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Hi,

We are having work done on our house and it involves a big and heavy
steel beam to support most of the back of the house. It is probably
about 1000kg and 7m long (300mm x 300mm).

The builder and I are trying to figure out the best/ easiest/ most
cost effective way of getting the beam from the lorry at the front of
the house to the back of the house then up onto the steel columns that
will be supporting it. The beam will be at first floor level (i.e.
approx 2.5m from the ground).

Any thoughts on how to resolve this would be gratefully appreciated.

thanks in advance for your help.

Lee.

For lateral movement along the ground, I'd use rollers - possibly a
scaffold pole cut into 2 foot lengths or so. If there is any incline up
or down, pull or lower it using a turfer and suitable ground anchor(s).

For the lift, a block and tackle on a frame of scaffolding - any decent
high altitude tubular technician (scaffolder!) would probably be able to
erect such a frame for the given weight.

Bear in mind that if you dropped a beam of that weight even 1cm onto a
finger/toe etc it would probably crush it, safety needs to be forefront
in your mind during this.

If you want to spend a bit of money, HSS have 'lift and shift' centres
with specialist lifting gear, including demountable gantries, beam
rollers, the various strops, ropes, block and tackle you might need etc.

www.hss.co.uk

Look under lifting and handling.

Hth
Someone