I wasn't able to take a bunch of photos during the move-in process. I had a friend with a backhoe come over, and we only had 3 people plus the backhoe operator to move a 1600 pound boiler....well, minus the weight of the doors and center bricks.
So, he has forks for the loader on his backhoe, so that's how we moved the boiler to the basement door.
The basement door is 1" wider then the boiler. So the control box had to come off of one side.
This is where the pictures stopped for now, because we all had to have hands on the boiler....no time for photos. We hooked a chain to the bucket on the backhoe, and to the lift point on the top of the boiler. Then we laid the boiler down on it's front (all doors removed), and put it on top of three 2" black iron pipes I have from cutting my old heating system out. I saved them when I did the scrap yard run just for this purpose. Then with the three of us guiding the boiler into the door, we put a split piece of wood form my pile between the bucket and the lift point on the boiler. Using the bucket, he pushed the boiler into the basement door opening. As the boiler rolled off of the pipes and into the basement door, we used the pipes as levers to straighten the boiler in the door opening, with about a half inch clearance on each side of the boiler.
Once the boiler was about 1/3 into the basement door, we hooked the chain back onto the bucket so that the furnace wouldn't just slide right down into the basement uncontrolled. We then used the pipes (all of which were freed from under the boiler now) to level the boiler into the door enough that it passed it's tipping point. Once it did, the weight was on the bucket chain, and he lowered it down using the bucket/chain.
We stood it upright by hand, and it barely cleared the ceiling joist by about a half inch (we took all of the components off of the top as well). Everything was measured in advance to make sure it would work (Pythagoras for the win). Once we had it upright, we had the backhoe operator tilt the boiler slightly using the chain, and put the pipes under the furnace. Then, using the Egyptian method, we used the 3 pipes to roll the boiler into place on the opposite side of the basement.
The only damage to the furnace was cosmetic to the sheet metal, where it had to pivot down the basement stairs.[/COLOR]
And it is now in place. The next challenge is getting all my heating pipe in before the heating season starts. 
I'm going from a single whole-house zone to 4 zones, from old iron pipe to new copper with zone circulators, so this is the fun part. Luckily I have a friend who does HVAC for a living, and he's going to help me get it in and looking neat...I'll be paying him though, he's having twins at the start of next month and he could use his time doing other side work...so I wouldn't feel right taking his time for free![/quote]
WireNut. Nice job getting that in there. I don't want to derail this thread. Do you have a thread about your install? I am wondering about things like your piping, your return water protection, your storage if any, series or parallel, etc. If you do not have a thread about your install, maybe you can create one and tell us about it. Or send me a PM. I am interested, being a Wood Gun owner. Thanks.
