wrote:
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.

Apparently the way they got the horizontal stones in place at Stonehenge was
to lever up one end, put a chock under, then lever up the other end, chock
under etc etc. When the horizontal stone was at the right height it was
slid sideways onto the uprights.


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