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1. 
   johnharkins | Jun 07, 2006 08:26am | #1

   two guys & a handtruck can handle a pretty heavy load

   how big is big?

   there may be quite a demand for that big radiator

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   DaveRicheson | Jun 07, 2006 12:56pm | #2

   First or second floor location?

   First floor; four wheel furniture dolly or two wheel hand truck for under 500 lbs.

   Second floor, same weight; 3/4 plywood underneath it and an old drop cloth covering it. Attack with maximum size  sledge-o-matic until arms/back fail, and/or radiator breaks into reasonable size pieces.

   Best option; call a local architectural salvage company and tell them it is free if they will get it out of the house.

    

   Dave

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   BossHog | Jun 07, 2006 02:47pm | #3

   Those things can be valuable to someone restoring an old house. It may be worth trying to get them out in one piece if possible.

   If nothing else, scrap iron prices are high enough that it's worth taking them somewhere to sell them rather than tossing them.

   A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel [Robert Frost]
4. 
   craigf | Jun 07, 2006 03:15pm | #4

   If you don't salvage it in one piece, try a carbide recip blade on the narrow joint between the sections. You can break the fins with a sledge, but the joints will stay together.

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   mbmmd | Jun 07, 2006 03:49pm | #5

   with a sawzall, cut the threaded rods that hold the sections together, then with a sledge and some "gentle" persuasion, separate the sections...one person can usually carry each section without difficulty

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   BryanSayer | Jun 07, 2006 05:20pm | #6

   Use a lever to slide one or two flat furniture dollies underneath, and then you can roll it anywhere.

   Or if you have to pick it up, get two heavy steel pipes about 32" long and four people. Slide the rods through near the ends and put one person on each side of each rod.

   This is also the way to steal a Harley-Davidson, though I'm sure none of you would do that...

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   McDesign | Jun 07, 2006 10:48pm | #8

   Man, I would never have thought of that bike thing.

   Forrest

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   davidmeiland | Jun 07, 2006 11:49pm | #10

   No need to carry a Harley at all, just get a furniture dolly under the front wheel and one under the back and roll it away.

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   BryanSayer | Jun 08, 2006 12:14am | #11

   So it was YOU that stole Bill's Harley???Actually, carrying it had to do with loading it in the van in the dead of night at a co-op of 50 people, and no one heard a thing. Bill was crushed.

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   IMERC | Jun 07, 2006 06:00pm | #7

   there's a ringing in my ears

   is it interfereing with the voices...

   Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming

   WOW!!! What a Ride!

   Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!

   
   

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   Edited 6/7/2006 11:00 am by IMERC

8. 
   Mike8964 | Jun 07, 2006 11:24pm | #9

   Cut the long rods that connect the whole thing and remove them. Then make a few wedges out of 2x scrap and tunk 'em in. Sections come apart real easy.

   Mike