Lobster wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
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.

Presumably this is just supposition though?


Well I wasn't actually there at the time :-)


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