Moving a Quadrafire Isle Royale with a dolly

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bushman

bushman

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Dec 28, 2014
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Northern Michigan
In the next few days I am going to pick up an Isle Royale wood stove and have a few questions about moving it with a dolly. Having never owned an Isle Royale and only just looking at one enough to like what I saw there's few things that I am trying to work out in my mind enough to know what to bring on the pick up.

Planning on wheeling it around on dolly and it looks to me like the best place to handle it is the front side with the double doors, bricks and ash lip removed. Is the ash lip easily removed with hand tools? Does using the front of stove side sound OK? It seems the rear with the blower and shields would be too breakable.

My dolly has moved a Hearthstone Mansfield and its up to the job. Only way I see us picking this up into the back of my van it to wrap stove with a shipping blanket, using ratchet straps to secure some 2 x 4s vertically to the stove then lifting then sliding stove into van with 2 x 4s as skids.

Does all of his sound OK with the build of the Isle Royale?
 
Removing the firebrick is a no-brainer to lessen the weight. I have no idea about the rest.

When my Isle Royale has been moved (twice), two NFL linebacker-sized guys from the dealership picked it up and carried it down my hill(s) and into the house. If I had to do it myself, I would grab 3 other guys and gitterdone with promises of beer after the job is complete.
 
You may want to inquire with your local stove shop and see if they have a loaner stove dolly. Some are even stair climbers. Just a suggestion. Have more horse power available than you think you will need. That stove is a heavy bugger. The last stove I helped move was the mid-sized Enerzone. Just a couple of us brutes dead lifting it. I am not sure I recommend that method unless you KNOW your abilities.
 
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me and my buddy carried a vc resolute acclaim up the porch stairs into my house. it weighs 425 according to the manuf. lit. It was all we could do to move it, wont recommend that at all. its on a dolly now waiting for install.
 
When I had to move my Clyde to the basement I called around and found a moving company that did the job for $100.00 cash. Two guys picked it up with a strap and carried it down the stairs. Door and firebrick were removed prior to move.
 
Helped move a VC Defiant into a basement once. Luckily, it was still on the shipping pallet, so we nailed on some rails to make it slide, then lowered it down the garage stairs using a long rope tied to a skid loader. The rails let two guys go in front of it and keep the whole setup more or less level. As a bonus, it made great kindling for the first fire since it was already in the basement.
 
bushman said:
In the next few days I am going to pick up an Isle Royale wood stove and have a few questions about moving it with a dolly. Having never owned an Isle Royale and only just looking at one enough to like what I saw there's few things that I am trying to work out in my mind enough to know what to bring on the pick up.

Planning on wheeling it around on dolly and it looks to me like the best place to handle it is the front side with the double doors, bricks and ash lip removed. Is the ash lip easily removed with hand tools? Does using the front of stove side sound OK? It seems the rear with the blower and shields would be too breakable.

My dolly has moved a Hearthstone Mansfield and its up to the job. Only way I see us picking this up into the back of my van it to wrap stove with a shipping blanket, using ratchet straps to secure some 2 x 4s vertically to the stove then lifting then sliding stove into van with 2 x 4s as skids.

Does all of his sound OK with the build of the Isle Royale?
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First, let me warn you that the legs aren't secure enough to move the stove by sliding. I tried to slide my IR across a concrete floor but the side force from friction made the legs wobble. I looked underneath and they are bolted to a piece of sheetmetal that bends when too much side pressure is applied to the legs. Only way to slide it without bending is to PULL the stove, never PUSH it.

Here's how I got mine home. I cut a piece of 3/4" plywood (1/2" not strong enough) to fit under the 4 legs and screwed them to it through the slots in the legs. This allowed me and the seller to slide the stove up a 8' ramp (made of 2x4s) without the legs bending from the side pressure. I didn't have a dolly. At home I had no helper to unload. I drove the truck onto my patio and slid it down the ramp by myself onto a collapsed cardboard box. The cardboard box was slippery enough to drag/push the stove to the corner installation location. I unscrewed the legs from the plywood and slid into position, again by lifting/pulling. Once I had in position I got down and pulled on each leg outward away from center of stove to straighten any bending caused by sliding.
 
bushman said:
In the next few days I am going to pick up an Isle Royale wood stove and have a few questions about moving it with a dolly. Having never owned an Isle Royale and only just looking at one enough to like what I saw there's few things that I am trying to work out in my mind enough to know what to bring on the pick up.

