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    We have loaders and a forklift here on the farm thankfully. I once bought a Macson horizontal mill cheap because it was to hard to move. A mate and I went down on a sat night with a tandem trailer, crowbar, pallet cart, blocks of wood and a turfor winch. We started with the crow bar till we could get the pallet cart under, then wheeled it behind the trailer and lifted and blocked until it was trailer height and then carefully inched it onto the trailer. They guy we bought it from watched us the whole time but didn't help a bit!! We have used the same setup several times. The engine hoist is also handy for lifting onto a trailer when buying things. the worst part is lifting it back on the ute or trailer. It often amazes me how often people think you can't shift things with a crow bar.

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    Chain hoist, chain lever block, pallet jack, mobile gantry and the tractor. Next on the wish list is definitely a forklift, especially now I have something big enough to drag it out of the mud when it gets stuck around here!!! its either dust or mud around here, not ideal for maintaining forward momentum for a fork once you get off the gravel.

    Good sturdy pipe can do wonders wrt moving heavy items around the floor. Outside off the conc, bigger diameter pipe.
    Frisky wife, happy life. ​Then I woke up. Oh well it was fun while it lasted.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Burner View Post
    It often amazes me how often people think you can't shift things with a crow bar.
    Yep.

    Give me a lever big enough and I shall move the world….. Archimedes
    Girl, I don't wanna know about your mild-mannered alter ego or anything like that." I mean, you tell me you're, uh, super-mega-ultra-lightning babe? That's all right with me. I'm good. I'm good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by simonl View Post
    Yep.

    Give me a lever big enough and I shall move the world….. Archimedes

    You sure Archimedes is a bloke, and not a women…..the lever is never big enough and we all think it is twice as big as it is….
    …..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands

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    Quote Originally Posted by DSEL74 View Post
    You sure Archimedes is a bloke, and not a women…..the lever is never big enough and we all think it is twice as big as it is….
    Ha Ha! I'm hearing you!

    Lucky my wife is not good with imperial.

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    I'm lucky enough to have an excavator... but my shed is too low to actually get stuff inside so its back to rolling it on pipes to get it inside.
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    Default Lifting and shifting.

    Got spoiled during my working life when I had a choice of excavators, cranes etc to move things, so when I retired I hung onto an old forklift with jib attachment, a cable excavator (former dragline) with 12.5m boom, and a 1 tonne electric hoist in the workshop. There is a small hydraulic crane on the Landcruiser that's OK for 600 kg or so, and a guy down the road with an 8 tonne Franna mobile, so moving things in is not a problem. Got to find a place to move some of it OUT to, before shop and yard resemble the scrap dealer's place. Can scarcely give scrap away here, as I am over 800 km from Darwin and 3000 km from Perth, so freight cost makes it worthless unless it's copper or aluminium. What to do with it all?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Combustor View Post
    GCan scarcely give scrap away here, as I am over 800 km from Darwin and 3000 km from Perth, so freight cost makes it worthless unless it's copper or aluminium. What to do with it all?
    Combustor.
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