This is a device that I think I have been the first to use to lift pianos. The is a construction wall jack or pump jack used to raise prefab walls into place. Usually two are used to raise a wall. The jack climbs a 2 x 4 by pumping the big handled. The two small white handles are used to ease the piano down a little at a time in a ratcheting manner. I use this mainly on very heavy pianos like full uprights and old players and any piano in tight quarters where I don't have room to pry it up with a hand truck. I used it last week on one of the heaviest old uprights I have run across. It was a Heintzman- monstrously heavy. I jacked up one end 6 inches and put a 6 x 6 under one end. I went to the other end and did the same and put a dolly under the piano. No sweat. No hernia. One caution here: Do have another person on the other end to keep the piano from rolling or sliding away as you jack it up. This can happen when you get one end higher than the other. DAMHIK. Doug Gregg Classic Piano Doc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: wall jack005.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 96049 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120201/c13e3498/attachment-0003.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: wall jack006.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 79801 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120201/c13e3498/attachment-0004.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: wall jack001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 130044 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120201/c13e3498/attachment-0005.jpg>
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