Originally Posted by gmfoster How do you figure it was overkill?
Garry |
Overkill, compared to the usual engine hoist + yard debris trialer that so many hobbiests use!
No doubt there was $ome real rea$on for u$ing a crane instead of ju$t getting a rough terrain forklift to drive it around to the back -- a wall or fence or $ome other ob$tacle we can't $ee from the picture$.
Of course, that crane can't be cheap!! All those $'s add up!
Three days ago, I was within a hair of purchasing an old Cincinnati mill, a 8000 pound beast in good mechanical condiiton, for only $500. It also came with 30 pieces of 40-taper tooling! So good deal, right? But when I started to price out moving it, it was was going to be too expensive. The riggers wanted about $195/hour for three guys, a forklift and a flatbed. It's a fair price, but they charge from "port to port" and it would have taken them 6-8 hours to move it 26 miles!
"Port to port" means the clock starts when they leave their truckyard in the morning and stops only when they return to the truckyard after your job. (Traffic and lunchtime are on you)
Of course, a 96kip crane is going to be a lot more than $195/hr. Maybe he has a friend in the business or the truckyard is close to his house?
In any case, I wouldn't have done it that way. Yes, I would have lifted the house up and drove the forklift across the now bare floor to the back of the house.
