I finally pulled the trigger on this project. I turned off the oil furnace at midnight Friday. Saturday I cut out the old furnace and winched it up the bulkhead steps into the back yard. Then I cleaned up the basement and got ready for the Tarm. Sunday I rented a UHaul trailer and picked it up.
It is possible for one man to unload and position one of these beasties. I backed to trailer up to the bulkhead, turned the truck around and put a strap around the boiler and hooked up the winch. Then I put another strap around the boiler and used a come a long to inch it off the pallet and down the bulkhead steps. It was many repetition's of: pull the boiler down 6 inches run up to the truck and play out another 6 inches of cable. It was harder getting it flat on the basement floor from the step than it was getting it off the trailer and down the steps. After that it was the tried an true "Stonehenge" method of putting it on planks on pieces of pipe and rolling it around the basement.
Then came the fun part of putting it together!! It is now sitting proudly in the basement a nice shiny blue!
It is now Monday night and I'm beat.
Next I get to finish the plumbing, not my favourite thing to do. Lots of head scratching and running back out to the plumbing store for parts I didn't know I needed.
The wife is asking when we will get hot water and heat back and I have to tell her it will be a few more days. At least the weather is warming up, Saturday and Sunday nights it was in the 20's.
Greg H
Tarm Excel 2000 (in progress)
1100 gallon storage
6 solar panels (next month?)
It is possible for one man to unload and position one of these beasties. I backed to trailer up to the bulkhead, turned the truck around and put a strap around the boiler and hooked up the winch. Then I put another strap around the boiler and used a come a long to inch it off the pallet and down the bulkhead steps. It was many repetition's of: pull the boiler down 6 inches run up to the truck and play out another 6 inches of cable. It was harder getting it flat on the basement floor from the step than it was getting it off the trailer and down the steps. After that it was the tried an true "Stonehenge" method of putting it on planks on pieces of pipe and rolling it around the basement.
Then came the fun part of putting it together!! It is now sitting proudly in the basement a nice shiny blue!
It is now Monday night and I'm beat.
Next I get to finish the plumbing, not my favourite thing to do. Lots of head scratching and running back out to the plumbing store for parts I didn't know I needed.
The wife is asking when we will get hot water and heat back and I have to tell her it will be a few more days. At least the weather is warming up, Saturday and Sunday nights it was in the 20's.
Greg H
Tarm Excel 2000 (in progress)
1100 gallon storage
6 solar panels (next month?)
you saved yourself some change in beer alone. i put my used 55 in my basement last month took 2 30 packs and almost a 1/4 of a pig. what are you using for storage?
