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[gueuzeman]

These are good for about 500-600 lbs. will go 12-20 feet high. Widely available.


gueuze

[Scottish Tile and Stone]

LMAO @ gueuze

[Kilauea]

Im curious to see how youre gonna handle those alcoves,Jack.Dont forget to take some snapshots!

Gueuze,question:what kind of sealer do did you use on your chairails?I seen your picture frame(nice job!) a couple a days ago and this is what we did yesterday...small kine progress...

[gueuzeman]

L.T.- for tumbled stone I'm using Aqua mix color enhance sealer. Solvent based.

Polished stone Miracle 511- solvent based. Grout only- Stone Tech grout sealer- waterbased.

looking good!

gueuze

[Hamilton]

Jeremy,looks like that tool is designed for slab. I really like the lift table and
have been looking at some different makers off and on today. Thanx gueuze.

[Trask]

Jack the slab lifter like the blue ones won't work..we have 'em and they won't go up very high. But what about one of those drywall lifters for overhead. I know they can be rented..and so what if they are only rated for a couple hundred pounds..everythings over enguneerd these days

I didn't see the thingy at the top of this page..that'd prolly work.

[Deckert]

I thought of using a pully, but there is an over
hang of a few feet around the perimeter of the ceiling. Any ideas?

What if you dropped a beam/glue lam across that opening in the ceiling. Attach your pully or come-along to that. Then only use your pully rig to get the piece up as high as you want it.

Before you do this, frame up a wooden block the height you want your piece to sit. Make it beefy, and make it long enough that it reaches from the edge of your finished opening past the overhang at least the depth of your alcove piece.

Get the piece on that block, and then "walk it" into rough opening.

Kinda low tech, but it would work if you can't find a lift.

[Deckert]

ok, super-low-tech option.

Get your alcove piece standing up in front of your opening. Tilt to 1 side, slide in a piece of 3/4" ply. Tilt it the other way, and slip a piece in on the other side. Repeat that 64 times and your piece is 4' off the ground right in front of the opening. Use pieces of ply that are wide enough to be stable when stacked that high.

[gueuzeman]

Brannigan, it worked building the pyramids in Egypt, good call.


gueuze

[Trask]

Smart ideas guys

A landscaper on the jobsite lifted our pallets of tile onto the concrete porch on a job. Would a landscaper with a small bobcat be able to drive those into place for you?

olzo

[Davestone]

This is really weird.A safe was stolen outta house i was workin on years ago and it was a landscaper or scaperS did that one too.Also i know for a fact golfballs were how they built the great pyramids,it was Arnys' Army that did it.

[jim mclaughlin]

deckerts tilt method will work. Just have to be concerned with the stability of 3/4 ply stacked that high up.I have used this method several times with this type of weight just not that high.Low tech but time tested.

[K_Tile]

Build some stairs and lift it up one tread at time. Buy three precut stringers from Lowes and a few 2x10s and you will also have a working platform. Probably will cost you $30 in material

[jvcstone]

Jack, just looking at your pictures I think the rolling scaffolding will work out ok as you can always get a little "swing" on the lifting straps. One thing we do with columns of that sort is to epoxy a heavy duty eye bolt into the top (stainless if you can get them) Pick the column up by the hook, set it in place, and then cut the eye part off, using the remainder of the sticking up bolt as the dowel for the capital.
The othe pieces you should be able to grab ahold of ok, but remember that you can attach lifting dogs anywhere that will be hidden from view once it is all in place.

JVC