Hoisting pianos

[Joseph Alkana]

You could hire a house mover to do the job. Using cribbing and hydraulic 
jacks, that is, building up squares of timber will get almost anything well 
into the higher stratosphere. It's possible to do the job by yourself, 
although it would take a long time and require a lot of muscle to carry that 
much timber into the working space. I watched a program on the History (?) 
channel where house movers lifted a structure up and over a railroad trestle 
with this method. Fascinating.
Joseph Alkana RPT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Newell" <gnewell at ameritech.net>
To: <Pianotech at ptg.org>; <Caut at ptg.org>; "MPT" 
<Mpt-list at masterpianotechnicians.org>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 10:01 PM
Subject: Hoisting pianos


> Upcoming I have a job which requires hoisting a piano over 20 feet in the 
> air to clear a glass wall and put a grand into a choir loft. There is no 
> way the piano will go up the stairs. The donated piano I put a block in 
> needs to go up and the old grand comes down. A contractor member of the 
> church will install a hook in the ceiling for me. I was thinking of using 
> some sort of block and tackle arrangement but thought I would tap into the 
> collective expertise of the list first.
> Before it's suggested we thought of a fork lift but it is too heavy to 
> roll over the ceramic tile in the foyer and the marble tile in the church. 
> It's also too tall for the double front doors of the church even if they 
> were removed. A scissor lift is pretty much the same story as is other 
> similar machines.
> Thanks in advance for your responses.
>
> Greg Newell
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