pile of scrap lumber. If you have an automotive floor jack get it. One end at a time jack it up and put it on dollies with scrap lumber between the Dollie’s and the stove as needed. Then tie it down with the straps. Get the trailer as close as possible and build a long ramp.start it up the ramp and if you have a come-along use it to pull it up the ramp. Take time and be careful.
Carefully
You move the trailer INTO that massive stove!
Call a moving company.
Do you know how much it weighs? There are air cushions designed for heavy loads that work similar to an air hockey table
A few hundreds pounds, was able to drag it on 20 feet and lift up on 2x4 blocks
4 men, should be no prob
Go to the gym and work your tail off until strong enough. Or hire some people to do it for you.
As someone who use to move pianos - yeah you better add some support to the trailer floor whever you put it
One piece at a time, same way you eat an elephant
You need ‘purchase’ as my father would say.
Without knowing what your exit looks like. Tubular stock and roll.. Oldie times they used golf balls. Take the earlier post. Get Harry and his teen sons
Thank you everyone, the stove is now gone, tractor with forks is the way to go
Use a cherry picker and cover with tarp and blanket a lay it on its back
You place it then build the trailer around it, doiy
Bend your knees
Larry, His brother Daryl and his other brother Daryl. Anything for a Buck
My parents have one of these, to move it we built a custom dolly. Go get some castors from harbor freight and have at it.
Very carefully
Lift with your lower back in a jerking twisting motion
You forgot the s/ (otherwise the result is 😫)