<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>Jim,<br /> You've probably figured this out already, but heavy-duty ratchet straps ( at least 1,500 lbs test each, for peace of mind) attached to the plate in a 3-point configuration allow you to delicately adjust level for lifting from the piano (still, though, with protective cardboard or such arond the edges) or any other moving situation. (Why anyone would continue to use old-fashionecd buckle straps is beyond me, but I still see this.) I'm too a one-man operation, so have had to devise ways to tip pianos and get plates out, and etc., solo.</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_"> <div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif:font-size:10pt"> <br /> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"> <font size="2" face="Tahoma"> <hr size="1"> <b> <span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span> </b> tnrwim@aol.com <tnrwim@aol.com>; <br> <b> <span style="font-weight:bold:">To:</span> </b> pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>; <br> <b> <span style="font-weight:bold:">Subject:</span> </b> Re: [pianotech] plate weights <br> <b> <span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span> </b> Thu, Aug 16, 2012 12:40:06 AM <br> </font> <br> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">Plates weigh about half as much as the pianos. Weights for all the Steinways  are on the web or on that nifty chart we all should have<BR><BR>Wim<BR><BR>Sent from my iPhone<BR><BR>On Aug 15, 2012, at 5:20 PM, Jim Ialeggio <<a ymailto="mailto:jim@grandpianosolutions.com" href="javascript:return">jim@grandpianosolutions.com</a>> wrote:<BR><BR>> What are the approx weights of these plates<BR>> <BR>> S&S D, B, L  what's the heaviest one could expect.<BR>> <BR>> Trying to come up with winches and booms to get plates onto my trailer and unloaded at my auto body sub, with me being tutti sole at the shop.  Thinking about permanently mounting a small crane on the trailer <a href="http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200381756_200381756" target=_blank >http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200381756_200381756</a>. This one's rated at 1000lbs with the boom retracted at 36" from pivot...mounted on the side of the trailer, I think this would work at that extension.  1000lbs at full 51 extension.<BR>> <BR>> Jim Ialeggio<BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> Jim Ialeggio    <BR>> <a ymailto="mailto:jim@grandpianosolutions.com" href="javascript:return">jim@grandpianosolutions.com</a><BR>> 978 425-9026<BR>> Shirley Center, MA<BR>> <BR></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div>