How do you get a 35' 3" roll of carpet upstairs?
And you don't have any help? With a little 'Yankee Ingenuity'...
It took about an hour to construct the ramps and supports and all of 10 minutes to get the carpet up there once I started moving it. I'm not sure what that roll weighs, but it's 423 square feet of nice thick Karastan carpet. Plenty heavy!
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At my age and being a kripple I just hire youngins' for that kind of work. Since I can't look up holding heavy things over head is a recipe for being brained by what ever object happens to be overhead.
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mike55: 31152586862491/comments/31152648628763
Lol, apparently you've never carried a roll of carpet. That thing weighs 100s of lbs. Prob over 300. Carpet is HEAVY.
he said in HIS Last post with pictures that it took " all of 10 minutes to get the carpet up there once I started moving it."
SO I'm SAYING ( IF HE COULD MOVE IT, as HE posted ) ,,, HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SHOVE IT UP TO THE LANDING ,,, is that so hard to understand ??????????
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$500 worth of wood to move $200 worth of carpet. 😋
If it works, it isn't stupid!
Good job.
Merc
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redhawkk480: 31152586862491/comments/31152636342555
your way sure worked and I don't know how heavy that roll is but you got it in the house , so why not just lean the roll up against the landing and push it up , might have need a push stick to help get it up all the way but seems that would have been quicker and easier
Because I was by myself and the roll is probably pushin' 400 pounds. Weren't gonna be no 'pushin' it up'!
I got it in the house using a carpet cart and a hand truck.
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redhawkk480: 31152586862491/comments/31152641394971
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11284547#Comment_11284547
he said in HIS Last post with pictures that it took " all of 10 minutes to get the carpet up there once I started moving it."
SO I'm SAYING ( IF HE COULD MOVE IT, as HE posted ) ,,, HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SHOVE IT UP TO THE LANDING ,,, is that so hard to understand ??????????
Let me clarify... Once I had it at the bottom of the ramps and started pushing it up said ramps it took all of ten minutes.
It'd damn near be worth it to me to haul it back down stairs and buy you a plane ticket up here so I could sit and drink a 12 pack of beer while you show me how it's done! LOL!
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So many "I'd of dun it this away" and "why didn't you do this instead" for as much as a lot of you guys demean FB and the users of it, you sure seem to do the same stuff you beeyach about here... Why not just congratulate the man for getting it done on his own? A little kidding is par for the course here in this forum, but the know it all attitude is really a turn off to post asking for help or showing how a problem was solved... NeoBlackdog you sir did great! The heck with all the naysayers, imho... rant off.
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Gent showed me how they would raise logs when building a cabin. Two sloped posts like you used for the carpet. Attach end of the rope to the top of the landing slip the end of the rope under the middle of the load, bring it back to the top of the landing, pull. Acts as a compound pulley to roll the load up the sloping posts.
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chme: 31152586862491/comments/31152667729691
Gent showed me how they would raise logs when building a cabin. Two sloped posts like you used for the carpet. Attach end of the rope to the top of the landing slip the end of the rope under the middle of the load, bring it back to the top of the landing, pull. Acts as a compound pulley to roll the load up the sloping posts.
That was one of my original ideas but I didn't have what I felt were good enough anchor points at the top.
I would have used doubled up 2x4's as a spreader to attach the two rope ends and a single point in the middle of that to attach a block and tackle.
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Good Job!
Bottomline its up and where you wanted it to be..............................You are the man!
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Mercury: 31152586862491/comments/31152666185371
$500 worth of wood to move $200 worth of carpet. 😋
If it works, it isn't stupid!
Good job.
Merc
Hey.............the wood used might have been scrap laying around.
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Sam06: 31152586862491/comments/31152643394203
Good Job!
Bottomline its up and where you wanted it to be..............................You are the man!
+10!!!
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mohawk600: 31152586862491/comments/31152668256411
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11284567#Comment_11284567
Hey.............the wood used might have been scrap laying around.
Well, I did have the 2x6 left over from another project but I did have to hit Homies for the 2x4's and oak dowels. I think I'm into it for about $30.
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NeoBlackdog: 31152586862491/comments/31152621885467
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11284558#Comment_11284558
Let me clarify... Once I had it at the bottom of the ramps and started pushing it up said ramps it took all of ten minutes.
It'd damn near be worth it to me to haul it back down stairs and buy you a plane ticket up here so I could sit and drink a 12 pack of beer while you show me how it's done! LOL!
well IF I was back in my 20's , 30's , 40's maybe even into my 50's I would have taken you up on your bet in a heart beat , but now in my mid 60's I know there is no way i could heave that up there and i did say in my 1st post ( your way sure worked ) but then others started jumping on my backside about what or how i posted and I was in a pissed off mood any way so ya I got a little annoyed and it probably showed in how I posted, sorry about that
and to be clear when I read your post you never said a darn thing about needing a cart to get the roll into the room ,, you wrote ( "It took about an hour to construct the ramps and supports and all of 10 minutes to get the carpet up there once I started moving it." ) which to me makes it sound like you just carried the roll into the room and started it up your home made ramp , IF I would have known you needed a cart to get the roll into the house , then I would have known there was no way, you where just going to heave the roll up onto the upstairs landing ,, it was your own omission in your story, that brought about the replies I posted
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