My wife just bought me a fantastic fountain for outside - it's concrete and in seven different sections - each section of course getting considerably lighter as it gets to the top.
Here's my delimia - we had to pick it up in the truck and I could load everything myself except the largest basin. The employees at the concrete place helped load that section. Now that I'm home, I have no way to get it off the ground!!!
My wife is small and my son is too small to do much good at this point. We just moved here so we have no friends, all my close neighbors are elderly women who live alone and the people at the concrete business wouldn't deliver.
Now I have a 200.00 fountain that I can't use because I can't get it set up (grrrrrr!)
Any suggestions on how one tiny man can lift this by himself - just about two feet off the ground?
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!
2007-04-02 11:26:15 · 4 answers · asked by curious in IL 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
If you can't find an Egyptian to help, start thinking like one. Assemble the basics, 2x4s to lay on the grass, pipe to lay on the 2x4s and plywood (or a heavy pallet) on top of the pipe. Nudge, pry and lift your fountain onto the plywood and roll baby roll. I've learned through experience that a few Egyptian curse words help me through the rough spots. RScott
2007-04-02 13:09:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lean one side up & put something under it to hold the weight of that side while you lift the other. Let your wife or son put the supports under it.
If it is still on the truck then just put a board on each side of it & slide it into place.
You can move it around by prying it with a board for leverage.
You could also go to a auto parts store & buy a cherry picker to hoist it up(not to sound condesending but a cherry picker is a engine hoist).
2007-04-02 18:47:16 · answer #2 · answered by kingmt01 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Contact the store you brought it from, I think one of their stock persons would drive out and give you a hand for a few bucks or put an ad in your local grocery store asking for help or at your church. I'm sure someone would like to earn 10 - 20 bucks for an hours work.
2007-04-02 19:25:50 · answer #3 · answered by Brokn 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Can it be dragged? Can you hoist it onto something, even just a corner, and drag it to the appropriate spot?
Or call the store and offer to pay the guys who helped load it to get it to the appropriate spot.
Good lesson learned.
2007-04-02 18:40:45 · answer #4 · answered by fluffernut 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