So I've not brewed in a while really, recently I've had a flurry, a wine, ESB and two drums of cider. This involves negotiating three stories at times with rather heavy drums/buckets. It seems that my rib has dislocated again and it's bloody sore.
I'm interested in a dolly that can make it up stairs, anyone got any ideas? Also platforms that can raise and lower.
Any tips would be much appreciated.
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Is running pipes between the floors out of the question?
It's a rental property.
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Quote from: Il Tubo on November 20, 2013, 05:16:24 PM
Can you keep all on the one floor?
Not practical really. Fermenting chamber is in the kitchen, but some stuff and the bath for cleaning is upstairs. Wines must go upstairs and boxes of bottles need to be brought up there for washing.
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Your bottle washing chores can be addressed with smarter cleaning regimes;
- Oxy clean all the hard stuff
- rinse
- sanitise with good stuff like star san
you can seal sanitised bottles with plastic beer bottle reseal caps, and wine bottles can be sealed when sterile with plastic reusable corks.
After that, get a brew buddy for the lifting. I dont think lifting systems are going to cut it if you dont have enough control of the space to keep it all on one floor.
There is a design of a "sack-truck" that has 3 wheels on each side of the axle that can rotate. This will allow it to "climb" stairs. You still have to pull it tho'
Here is a linky:
http://www.ajproducts.ie/trolleys-trucks/sack-trucks/4146299.wf
HTH!
Quote from: Will_D on November 20, 2013, 10:34:35 PM
There is a design of a "sack-truck" that has 3 wheels on each side of the axle that can rotate. This will allow it to "climb" stairs. You still have to pull it tho'
Here is a linky:
http://www.ajproducts.ie/trolleys-trucks/sack-trucks/4146299.wf
HTH!
That's the very thing Will.
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GB on zimmers anyone?.
Unfortunately I have one of them as well Eoin and regular stretches in the morning and last thing at night help, and I've been told to keep the snout out of the trough, as if!
I've also been on a kinetic lifting course and that showed me how not to carry heavy weights and muscles it pulls but didn't show me how to hump 60 drums of apple juice onto an off of a van.
I usually use 2 small fermenters as It is essier to carry 2 x 10l fermenters up stairs than 1 20l. A sliped disk isnt fun and I dont want another one.
The culprit was the Apple juice, I lugged it up to the spare room and then back down again. Asymmetrical lifting causes the rib to pop out. Last time it happened it was from carrying my son on my shoulders at the zoo. The doc might be able to click it back in.
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Jeez sorry to hear that but Eoin never let your son forget that and dine out on it when he is older ;). That stair truck looks really cool. 8)
Oooch, Sounds painful!
My first "proper" paying summer job (I say that lightly), long before Elfn'safety. my grumpy old boss spent 3 full days shouting at me about how I was lifting and carrying.
This was when bags of cement weighed something like 40kg, eventually he took the time to actually teach me lifting techniques and to use common sense.
Still have a good back :)
I had a bad back for a few years. I made a dolly and never really lifted anything. You can get wheels and castors in most hardware stores. Certainly worth it. I was only lifting 10l at a time max.
Quote from: Damo on November 21, 2013, 02:03:26 PM
This was when bags of cement weighed something like 40kg, eventually he took the time to actually teach me lifting techniques and to use common sense.
Cement bags in the "good old pre-ElfnSafety" were 1 cwt bags (1/20) of a ton 2240 lbs or just short of 51 Kgs
I used to unload the cement lorry before lunch time!
Quote from: Will_D on November 21, 2013, 02:55:37 PM
Quote from: Damo on November 21, 2013, 02:03:26 PM
This was when bags of cement weighed something like 40kg, eventually he took the time to actually teach me lifting techniques and to use common sense.
Cement bags in the "good old pre-ElfnSafety" were 1 cwt bags (1/20) of a ton 2240 lbs or just short of 51 Kgs
I used to unload the cement lorry before lunch time!
Sure that's nuttin I would unload them 50kg bags from a delivery lorry at site along with a few ton of blocks and mortar mix and fill a standard skip with 2 ton of rubble before elevenzes which usually was a breakfast roll and a cup of coffee :)
Can't say I miss lugging kegs up 2 flights of stairs in the B&C.
I used to get out o t'bed at t'bottom o't'lake........
I think my years of playing rugby and working as a waiter are coming back to haunt me, sure I used beat the All-blacks after breakfast and just before lunch......
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I remember this was all fields!
I used to carry one under each arm.
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Quote from: CH on November 21, 2013, 05:16:07 PM
I used to carry one under each arm.
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Would one breakfast roll not have done you?
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