On Apr 4, 8:53*pm, " wrote:
On Apr 3, 8:14*pm, " wrote:

Have not loaded the wood stove on it, but have it all together and
have run the sled up and down unloaded. *Works well, but have decided
on rigging the rope for a 2:1 mechanical advantage. *Could use a
pulley, but why. *In this case friction is my friend. *So will
probably just use a quick link.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Dan

The Eagle has landed. *The wood stove is in the basement. *And the
sled worked pretty well. *I got the wood stove up from the garage to
the house using some ramps and a come a long. *And then onto a dolly
and rolled it to the door leading to the basement stairs. *I got the
sled up to the same level as the floor and then secured a 1 by 2 to
the tracks so the sled was secure. *Getting the stove on the sled took
a bunch of fiddling. *The stove is too wide to go thru the door
easily. *So the stove went through the door sideways. And the legs of
the stove are 27 inches apart *that way and the sled is only 24 inches
in that direction. *So had to lay some wood on top of the sled .

Since I had to remove the 1 by 2 chock I ran the rope from the 2 by 4
across the door thru the quick link attached to the sled and back
around the 2 by 4 and down to the stairs below the sled. *This gave me
really good control with only a little force needed to hold the sled
still. *So holding the rope with one hand, I removed the screws
holding the 1 by 2 to the tracks and slowly lowered the stove. *Very
slowly as there was a lot of stiction and vibration. *But it worked
pretty much as planned. *Maybe waxing the tracks and or the bottom of
the sled would get rid of the stiction.

It would have been a lot easier if I had made a dolly that was just
the size of *the top of the sled. *Then I could have easily rolled the
stove on the dolly onto the sled.
With of course a lip around three sides of the sled so the dolly would
not roll off the sled.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dan

Always good to hear that something works as planned, and you don't
have an incident punctuated by an expletive.