He-Man Tool Guy Moves Compressor
June 10th, 2009Skills and Plumber’s Crack Developing Nicely
I decided the only way to move my compressor was to break down and spend the necessary cash.
It amounted to almost three dollars.
I was thinking about the problem, and I realized I could use conduit as rollers if I could fasten a sheet of plywood to the feet of the compressor. I didn’t need a pallet. This thing only weighs around 550 pounds, or the weight of two fat ladies. It’s not heavy machinery. But I didn’t have a suitable piece of plywood, and I didn’t feel like cutting one. Then it occurred to me that it only needed to have a complete span of wood along one axis, so a couple of pieces of two-by-whatever would do. I could put one on each side of the compressor, put the conduit perpendicular to them, and go.
Here’s the process.
I bought this expensive hardware and added hi-tech fiber shields to prevent marring.
I screwed the boards to the compressor.
I shoved conduit under the boards.
I pushed and sweated. But not too much.
The pads seem to be coming apart. I didn’t know they had a finite lifespan.
Now I have to reposition the bench and the tool cabinet, run some conduit, and wait.
Two years ago I probably would have hired a crew to do this.
June 10th, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Gee, it’s just like the way the Israelites moved blocks for the construction of the Pyramids, back when they were in bondage…
June 10th, 2009 at 2:19 PM
What is that green dolly shaped thing in the first picture?
June 10th, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Nevermind – too top heavy
June 10th, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Try popping a top-heavy 550-pound object with feet twenty inches apart on a handtruck some day.
June 10th, 2009 at 3:46 PM
In the photo where the compressor is removed there look to be A/C lines there. What is that all about – I thought you bought a giant window unit?
June 10th, 2009 at 4:30 PM
In the deep and distant past a great genius ran that refrigerant hose through the garage, ruining a vent, in order to avoid drilling two holes.
June 10th, 2009 at 7:59 PM
I recognize that little brown bag. The helpful folks at the little hardware store in the Town Next Door to Nowhere put things in them for me all the time. Congrats on makin’ it work!
June 10th, 2009 at 11:04 PM
That looks a little like R2D2 on skis.
June 11th, 2009 at 1:47 AM
You had to tease me with just a bit of a view of Workmate there in that one image…