Moving a heavy concrete lid by kicking a pipe under it - GIF

A nice implementation of the kick-a-pipe-under-it technique, by someone who has obviously done this before. That lifter is cool too.

Watch his left foot.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...088#post120617
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...3231#post77683
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...5276#post81494
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...3100#post98061
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...349#post110233
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...380#post116689

My wife is always chiding me for using the toe of my boot to support something. I just tell her I thought that was why they put the steel in the toes.
I have more problems with the steel shank breaking out of the soles than wearing the leather off the tops of them.

Interesting. I've done the same thing with steel and non steel boot toes without considering it, either at the time, or afterwards.

Now you've got me thinking about shoe add-ons as tools.

Brain Power!

I think the lifting tool is called a pick ax.

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Interesting. I've done the same thing with steel and non steel boot toes without considering it, either at the time, or afterwards.

Now you've got me thinking about shoe add-ons as tools.

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Years ago while working in a heavy industry fab shop we had curved steel plates that strapped over the outside of our boots I think they were called metatarsal plates they protected the foot all the way to the leg in front

Dirt Trackers use "Shoes". Old school were Steel plate formed over the toe and a bottom plate, lashed onto the boot that were worn typically on the left foot for circle track counter clockwise. Keeps an expensive boot from being shredded in a race or two. I think they might be using an aluminum version them in GP bike races now too but much lighter. I've got a poster somewhere of GP racers boot shredded on a 6 cylinder 250 Honda (RC166 iirc) scrubbing a burm at speed, but can't remember who was riding....Mike Hailwood maybe or someone that vintage.

Amazing what shows up for me sometimes with some of these posts, Jon...Thanks got a grin from the memory banks.

PJ

The guy lifting the slab definitely knew what he was doing!

Ralph

New master of the pipe-kicking arts. If ever a GIF needed music! It looks he's doing a square dancing version of the moonwalk.

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I would say he has done that before....a time or 2.....

The evil immature part of me briefly thought - "I wanna see the blooper reels", y'know, of him learning this.... Then I thought: hey, me -- that wasn't nice. Respect the man's skill. And I felt better about myself again. (But you know you thought the same thing, dintcha.)

I gotta admit - that's a pretty dang efficient way to do the job! Hats off.

I love how those pipes are stacked too. And how the forks are pushed up to the pile to act as little roader ramps. Gotta find the original vid of this, at very least to hear his keys jingling in time to his pipe kicking.

Chuck Norris would like that speedy footwork.

anyone got footage of the method for moving mills or similar machines on pipe rollers? I was trying to explain the concept to someone, and failed miserably.

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anyone got footage of the method for moving mills or similar machines on pipe rollers? I was trying to explain the concept to someone, and failed miserably.

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I know what you mean by getting the point accross. I was working at a small subdivision and a cottage was to be moved down hill but it was too dangerous for the mobile crane or big excavator. A team of guys standing around discussing a scenareo. I piped up (eaves dropping while planting shrubs nearby) and put in my twopence worth at which a loud rawkus laughter burst forth from the small crowd. The Dr owner exclaimed "that's not as stupid as it sounds" & they proceeded to lift the 7.5 metre by 12 metre cottage on to the telegraph poles and rolled the cottage down hill while the mobile crane balanced it and backhoe replaced the logs from the back to the front until it was in lifting position & the crane was stable on a level benching to achieve the lift on to the concrete block base.
cheers

Slight side step to the original post. When I bought our place 25 years back, there were two prefab concrete tanks supplying the water to the home. Early on we had a strange awful smell in the water. Upon checking I found a dead frog floating therein and removed it. The problem to fix was the concrete lid was not well formed ot designed causing me to almost drop it into the tank. The lid shape was supposed to prevent such but it had only one grab/lift loop. also compost like dust/soil had formed (from droppings from a vanilla pod tree flowers, leaves & fruit) and worked its way into the crevasses between lid and tank making it difficult to remove.

Something had to be done (& removing the tree alone would not solve it but i should have done that in hind sight & not listened to squarks from she who must be obeyed). I found only one piece of gal pipe to suit (grab/lift loop was too small) but enabled me to lever the lid with some control to not drop the lot into the tank.

Here is the pic.

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cheers: I'm back to culling for the big move.