Moving a stone slab up stairs

[mangocrazy]

I moved 31 paving slabs at 72kg each on my own. I’m 74 and only weigh 70kg but loaded my van, unloaded it and moved them through the house. So two. People will move your slab easily.

Thanks, that's encouraging to hear.

 

[Alan Reynolds]

Thanks, that's encouraging to hear.

My next task, should I choose to accept it is to get the 84kg wood botherers bandsaw out of the back of my van and into my new shed. Jock strap, cricket box and weightlifters belt might be needed on this one. Not a lot of hand grip on it. The four new casters I found in the garage will have life as a trolley for it as I know my limits. I think!

 

[mangocrazy]

I've used a wheel barrow successfully to move most of a very heavy Startrite Mercury pillar drill from my van to the shed. The weight of that would have been similar to your bandsaw and I needed to enlist the services of my wife to lift it onto the (reinforced) work bench. Don't get too brave...

Best of luck.

 

[gaz1]

Bit of an odd one, this. My house in Sheffield has a cellar (one of the reasons I bought the house) and in the cellar there is a stone table/slab standing on two rows of bricks. The slab measures 1.25 m x 0.8m x 50mm and by my calculations weighs around 100kg. At some point in the not too distant future I want to move that out of the cellar and into the garden and use it as a garden table. It will be mounted on brickwork which will in turn be built on a concrete slab.

My question is, will two people be able to manhandle the slab up the cellar stairs, through the kitchen and out into the garden? I'm not planning on doing it myself, but would ideally find a couple of strong blokes (bodybuilders?) to do it for me. For money, obviously. There is sufficient room to get the slab out, but it's still fairly cramped and the cellar steps are quite steep.

further advice to say if your paying 2 burly lads

build up the legs and when its up and out and into the garden get them to fit it straight onto the legs with cement and level it

then your only paying for a full days work for both of them it will be worth it in doing so

my other advice is build both legs into elongated u shapes as it will support better

 

[MattF]

further advice to say if your paying 2 burly lads

They don't need to be burly, just strong. Appearance is no indicator of strength.

 

[mangocrazy]

further advice to say if your paying 2 burly lads

build up the legs and when its up and out and into the garden get them to fit it straight onto the legs with cement and level it

then your only paying for a full days work for both of them it will be worth it in doing so

my other advice is build both legs into elongated u shapes as it will support better

That was broadly the plan. I intend to have the support for the table already built and mortar dry-mixed ready to add water and use.

I was actually intending to build a brick rectangle on top of a concrete slab to support the stone slab. The size of the rectangle would be approx 80cm x 40cm.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I'm not interested in selling it, just moving it.

I don't think he was serious.....

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Have we seen pics of this proposed job?

 

[mangocrazy]

Have we seen pics of this proposed job?

No, but it can be arranged...

 

[rtcosic]

No, but it can be arranged...

Is this exercise related to @Parm neighbour's pizza oven?

 

[MattF]

Is this exercise related to @Parm neighbour's pizza oven?

Did that ever get shifted?

 

[gaz1]

That was broadly the plan. I intend to have the support for the table already built and mortar dry-mixed ready to add water and use.

I was actually intending to build a brick rectangle on top of a concrete slab to support the stone slab. The size of the rectangle would be approx 80cm x 40cm.

no just make 2 legs with a brick out is ample enough both sides

all thats needed is a shallow u shape to make it stable

 

[mangocrazy]

You've forced me to show the world the absolute clutter I work in (the cellar is also a workshop). First pic, the stone slab hiding under a layer of plastic DPC, then a prece of MDF strengthened by laths, then a selection of (largely motorcycle-related) clutter.

Next is the corner of the table, more clutter lining the walls and the start of the steps incorporating a 90 degree turn (which adds to the fun).

Lastly, the view up the stairs.

I hasten to add that all the clutter will be removed before any strong blokes start lifting and shifting. That's a given.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Certainly looks do-able. Up on end to negotiate the turn, walk it round, then ropes front & back and......HEAVE!!!

Good luck

 

[Woody.v8]

You need some expert help

 

[skotl]

Did that ever get shifted?

It did

https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/how-to-move-1-8ton-pizza-oven-extra-rant-about-sellers-deliveries.82379/post-1247903

 

[brightspark]

Certainly looks do-able. Up on end to negotiate the turn, walk it round, then ropes front & back and......HEAVE!!!

Good luck

with a scaffie plank on the steps to slide it up

 

[Richard T]

The two factors would be "can you lift it" and "what happens if you drop it".
Lifting it is, as people have said, not too hard, but the consequences of it slipping half-way up could be very unpleasant.
I would tie some ropes around it very tightly to create some handles, and lead a long rope from this to the top of the stairs where a third person is standing with the rope taken in a turn around something solid, taking in the slack as it's carried up. Almost like a ratchet so it can't slip back down.
Make sure you know where they're going to go, or where they can put it down, when they get to the top !

 

[James1979]

No one has mentioned it but do not be below it. Ever.

At the sides or in front fine. May be a bit friendly with two donks in that space but that’s preferable to getting squashed. If the top bloke slips the bottom bloke may not be able to hold it. Plan for the ‘what if’

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Too much talk and not enough action.

@mangocrazy Are you assembling the troops?