[sudo-discuss] [biocurious] Pickup failure - Assistance requested

[Derek Jacoby]

Actually, looking at the link yours is much smaller than mine, so I'm sure
the smaller lift table with people stabilizing would work fine

http://m.harborfreight.com/500-lb-capacity-hydraulic-table-cart-60730-10041.html?utm_referrer=direct%2Fnot%20provided

Derek
On Sep 12, 2014 2:22 AM, "Derek Jacoby" <derekja at gmail.com> wrote:

> They are indeed monsters. When I bought the BSCs to bring up to Makerspace
> in victoria I looked pretty hard for a cheap or free way to move them
> myself. In the end I hired Corovan to do so. They had a nice device that
> looked like an engine hoist that would have let them lift it easily to put
> it on dollies. Except their nice device wouldn't fit in the elevator. So I
> ran off to harbor freight and bought a lift table which we were able to put
> under the BSC and with some blocks of wood for extra height lift up off its
> base then lower it onto dollies on each side of the lift table. The weight
> somewhat exceeded the 800 pound capacity of the lift table I got but with a
> person at each corner to help lift and stabilize it worked OK. Doing it
> again I would get the larger lift table for ~$250 rather than the 800 pound
> one that cost about $150.
>
> Feel free to give me a shout at 250-220-0467 if you want more details.
>
> Thx,
>
> Derek
> On Sep 11, 2014 10:44 PM, "Marc Juul" <juul at labitat.dk> wrote:
>
>> Today Counter Culture Labs failed to pick up our new biosafety cabinet.
>>
>> We need someone or some device that can move a large 680 pound 6 foot
>> wide, top heavy cabinet from its stand at about waist height, down to a
>> couple of ground-level dollies so we can wheel it through a normal-sized
>> doorway.
>>
>> Can you help?
>>
>> This is in redwood city. If we can get it onto dollies, we can move it
>> from there.
>>
>> I have no experience with this sort of thing. We showed up with five
>> people and even with one of the employees at the location helping we didn't
>> feel comfortable even trying it, as it could easily result in serious
>> injury.
>>
>> We put down half of the $500 price as a deposit, unscrewed the removable
>> components and took them with us. We'd like to try to pick it up within the
>> next week.
>>
>> It is the NU-425-600 model from this page:
>>
>>
>> http://www.nuaire.com/products/labgard-es-energy-saver-nu-425-class-ii-type-a2-biosafety-
>> cabinet.html
>>
>> Dimension without base stand: 77 ⅝ x 32 ⅞ x 63 inches
>>
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