Insert 5 - Metalfire Optimum - arrived

In Metalfire Optimum you can read about engineer Jansen's lust for a Metalfire Optimum insert wood stove.  After much deliberation an Optimum 700 was ordered, and it has arrived. The delivery service did not have a cart to lift the pellet up 10 cm, so they could not lift it up to the porch in front of the front door, which is 10 cm above street level. So, it was left next to the porch, at street level.

Grmbll. What to do.

Engineer Jansen decided to buy coaster wheels that can carry this 200 kg heavy piece of equipment, and use some steel profiles to devise sort of a cart. The wheels can carry 650 kg divided among 4.

Well, it may look easy, but it cost all day, and given the engineer's condition it was rather exhausting.

1. Move the pallet

Here it is next to the front door, street level, note the 10 cm step up:

Wheels attached:

Rotated 90º, in line with the front door:

Rotated 90º, in line with the front door, wheels removed:

2. Now remove the stove from the pallet:

Attach steel profiles with wheels:

The profiles are 2 cm above the wooden beams the stove is on:

Tighten these bolts and you lift the stove:

Screws!

Well, that was the theory. The stove is placed on two wooden beams, but those beams are screwed onto the pallet with 4 long screws. The points of those screws were bent, as the cart they used bent them. So, engineer Jansen could not unscrew them. Bending the screws back did not work, not enough room.  Drilling the head of the screws off sis not work either, it has cost the engineer one of his drill bits. Could not saw off the ends of the screws either. 

Decided to drill holes around the screws, and force lift the beams off of the pallet, then use the iron saw to saw through the screws.  That worked.

Here the contraption stands 2 cm above the pallet after tightening the bolts:

And wheeled it off:

3. Inside!