Lifting Your Stove - Lifted my Keystone Today.

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leeave96

leeave96

Minister of Fire
Apr 22, 2010
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Western VA
I picked-up my Woostock Keystone yesterday. The trucking terminal set it on the back of my truck with a fork lift. When I got home, I backed my truck up to my utility trailer with tailgate. I set the trailer tailgate onto the truck tailgate. I strapped the stove to a heavy duty hand truck and with a bit of help from my brother and my boys, rolled the stove onto the trailer. I then backed the trailer to my basement door, lowered it's tail gate to the ground and rolled off the stove.

The reason I picked-up the stove with my truck was the tail gate on my trailer wouldn't allow a fork lift to get the stove on it. The reason I moved the stove to my trailer and then to the ground was that I didn't want to use ramps and the trailer's tailgate had a very small angle on it to the ground.

Next trick is going to be getting this stove out of the basement and into the living room - after I build a hearth pad (considering a raised pad too) and figuring out which chimney route to use for my particular install. I may design/build a custom cart to move the stove next.

How did you folks get your stove off the truck/trailer, into the house and on your hearth?

I was surprised how small this Keystone is - but it looks great and is HEAVY!!!!!!!!

We uncrated it for a look see and the stove is beautiful.

Thanks!
Bill
 
leeave96 said:
How did you folks get your stove off the truck/trailer, into the house and on your hearth?
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I cursed a lot. Seemed to work.
 
The stove shop loaded it into the bed of my pick up, when I got home my dad and I used my dirt bike ramps and slide the stove down them into the garage. We used a hand truck to get it into the house, we pulled all the bricks out of it which helped a bit.
 
I bribed friends and neighbors with beer. I probably also mentioned food, but when they arrived there was only beer. They aren't picky and were satisfied.

Matt
 
My 100 pound wife and I used those orange moving straps that you use with your arms and moved our 350 pound Napolean 1400 from the back deck to the pad. She struggled a little, but I told her a stove heats you more than one way.
 
We moved the FV off the truck simply by sliding it down a couple 2x6's. Getting it up the stairs to the hearth pad was a lot more work - 4 guys, dolly, and straps did the trick. Narrow stairwell didn't help a bit - we had to remove the railing. But following the suggestions by someone here we attached straps to the dolly and pulled it up that way and it worked out well. At any rate it is in place and that is what matters.

We kept it in the crate to protect it until it was in place and were very glad to have done so as there was some banging and rubbing that happened en-route. You may want to put that crate back in place before moving....
 
Used fork lift to put on low trailer and brought it home. Then I just slid it off the trailer (myself) onto a furniture dolly and put in carport until hearth was finished. When the hearth was ready, I got a couple of neighbors to help. I put a couple 2 x 10's to roll it up onto the porch. Then those same 2 x 10's to get it through the doorway. When we got it directly in front of the hearth, then we removed the crate. We'd had the stove for several months and this was the first look we had of it!

After un-crating, we removed the top lid, the firebox door and the firebricks before lifting onto the hearth (16" high). We used a couple of 4 x 4's under the stove and lifted it up and over. It all went very smooth this way but it helped that we had a couple of really strong guys to do the lifting.

You are so right about these things being heavy!

If I were to take one up a stairway I'd rent a cart from U-Haul. The one for moving a refrigerator. Then I'd probably have one man on the top and 2 below for going up the stairway. Strong men and slow work will get it done easily and safely.
 
I used my tractor with forks to set the stove on the deck by the front door. Then an appliance dolly to get it in the door and around the corner. I did take the fire brick out first and remove the door. It still took 2 of us to move the Liberty. That is one nice thing about having employee's, when you need extra help.
Doug
 
I gathered up sons and a couple friends, then made some stout ramps out of 2x10s and slid the stove (on pallet) down them. Once on the ground we ratchet-strapped the 600# beast to a heavy-duty hand truck and rolled it into position. The only lifting was getting it up a half-step and the entry threshold. It went pretty smoothly. Took about 30 minutes.
 
Our wood furnace weighs almost 600 pounds, so I had to use the tractor to remove it from the truck. I used a 3 point boom and took it to the basement doors. Disassembled the furnace took it down and put it back together. Its now a permanent part of the house. I refuse to remove it with what I went through.
 
I ran across someone the other day that boxed in their old stove using 2 x 4's to make it possible to carry, I had a picture but cant find it, I thouhgt it was pretty clever, course you need 4 guys to each grab an end but the weight would be evenly distributed.
 
I left my Jotul C550 in the crate after they loaded it in my Pickup w/ a fork lift. Strapped it to a HD hand truck and used 2x8 ramps with a figure 8 decender and a rope attached to the hand truck and the back of the pick up bed behind the cab to keep it going slow down the ramps. Ramps again up 3 steps onto my deck, then through the rear slider. Once in front of the hearth we uncrated it, took off the door and took out the bricks. 2 guys lifted one side and a third slid a short piece of 2x8 under it. Then did the same thing to the second side so it was sitting on the 2x8's. Then put another piece under the first side, back and forth and so-on until we had four pieces under each side and it was level with the hearth, about 10". Then put down a piece of sheet metal cut to the size of the fireplace floor and covering the hearth. Slid it onto the hearth in into the fireplace. Then cut the sheet metal off the hearth, so there is still a piece of sheet metal under the insert, but its covered and you can't see it. Three guys took about and hour in all. Worked real well. Stove is listed at 550lbs, but without the door, bricks and surround I bet it's closer to 450. Still a big hunk of iron though.
 
Slid the insert off the pickup using ramps, and used an appliance dolly to get it in the house. With only one son there to help, once it was in front of the hearth we rocked it one way and got wood under one side, then got wood under the other side. Slid a floor jack under it and lifted it to the height of the hearth and pushed it and the jack toward the hearth. Not bad for just two of us. No way two of us were going to lift it.
 
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