Planning on wheeling it around on dolly and it looks to me like the best place to handle it is the front side with the double doors, bricks and ash lip removed. Is the ash lip easily removed with hand tools? Does using the front of stove side sound OK? It seems the rear with the blower and shields would be too breakable.

My dolly has moved a Hearthstone Mansfield and its up to the job. Only way I see us picking this up into the back of my van it to wrap stove with a shipping blanket, using ratchet straps to secure some 2 x 4s vertically to the stove then lifting then sliding stove into van with 2 x 4s as skids.

Does all of his sound OK with the build of the Isle Royale?
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Sounds like a plan. This is essentially how I moved in our very heavy Alderlea T6.
 
02-13-2015, Got up at 4:30 this morning and was on road by 6:30 starting a 2 hour drive to Midland,MI to get my long sought after Isle Royale. Brought the tools of the trade dolly, ropes, 2x4s, shipping blankets and a strong Polish back.

Had the stove back to my house at 12:30pm and kind of took it easy on the way back because the stove was resting on the front legs on the dolly in my wife's Sienna van and it was Friday the 13th and I don't fool on that day.

Started into cleaning and evaluating condition of the stove and was stoked to see if anything the stove was run cool judging by the copious amount of creosote in it. I opted to put all new gaskets in it and while doing so decided that after scraping the totally sensible red silicone sealant factory used as gasket cement to use old fashioned Rutland fiberglass cement and to also spray the doors with some brown HiTemp paint that was leftover from an old Olsberger Hutte Coal Stove.

02-14-2015, I have been a Man on A Mission and have totally cleaned and re gasketed the 2006 Isle Royale and not to let this one slide but, noticed the two special bricks with holes in them were cracked in half and used some Rutland cement and slathered those bricks together last night.

I have the Isle Royale up and running and my milk toast Lopi Liberty is in my garage cooling off and in reserve, just in case the Quad can't cut the mustard.

Hopefully my wife can dig this uh, Valentine's day present. The raised hearth is where it came from. The big overkill heatshield is my set up.

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Nice. How's it heating so far?
 
About an hour or so into it. Firebox is not as big as the Liberty but, if it burns better well then that's OK. So good so far. Dog likes it, that's a good sign. Wife's not to far away, great sign.
 
Curious as to why you switched the liberty for the isle royale?
 
Ohh, your a Liberty guy. I was shopping for stoves about 7 years back, or so and really liked the Isle Royale but, bought an Elm instead. Had some insurance issues with my sister agent and in a trade acquired a new Liberty and ran that for a few years. It's been good to me but, It's got a few things that I'm not so happy with and I never was smitten with the steel box style. Came across a awesome deal on Craigslist on the Isle Royale and changed stoves out in record time today.

I'm not letting the Liberty go until the Isle Royale earns its place on my Hearth. I am not scared to change stoves out, in fact sometimes do it just out of exploratory curiosity. My wife got over this years ago and it's a fun hobby for me. Doing this on the coldest day of the year so far was just icing on the cake for me and for the tales to be told someday.
 
bushman said:
Ohh, your a Liberty guy
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Yes and no. Yes I have a liberty but would love to try every brand and model of stove for at least one winter but unless I win the lottery that's not going to happen. Do you plan on or like using the top loading or is it easier to use the front doors?
 
I am just a humble AT&T Technician and prowl Craigslist while on the hunt. This stove came from a dissatisfied owner who had a lousy chimney setup and they wanted this stove gone. It needed some elbow grease but, she came out real nice, I think.

My Liberty did the job and was simple, robust and just a good honest stove that heated my big ranch house with ANY wood I could scrounge up. I had a lot of ash built up on top of my baffle but, that was on me. I should have cleaned that out every season. My stove pipe was too tight to slide off when cleaning the chimney and it bit me early this burn season.

The top load is nice to have as an option. Wish it had a single door. The pivoting baffle is neat and I can vacuum the chimney leavings with great leisure.
 
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