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Posted by Richard on May 23, 2006, 11:59 pm
I need to install a steel beam that is about 20' long. The beam is a
w10x30 so that make it 600 pounds. The beam will be supporting the
main floor (installed in the basement). How does one lift such a beam
in place? Obviously I cannot use a crane. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Richard
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Posted by Eigenvector on May 24, 2006, 12:11 am
>I need to install a steel beam that is about 20' long. The beam is a
> w10x30 so that make it 600 pounds. The beam will be supporting the
> main floor (installed in the basement). How does one lift such a beam
> in place? Obviously I cannot use a crane. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
Floor jacks, and lots of 4x4s, 6x6's, and the like.
A friend of mine had to jack up his house after the foundation collapsed on
one side. He used 5 floor jacks to do the job.
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Posted by ameijers on May 24, 2006, 12:15 am
> I need to install a steel beam that is about 20' long. The beam is a
> w10x30 so that make it 600 pounds. The beam will be supporting the
> main floor (installed in the basement). How does one lift such a beam
> in place? Obviously I cannot use a crane. Any suggestions?
>
Retrofitting an existing house? Building yourself with a beam you had
sitting around? More details, please. Why can't you use a crane?
This is why steel is often purchased delivered in place. If you are
retrofitting, you slide it in from the end through a hole punched in the
foundation, or if it is a pier house, opening up whatever encloses the crawl
space. Steel companies and house moving companies have neat little roller
pads to move the beam, and all sorts of jacks and levers, some hydraulically
assisted, to tuck it into place. A large rental place may have the tools
available, but the expertise is just as important. It is real easy to hurt
yourself with heavy stuff like this if you do something wrong with the
rigging, or do something in the wrong order. I've seen it done multiple
times, and I'd still hire it out. A house moving company is probably the
best bet for a small job, but a steel erection company might be able to tuck
you in between larger jobs if your schedule is flexible.
Of course, as a kid on the sites, I did see residential centerline beams
horsed into place by hand, using multiple scaffold racks and 2x10s as slider
rails, set down in the foundation hole, with lots of guys and maybe a
come-along providing the motive power. It went a lot faster when the local
steel company started using the trucks with the mini-gantry crane, and they
could get close to the foundation corner and provide most of the lift.
aem sends....
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Posted by Steve B on May 24, 2006, 12:44 am
> Retrofitting an existing house? Building yourself with a beam you had
> sitting around? More details, please. Why can't you use a crane?
I think it's because he can't get the crane in the basement.
Heeeeeeeere's yer sign.
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Posted by on May 24, 2006, 1:57 am
>I need to install a steel beam that is about 20' long. The beam is a
>w10x30 so that make it 600 pounds. The beam will be supporting the
>main floor (installed in the basement). How does one lift such a beam
>in place? Obviously I cannot use a crane. Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>Richard
Lots of guys, one end at a time. We used a couple sets of scaffold
bucks to act as a fulcrum to get it started in the first pocket and
then to hold it up when we had it lined up at the other end. I used a
floor jack on the scaffolding to hold it at the right height while we
slid it in the second pocket. It took a couple hours but we were going
slow and keeping things blocked up as we went so nobody got killed.
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