Well pretty much this is what's going on. I am going to move across town to a house vs. the duplex I am at right now. I have an 80 gallon Ingersoll Rand 2 stage air compressor. It was a bitch to unload it from the truck. Now I am scratching my head trying to figure out the best way to load it into the truck, and move it, keeping it upright. Only lifting tools I have is a floor jack and my engine hoist..Any creative ideas out there from people that might have had to do the same thing?
How about a refrigerator dolly, you know the ones with the built in straps and the little tank treads on the back for going up stairs? Put two of the compressor's feet on the dolly, strap that sucker in and go.
Pick it up and set it in the back of the truck with the cherrypicker and tie it down with some decent ratchet tie down straps.
Try to get or make a small shipping pallet. Bolt it to the pallet. You can now use an appliance hand truck or even a regular heavyduty hand truck, and secure it to the hand truck, ramp it up into the truck and secure with rachet straps. Reverse procedure at the house! Good luck, and get someone to help you!
Make a ramp from a couple of long 2x8's and have a buddy help roll it into your truck. Aside from that, you can rent a small Penske box truck that comes with an electric lift gate. I used one to bring home a car body recently and the weekday rate was really cheap.
tow truck pro. movers pay and be done with it can't do everything yourself save money on something else if it helps small dia pipe will work as rollers lay a half dozen under some 6 foot long wood runner skids on the feet and3- 4 guys walk it accross town heck it will make the evening news we moved a 10x10 storage shed this way two miles
49RatFink has the right idea if you just have to do it yourself for no money. Remove the pump and motor with the aid of your engine-hoist. Move the motor and pump separate from the tank. Then you can lay the tank down without oil in the pump getting into where you don't want it.
That's what I did. Mine is an 80 gallon upright, with an old (ie, heavy)kellogg 2-stage head and an equally heavy duty 364T frame 240 volt 5HP motor. I took the motor and the head off with my engine hoist, then was able to handle the tank by myself on a 2-wheeled cart. No way would I try to even lean that thing over with fewer than 2 GOOD helpers. It hugely top heavy, the head and motor probably go near 300 LBS.
What you need is an air compressor installer to move it. Maybe you know of one. Hell he might even drive through davis daily.........LOL. Man just call me and we can get it done you should know better by now.
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I'd be willing to bet you need an oil change anyway....and 30wt aint gonna break the bank. Drain oil, back pickup to edge of compressor, you and buddy lay it at an angle on the gate and both of ya manhandle it in the back whilst transitioning from angle to flat. get it out the same way and refill with oil.... I've moved 2 60's and 1 80 this way and it's worked fine...leverage is your friend.
Drain the oil. Use some straps and pick it up so it is laying sideways. Back your truck in while its still on the picker, Easier than bringing the picker to the truck. Lower it into the truck still laying on its side and tie it off and your done. Just do this in reverse order when you get it to the new place. I weigh 150# and do this kind of moving euipment all by myself. Just take your time and you will be fine.
I bet I have that same compressor. Took four of us to unload it and it was bolted to a skid. Worked the skid to the end of the tailgate and leaned it way over to the ground, pulled truck up then uprighted compressor. I'm sure you could reverse that to get it in. If you added skis of sorts to the skid you could probably do it even easier.
Maybe a couple of pic's would help get better advice. If it is so darn heavy break it down by removing the motor and the compressor items.
I had to move mine (80 gallon IR), from the bottom of my long, windy, and inclined driveway (where the delivery truck dropped it off while I wasn't home, ugh), up to my garage. I removed the compressor, and tied the storage tank to my snow plow! Lifted the plow and drove it up the driveway to the garage. Re-assembled the compressor, and voila, done. Having a truck with a plow certainly came in handy that day.
When I bought mine they put it upright in my truck with a forklift. When I got home I backed into the garage, put a comealong on the ceiling, hoisted it up, and drove out from under it. Worked great.
just got my 80 gal upright brought down from Reno. Guy had it strapped to a dolly and he just leaned it in and stood it up to load, we did the reverse to unload. I will be moving soon and plan to just strap to my dolly and roll her up the ramp into the moving van. But then again I may just pay someone to move the SOB. .
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