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    Quote Originally Posted by hills View Post
    It's not a problem. Use a shovel or a pry bar to lift up one side of it. Slide a steel pipe underneath. Same on the other side.

    Now you have a pallet on rollers.


    2" schedule 80 plastic pipe works even better. I put a few pieces under a 480 lb generator and was amazed at how easily it moved. A ten year old girl could move it.

    Credits to the generator guy that told me about that one
    Thanks for that plastic pipe idea, years ago i found that wooden posts work better than Steel tubing on concrete, they absorb the high points of the concrete chip surface, spread the load out better & bigger diameter rolls better.
    But i hadnt thought of using plastic pipe. Water mains offcuts would work very well.



    I have shifted a lot of machinery, lathes etc over the years. But that would have saved a lot of that time. ( & a capstan lathe slipping off the 2 inch dia steel bar stock we used once. )
    A very early memory was watching Dad shift a small building ( large room/shed ) on rollers, by himself.

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